The Central government recently announced that it intends to amend the Copyright Act, recommending a slew of proposals that seek to update and modernise the statute. Among the proposals is the introduction of provisions penalising the circumvention ..
Given the complexity involved in conceptualising and implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), it is becoming clearer by the day that the scheme cannot be introduced by April 1, 2010, as originally proposed. An overwhelming majority of States ha ..
Judges have every right to be a little irritated when the orders of their courts are ignored be it by individuals or by organs of the state. They are currently irritated by the failure of 'the agencies' to recover a number of missing persons – ..
Senior Judge of High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury recently attended a seminar on "Repression on the media and political violence: state responsibility and democratic culture" held at BRAC ..
The Supreme Court's judgment in the NRO case has ruffled quite a few feathers. The governing PPP, in particular the president's men, are up in arms given not only the political embarrassment caused by the apex court's verdict as well as the revelati ..
Introduction The Indian Succession Act came into operation on 30th September 1925 and it seeks to consolidate all Indian Laws relating to succession. It has no retrospective operation and is applicable to ..
This past week, attendance at cinema houses has suffered because of two stories that have repeatedly been shown on television. The star of the first is the 86-year old Congress Party politician,Narain Dutt Tiwari, who has been Chief Minister of two s ..
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