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Coalition Government & Good Governance
BY Karan Gupta. Political obligation is a very important and determinative factor in the functioning and sustenance of a government. This concept becomes all the more important when we look at it in the context of a coalition government. India is a country fraught with political complexities of various kinds. Out of these various problems,…
Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Inroads
By Bharti Garg The discussion surrounding the dictionary definition of the word âdisabilityââthe absence of competent physical, intelligent, or moral power, means, fitness, and the likeâsuggests it would be wide enough to encompass the entire humankind, given the old adage that âno one is perfectâ and each person possesses some variant of a limitation. However,…
Uniform Civil Code in Indiaâs Enlightened Constitution
By CBP Srivastava, President, Centre for Applied Research in Governance (CARG), Delhi In a democratic, constitutionalist, and enlightened constitution like ours, the state is obliged to treat its citizens equally, irrespective of religion, race, caste, sex, etc., in order to ensure that all citizens get uniform rights. However, whether such a uniformity is to be…
Triple Talaq: Is It Doing Away With It Really Going to Empower Muslim Women or Is Maintenance the Bigger Issue?
By Bharti Garg There has probably been no concern as grave in the human rights crusade as the empowerment of women, and certainly no other failure as persistent as the one to successfully address the same. Long gone are the years when the role of woman was expected only within the precincts of the house,…
Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014: A Brief Relook
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam The President of India gave assent to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill, 2013 on March 1st, 2014. Subsequently, it was published in the Official Gazette for general information as the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014 (Act No. 6 of 2014). The main object of the Act is to provide for the…
Employment Law – Discrimination Against Females: UK Experience, Can It Be Followed in India
By C.S. Raghu Raman, Asst. Professor, Law Faculty at AP & Telangana Judicial Academy, Hyderabad Employment Law – Discrimination Against Females: UK Experience and its Applicability in India By C.S. Raghu Raman, Assistant Professor, Law Faculty at AP & Telangana Judicial Academy, Hyderabad An employer may employ or may not employ anyone for whatever reason…
Real Estate & GST: Are We Heading Towards New Areas of Litigation
By Altamush Zafar, CA at PL Tandon & Co. GST is finally going to become a reality with all the Acts and important rules being approved by the GST Council in its 15th Meeting. GST is conceived to be adopted from the existing tax laws, especially a lot of similarities can be drawn from current…
Judicial Overactivism
An opinion of H.G. Kulkarni, Principal, D.G.B. Dayanand Law College, Solapur Plato was of the view that the ideal form of Government is one in which there is concentration of Governmental power. Bodin, a modern political thinker, suggested that the function of administering justice should be entrusted to an independent authority. He pleaded for the…
D-Day and the Role of Indian Men in Arms
By Anoop Bose, Advocate, Supreme Court of India India was the undisputed âJewel in the Crown of the British Empireâ. In 1901, George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (better known as âLord Curzonâ), the prodigious Eton-educated Viceroy of India and âan imperialist heart and soulâ aptly pontificated, âAs long as we rule India,…
Necessity of Censorship in the Age of Internet
By Bharti Garg The advent of internet has completely changed the way people interact and work in daily lives and brought the entire globe on one’s palms. Gradually, even the governments have started incorporating the facility of internet in their operations and dissemination of public services, which has ushered in the vibrancy of a participative…