Tag: India
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U.S. funds Pakistan’s Projects: A setback to India’s Relations with the Western Hegemony
Yashika Jain, National Law University, Delhi. A recent move by the US to mobilise funds for the two major dams that Pakistan has been striving to build has left India unsettled. U.S. hailed this infrastructure project as Pakistan’s “smartest choice” for economic development and has pledged to extend its support in funding the same. The two dams, Diamer-Bhasha Dam…
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Debating the Mid-Day Meal Scheme
By Maithili Parikh, Government Law College, Mumbai. With the twin objectives of improving the health and education of the underprivileged, India has embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid-day meals (MDM) in government and government assisted primary schools, starting from 2004. However despite the broad-based efforts of the Central Government for more than a decade and…
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The raising dissent against Capital Punishment
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The changing global political dynamics has brought India and Germany closer. Recently, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany visited India along with her delegation. Progress was made on various fronts, however the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, could not culminate successfully even though the negotiations have been on since…
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Towards Inclusion
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The United Nations was established with the objective of maintaining peace in the world and to prevent any further outbreak of war. To give shape to this objective, the Dumbarton proposal suggested establishment of an executive organ of limited membership whose prime responsibility would be to maintain…
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Child Rights in India: The Ground Reality
By Gautam Adusumalli, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University. Did you know that children constitute over a third of India’s 1.2 billion population, and that India has the largest population of children in the world? In fact, over 17% of the world’s children live in India, which means that every sixth child in the world today refers…
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Fazal Dad v State of Madhya Pradesh
By Hita M. Agarwal, WBNUJS, Kolkata. Here’s an interesting Power Point Presentation, prepared by our Research Intern, on one of the important cases related to Citizenship, i.e., Fazal Dad v State of Madhya Pradesh. Read here
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India’s ties with its southern neighbour strengthens: RBI’s Currency Swap Agreement with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
By Sudipta Purkayastha, Gujarat National Law University. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, since practically the beginning of time, stressed on the importance of maintaining friendly relations with other states, especially those in South Asia. This March, he lived upto his motto once again, by visiting Sri Lanka for talks aiming at improving bilateral ties between…
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The Millennium Development Goals and India: How far along have we come?
By Hita M. Agarwal, WBNUJS, Kolkata. The millennium year, 2000, or Y2K, as it has come to be known in popular culture – marked an occasion of renewal of hope and aspirations. A new date, meant to many, a chance to shed the burden of the past and aspire for a better future. How then, could…
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India’s Abstention at UNHRC: A shift without compassion
By Mohammad Anas, Aligarh Muslim University, Kerala. India’s so-called neutrality from voting in the recent UN Human Rights Council meeting on the question of forwarding the “Davis Report” to International Criminal Court has created an instant outrage among the National Councils and people all over the world. Various assumptions are being made as to why India did…
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A step closer towards being a “Superpower”: China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
By Sudipta Purkayastha, Gujarat National Law University. When one talks of financial prowess in the international arena, could it ever be possible to not think instantly of the Asia of this new era? With the West having dominated this field till the very recent past, the Asian countries are now formally contending for the top spot with…