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Need To Evolve Laws In Order To Counter “Groundwater Anarchy”
INTRODUCTION There is no way that one can envisage a life without water. So it seems ironical when the State guarantees “right to life” without providing “right to water”. It is a known fact that groundwater is the purest form of water and is relied upon by people in India to satiate their thirst. India […] -
Pornography, Women and Morality
Pornography is the collection of pictures, writing, or other material that is sexually explicit and sometimes equates sex with power and violence. This definition would be enough to understand the meaning of the word pornography but not its effects on the society and women, for this we need to know the position of women in […] -
The Need for Witness Protection Laws in India: A Necessity or a Luxury?
Across the country, the conviction rates for murder and rape are 10% and 12% respectively as a large number of witnesses turn hostile in court. In cases where there is a difference in power and status between the victim and the accused, there is a huge possibility of the victim and the witnesses being threatened […] -
A Critique on Anti-Rape Laws in India
The traditional view of rape regarded women as the property of men, and any act of sexual violence committed against her was considered to be the defilement of the property of another man. This is the root cause of the thousands of incidents of sexual violence that go unreported. Such a perspective to rape carries […] -
Excess VAT & Service Tax: Is ‘Dining Out’ Another Victim of the Revenue Department?
The government would use any trick to get more revenue.[i] It has been noticed in the recent past that restaurants all over India have been charging Value Added Tax (“VAT”) on 100% of the total bill while the government has turned a blind eye to restaurants collecting taxes in excess of what has been authorized […] -
Watching Television Through Human Cognition
As the criminologists do extensive studies upon the characteristics of a juvenile, it boils down to a point where the psychology of the child is moulded much often by the surroundings. The advent of television has contributed with immense information with no distinction made amongst the audience. The fact elucidated by Hon’ble judges in landmark […] -
Non-Conventional Trademarks- Analysis of the Indian Structure
What is a Trademark? Trade mark is a branch of Intellectual Property Right. A trademark includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the […] -
Dispute Settlement in International Competition Law
After liberalisation of markets, the next barrier to international trade lies in the internal working of markets. Hence, the importance of competition law has risen in the global conscience and has led to a point where most countries have competition law principles in some form or other in their legal framework. While most countries try […] -
One India One Law
INTRODUCTION- The historical fact is when the Constitution of India was been drafted and we were having Eminent personalities like Dr.Rajendra Prasad, Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Dr.Ambedkar etc. all present in the constituent assembly, Dr.Ambedkar proposed in Art.44[i] that state shall endeavour to have Uniform civil code, nobody in 1948-49 regarded this as a communal […] -
Judicial Office as Public Service: Need for Cultural Research and Innovation
There is a need to look at the judicial system in India on the basis of the fundamental rights of socio-economic justice in the context of fundamental right to culture given in Article 29 of the Constitution of India. This alone will make the judiciary into a Constitutional Institution of public service and take it […]