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A BOY BREATHES HIS LAST - literally   Those readers who have suffered from asthma will empathise with this 10-year old boy, more than others will. Having been a victim for over 40 years, this writer knows all to..

Online Revenge Porn means that when there are relationship break ups, then either party puts up nude pictures of the other or videos of their intimate moments on social networking media, blogs and other websites. Online Revenge Porn is on the rise world over with the advent of an open arena of the internet. Most online porn in India is amateur porn or revenge por..

Some months back, Judge Allen Davis, presiding in a court in Ohio (USA), told the man seated in front of him, “No, you are still deceased.” Donald Eugene Miller Jr, was in court wanting to be told that he was alive. According to the judge, Miller was as dead as a dodo, “...in law.” This author has always maintained that though people might..

Crooks clog the courts, denying the honest the time to have matters heard   Friday afternoon. It was getting late in the Thane district court. The next day was a holiday. The opposing advocate had not turned up. We asked the judge to consider our situation, comin..

Recently there has been a spate of discussions in the media on the upcoming Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage Law (IrBM) (Marriage Laws Amendment). Some important highlights of the proposed bill are –   1. Divorce can now be filed as a ‘No-fault Divorce’ stating tha..

What are the similarities between dumpers & pizza deliveries? - Both can kill   Behram Doctor, a Chartered Account, was a dear friend and a very decent human being. On the 29th/sup..

ArvindDatar and Moneylife had a wonderful session at the Yacht Club some time back. It was preceded by the launch of Kanga and Palkhiwalla’s latest edition of the Income Tax tome, Datar editing.   ..

This may be a wonderful pun concerning the articles that Moneylife readers have been getting in the past few months. While the idiom really means ‘catching crooks’, in this case the Bombay High Court has confirmed what we have been saying. That is how the law has caught up with us. p class="MsoNormal" ..

Arjuna (Fictional Character): Krishna, why is there such a lot of confusion over on the colour of money? Supreme Court, Government and citizens are all busy in the discussion of the law pertaining to Black money. Let’s discuss its different aspects.       p style="text-align:ju..

A case for prosecuting the prosecutors   Regular readers of Moneylife, and others, will recall an article called “Who will guard the Guardians?” …..”Quis custodiet ipsos custodes”.In that..

DO I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE NOT MADE A MONKEY OF? Yes. You do...............   p style="text..

The court’s imagination sometimes makes the crime fit the punishment instead of the converse   Great cities are built on river banks. Delhi is on the Yamuna; Kolkata on the Hoogly; Varanasi on the Ganges. New York has its Hudson, Paris its Seine. But the one coupl..

A woman walks into a police station with a complaint. She has, she claims, been cheated. Cheated of Rs. 25 lakhs! And she wants her money back. And she wants the police to help her.   span lang="EN-G..

COUNTY CODE TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN (ccTLDs) ARE NOT PROPERTY SUBJECT TO ATTACHMENT   The law is very sparse on this subject and that the precedents are countable in fingers all over the world.  For a better appreciative, it is a need to be placed the ba..

A signboard says, “MEN AT WORK”. An article declares, “Sexual Harassment at Work”. The worst is the combination of both ……Men at work indulging in Sexual Harassment at work.Sexual harassment of women prevailsat all times and at every nook and corner? p class="MsoNormal" style=..