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FCRA Amendments And COVID-19 Aid Drive: An Impact Based Analysis

2 June 2021 / Commercial Law, Blog, Covid-19, Featured Posts / Yashovardhan Agarwal and Neelabh Niket

In this article, the authors provide an impact based analysis of the recent Amendements of the FCRA, examining their effects on NGOs attempting to facilitate vaccination and ensure supply of medicines and essential commodities. In doing so, the authors also attempt to to bring out how the amended FCRA could be used as a legislative tool to keep a check on the PM CARES Fund.

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Introducing Wet Markets Regulation In India: An Effort To Prevent Zoonotic Diseases and Curb Illegal Wildlife Trade

22 May 2021 / Wildlife Law, Blog, Featured Posts, Healthcare / Manohar Samal

Looking at one of the key causes of the initiation and spread of COVID-19, the wet markets, this article advocates the introduction of Wet Markets Regulation in Indian Law.

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Analysing Sexual Assault As A Spectrum

15 May 2021 / Criminal Law, Blog, Comparative Law, Featured Posts / Tushar Anand

In this post, the author attempts to bring out a narrative for how sexual assault should ideally looked at from a legal lense in India. In doing so, he looks at the existing position of Sexual Assault, examines the Candian jurisdiction’s position in this regard and reasons out as to why the same is not suitable for India, and makes recommendations to the sexual assault law, calling for legislative inclusivity.

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Right to Abortion in the light of Right to Privacy

12 May 2021 / Fundamental Rights, Blog, Featured Posts, Privacy / Zuba Parvez Bubere

In this post, the author attempts to highlight the relationship between a woman’s prerogative to make decisions about her health and body and the fundamental right to privacy. In doing so, she analyses the jurisprudential foundations of the right to abortion in detail, highlighting some key judgments along the way.

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Manual Scavenging: Dignity Down The Drain

7 May 2021 / Human Rights, Blog, Featured Posts, Fundamental Rights / Parnika Goswami and Vrinda Nargas

In this post, the authors explore the perils and the caste-based reality of the practice of manual scavenging. In doing so, the authors point out defects in the current legal regime as well as the proposed amendment, whilst also exploring the auxiliary issues attached with the practice.

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Is Privacy Sacred? Critically Analysing the Traceability Rule

3 May 2021 / Privacy, Blog, Featured Posts, Information Technology Act, Technology Law / Naina Bora

In this post, the author aims to analyse the traceability rule under the recently introduced Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 and the possible misuse of this tool of surveillance.

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i-AID Governance

29 April 2021 / Artificial Intelligence, Anti-Corruption, Blog, Featured Posts, Technology Law / Tanya Ganguli

In this post, the author talks about turning the tide on corruption in India with predictive governance policing and building a real time government auditing framework through the use of Artificial Intelligence.

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Public Private Partnerships in the Urban Water Supply Sector: Institutional Issues and Solutions

19 April 2021 / Public Private Partnership, Blog, Featured Posts, Public Policy / Shiksha Srivastava

In this post, the author aims to highlight the issues concerning urban water supply in India, and further analyze the working of PPP models in the water supply sector. In doing so, the author would also focus upon the regulation of PPPs in India, and argue for the enactment of a specific PPP legislation.

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Enabling Alternate Resolution For Our Very Own Countrymen: ADR Under Farm Laws, 2020

11 April 2021 / Dispute Resolution, Blog, Contract, Featured Posts / Trisha Shreyashi

In this post, the author, through a doctrinal and reform-oriented approach, explores the means of more effective means of inclusion of ADR for resolution of disputes under the recent farm law enactments by the Union Legislature. The author does so by critically analysing the consequences of the prescribed conciliation procedure and the discretion afforded to the executive, and makes suggestions to ensure fairer adjudications of such disputes emanating under the law, and the quicker resolution of such disputes by changing the means in which ADR can be enabled.

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India’s Stance To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading: What does the future hold?

5 April 2021 / Cryptocurrency Law, Blog, Featured Posts / Sulagna Dutta and Anushree S. Nair

In this post, the authors have tried to analyse India’s stance towards the emerging cryptocurrency industry. In doing so, they have tried to highlight the regulatory issues surrounding the proposed ban on cryptocurrencies and the way forward for India.

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