Opinion

Will PM Modi be able to deflect farmers’ anger?

23 Sep 2020 07:17 AM IST

The politics regarding the three Ordinances have taken over Parliament’s Monsoon Session. As it is the session was a truncated one, to be held during the pandemic. And it was not without risk with 25 MPs and 56 of the staff testing positive. There were elaborate arrangements made, especially keeping

Covid-19 pandemic is a big wake-up call for us

23 Sep 2020 07:17 AM IST

India’s situation is not unique; the same ills can be seen across the globe. It is a larger pandemic waiting to explode. Let’s take the coronavirus crisis as nature’s warning to set our development model right.

A jailbird’s right: Understanding India’s legal paradigm apropos of rights of the captured midst Covid-19

23 Sep 2020 07:11 AM IST

The Model Prison Manual, 2016 scrutinises the guidelines for governing the administration of prisoners; these guidelines are framed to maintain the conformity in rules and norms for the prisoners throughout the country.

UN Security Council on protecting people with disabilities in humanitarian emergencies and armed conflicts

23 Sep 2020 07:08 AM IST

The children with any kind of disability also face problems in attending schools, unlike other children present there. For example, in the case of armed groups’ attack on various communities in the Central African Republic in the year 2013 to be particular, it was documented that at least 96 of

Competition law and state aid for aviation sector

23 Sep 2020 07:03 AM IST

Does the sector need specific regulator or general regulator? A bird’s eye view.

Landmark reforms in farm sector

22 Sep 2020 08:12 AM IST

At the outset it must be said that the three farm bills passed by the Rajya Sabha this week mark a watershed moment for agriculture in India. For these have the potential to reform the system by putting money in the hands of farmers— especially the small and marginal farmers

Time to set up Higher Education Commission of India without delay

22 Sep 2020 08:11 AM IST

If the implementation of critical regulatory reforms does not receive top priority, then it is going to adversely affect all other reforms, besides creating uncertainty and a sense of slackness from top to bottom.

State police versus CBI: A long time dissidence

22 Sep 2020 08:09 AM IST

State Police and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) both distinctive entities that were regulated through the Police Act, 1861, and the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 respectively. State Police falls within the subject of the state government due to which different states have their own way of regulation of

Covid warrants increased acceptance of digital and electronic signatures

22 Sep 2020 08:06 AM IST

Electronic transactions have become a part of everyone’s lives in this era, owing to the massive and large-scale utilisation of technology in business, trade and commerce.

Making Things Happen: Covid and Mumbai Municipal Corporation

22 Sep 2020 07:57 AM IST

Greater emphasis was laid on testing. Arrangements were made to ensure that results of the tests were made available within twenty- four hours. Mumbai became the only city in the country where all test reports would come within this period without exception. Mumbai has been in the news for all

Footpath vendors, unemployed youth, small and medium entrepreneurs in deep crisis

22 Sep 2020 07:52 AM IST

Around 12 crore people have lost their jobs and means of livelihood. Waive loan, support the unemployed.

Regional universities and challenges before new education policy

21 Sep 2020 09:43 AM IST

The current system of higher education in India has become dysfunctional especially in the regional universities. The new National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) has outlined a new roadmap for complete revamping and restructuring of the higher education system in India. Two basic institutional changes recommended for the universities are complete