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The Quest for Justice for Women and Child
By Dr. P. Sailaja Man and woman are two halves of humanity none of the two can reach its highest creative excellence without cooperation of the other. Even in the new millennium, the status of women has not improved significantly. The world today is said to be controlled by money, power and influence. Most of…
Interviewing Deepak Dhawan
Deepak Dhawan — Executive Director, Corporate Affairs & Law, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. On a sunny winter afternoon, Ankita Goyal of Lawz gets him to say a few words on his favourite subject — Law. Deepak Dhawan is working with Indian Oil Corporation for last 30 years and is presently posted in Corporate Office, New…
Swami Vivekananda and Gujarat
By Anoop Bose “Swami Vivekananda was one of those persons, who belonged to our ancient culture, knit the country together and inspired a new life into the people and awake the country from slumber. His voice was not momentary, although it was suited for the occasion, and rose from the heart of India. During the…
The Coal Scam Verdict
By Trishala Kulkarni The allocation of coal blocks for the period 1993 to 2010 is the subject matter of this group of writ petitions filed in the nature of Public Interest Litigation, principally one by Manohar Lal Sharma and the other by the Common Cause. Grounds raised against the allocation The first of these writ…
Corporate Financing through establishment of Islamic financial institutions in India
By Rajat Mittal Islamic Finance: The Pull of the Mainstream Charging and paying of interest dominate the global financial market. Banking and financing in the conventional system is a virtual impossibility without interest because the incentive to invest or borrow money is generally driven by the potential profit or loss in the form of interest.…
Victimisation of the Elderly
By Udai Khanna On 6th June, 2013, almost all national dailies in India carried a headline to the tune that “Chained by sons, 93-year-old forced to live on terrace of his own house”. The act, despised by all, made it to news channel debates, but finally ended in rock bottom. What the 93 year old…
The Patent (Amendment) Act, 2005 — India’s New Patent Regime
By Manjunatha N G Patent refers to “a government authority to an individual or organization conferring a right or title, especially the sole right to make or use or sell some invention. It is a monopoly or elite right granted by State in errand of an inventor in reverence of an invention. It refers to…
Sardar Patel – The Great Captain with a mind of Steel and Vision
By Anoop Bose On 15th December, 1950 at 9.37 a. m., Bharat Ratna Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel breathed his last after a massive cardiac arrest within the palatial confines of the iconic Birla House in Mumbai. The “Iron Man of India” or “Bismarck of India”, who was one of the principal architects of the Republic…
“Promise” made not by Debtor but by a “Third Person” to pay a “Time Barred Debt”
By C.S. Raghu Raman The facts placed before Lord Justice P. K. Misra in Dilip Chandra were really interesting. Plaintiff-Bank submitted that Respondent-Defendant’s mother had an overdraft with the bank and that after her death, the defendant had paid Rs. 500 to the bank and also gave a letter dt. 29-12-1981 to the bank that…
The Rights of the Schedule Tribes vis-a-vis Forest Laws
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam Tribe is a social gathering of a typical type of people having vast differentiations with the rural and urban people. Tribes in the traditional sense are backward people who live aloof from the rest of people. Lewies Gillin and Phillip Gillin have said “Tribe is a group of local communities living…