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A driver working under any establishment or process or factory in which the employed persons are more than 10, will be entitled to get the benefits of Employees’ State Insurance and a driver working under any establishment or factory in which the employed persons are more than 20, will also get the benefits of Provident fund. p style="text-align: justi..

Legal fraternity celebrates the centenary of a humane judge of this century, Rtd. Justice V R Krishna Iyer. Justice Krishna Iyer, is well known in the legal field, for his remarkable contribution to the Indian Judiciary, particularly, for his role in the Supreme Court, during the tenure from 1973 to 1980, during which he officiated the seat of a Judge of the highest c..

When an extra territorial wrong is committed, which can be the forum for adjudicating the dispute? This is no more a novel issue, but still debatable. In domestic torts, the law is settled that a wrong is done either where the wrongful act takes place or where its effects are experienced​[1]. A suit for compensation with ..

Female Genital Mutilation comprises of all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, for non-medical reasons. The practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers.  FGM can lead to severe bleeding, pain, complications during childbirth, recurring infections, infertility, etc. ..

In a landmark judgment with far reaching consequences which shall always be a trendsetter in the time to come, the Bombay High Court in Neelam Choudhary V/s 1. Union of India 2. State of Maharashtra 3. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, through its Secretary in Writ Petition No. 6430 of 2018 delivered on June 19, 2018 while refusing a plea seeking termination of p..

Central Water Commission (CWC) maintains the National Register of Large Dams (NRLD) based on information received from the State Governments. As per NRLD, there are 5264 large dams completed and 437 large dams under construction in India. Number of dam failures reported in India is 36. The State wise details of completed large dams, under construction large dams and..

  As per section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, any individual who is desirous of availing any subsidy, benefit or service for which the expenditure is incurred from the Consolidated Fund of India, shall require to furnish proof of possession of Aadhaar..

The Central Educational Institutions(CEIs) (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 provides for the reservation of students belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SCs)/ Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) of citizens to the extent of 15%, 7.5% and 27%, respectively, in Central Educational Institutions (CEIs) established, maintained or aided by the Centra..

Maintenance of law and order and providing safety and security to all citizens is primarily the subject matter of State Governments concerned. The framework of existing laws such as Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code etc. is considered adequate to provide for safety and security to all citizens, including RTI activists...

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,..