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The Central Government has recently promulgated an ordinance amending the sentencing stipulated for the rape of a woman provided for in IPC; and qua the ordinance, the following punishment scheme has been brought into effect: 1. For rape of women above 16 years of age, minimum punishment is increased from 7 years to 10 years in p..

Section 10 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 provides than all agreements are contracts if they are made by free consent of the parties competent to contract, for a lawful consideration, with a lawful object, and are not hereby expressly declared to be void. So we would now break down all the necessary conditio..

Cabinet approves the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018    The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) ..

Background of Holiday Laws Holiday Law is the brainchild of the European countries and evolved in the late 1970s. As the time for jolly Christmas was at the threshold, Mr. Jarvis, in 1969, sat alone in the Bar of the Hotel Krone in Morlialp eating his dry nutcakes, enduring the yodelling of the local man in his..

Department of Food and Public Distribution is implementing a scheme on ‘End-to-End Computerization of TPDS Operations’. Component-I of the scheme comprises digitization of ration cards/beneficiary other database, online allocation, computerization of supply chain management, setting up of transparency portal and grievance redressal mechanisms. Under the ..

The Second National Judicial Pay Commission is constituted by virtue of the order dt: 09-05-2017 of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, followed by subsequent gazette resolution dt: 16-11-2017 by Dept. of Justice, Government of India. This Commission submitted interim report to the Supreme Court dt: 09-03-2018 proposing 30% of interim relief on existing basic pay,..

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018 for introduction in the Parliament. It is a part of the efforts of the Government to encourage institutional arbitration for settlement of disputes and make India a centre of robust Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism. ..

The policy on Strategic Partnerships in Defence Sector was promulgated on 31.05.2017 as Chapter-VII of Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 titled as “Revitalising Defence Industrial Ecosystem through Strategic Partnerships”. The Chapter was uploaded on Ministry of Defence website: https://www.mod.nic.in and came into effect immediately on its promul..

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It must be stated right at the outset that in a landmark judgment with far reaching consequences, the Supreme Court 3 Judge Bench in Tehseen S Poonawalla v Union of India and others in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 754 of 2016 dated July 17, 2018 comprising of CJI Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Dr DY Chandrachud recommended that the Parliament may create..

Cybersquatting is the registration, trafficking in, or use of a domain name that is either identical or confusingly similar to a distinctive trademark or is confusingly similar to or dilutive of a famous trademark. Cybersquatting occurs where one registers a domain name containing the trademark of another with the intent to profit ..

The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities){PoA} Act 1989 has already been amended vide its Amendment Act, 2015 enforced on 26.01.2016, with an objective to deliver greater justice to members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The amendments broadly relate to addition of several new offences of atrocities besi..

The provision of section 13(1)(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 as it presently exists is as follows: “13. Criminal misconduct by a public servant. (1) A public servant is said to commit the offence of criminal misconduct,- &hel..

India, owing to it's reserved and protective culture has been a country where we inherit cringing at the site or sound of anything that differs from 'Normal'. Another factor that largely contributes is the heavy population and the variety of people. Everyone has his/her own definition of 'Normal'. The educated has a more flexible a..

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 is an Act of the Parliament of India which seeks to protect home-buyers as well as help boost investments in the real estate industry. The Act establishes Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) in each state for regulation of the real estate sector and also acts as an adjudicating body for speedy dispute redres..