KEY TAKEAWAYS The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has taken suo moto cognizance in the matter of the new WhatsApp privacy policy. The CCI has asked the Director-General (DG) which is an investigation arm of CCI to make a detailed investigation ..
WHAT IS POSCO ACT? In order to deal with child sexual abuse cases, the Government has brought in a special law, namely, The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. This protective Act has come into force with effect from 14th N ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Parliament recently passed a bill called The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 This bill allows legal abortions by raising the limit from 20 weeks to now 24 weeks. The 24 weeks period to terminate pregnancy is ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS The case is in connection with a divorce case filed by the husband in Fangshan District Court situated in Beijing. The court ordered the husband to pay his wife compensation for the household work she did for 5 years during their courts ..
OVERVIEWThe Supreme Court heard a plea filed by the well-known geologist Dr. Sachchida Nand Pandey, by a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan. The plea claims that, "IITs are not following the transparent processes for r ..
Court/Tribunal Can Condone Delay Under Section 5 Limitation Act Even In The Absence Of A Formal Application: Supreme Court KEY TAKEAWAYSThe Supreme Court held that there is no bar to practice by the Court/Tribunal of its watchfulness to excuse delay ..
OVERVIEWA video has gone viral in which a Muslim teenage boy has been seen to be desecrating the premises and entering the temple to drink water from inside the temple in the Dasna area of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. Such event has struck a communa ..
GENERAL OVERVIEW On 16th March(Tuesday) Madras High Court asked the Tamil Nadu government to suspend Special DGP who is facing a sexual harassment allegation by a woman IPS Officer. Justice N Anand Venkatesh said, “It is a settled law that the ..
The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has formulated the scheme of National Action Plan for Senior Citizens (NAPSrC) with effect from 01.04.2020 which has a sub-scheme of Programmes for National Institute of Social Defence for Senior Citiz ..
The President of India, in exercise of the power conferred by clause (l) of Article 224 of the Constitution of India, appointed Shri Rajendra Badamikar, and Sushree Khazi Jayabunnisa Mohiuddin to be an Additional Judges of the Karnataka High Court f ..