On 23rd April 2012, the Union ministers Gulam Nabi Azad (Union Health minister) and V.Narayanaswamy (Minister of state) in a press meet at Delhi declared that any doctor traveling to the United States for higher medical studies from this year onwards would have to sign a bond to the government, promising to return to India [...]

[Editor's Note: A packet containing 120 tablets (to be consumed within a month) of the Cancer Treatment Drug ('Nexavar') cost Rs. 2.84 Lakhs previously. But after a recent decision by Indian Patents Office, the price has got reduced to Rs. 8800 per month. This article by Jos Anthony explains how the Application of Patent Law [...]

There was no criminal law in uncivilized society. Every man was liable to be attacked on his person or property at any time by any one. The person attacked either succumbed or over-powered his opponent. “A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, a life for a life” was the forerunner of criminal [...]

 “While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I’ll fight; while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight, I’ll fight to the very end!” - William Booth Introduction Everyday everybody is [...]

Introduction India is often referred as a vibrant and vigorous democracy. But just because we have elections regularly, or rather far too often, does not necessarily mean that we have an effective democracy. Election can be defined as a system by which voters or electors, select their representatives by casting of votes. It is a [...]

Introduction: Public company is defined under Section 3 (iv) of the Companies Act, 1956 (“Act”) as a company which is “not a private company; has a minimum paid-up capital of five lakh rupees or higher paid-up capital, as may be prescribed; is a private company which is a subsidiary of a company which is not [...]

Introduction SOPA and PIPA is all the rage in Internet these days. You must have come across them at least once in a while. Even for a newbie, it was hard to miss because some of the biggest and the most popular websites showed their protest by blacking out their websites for a whole day. Yes, [...]

Madhya Pradesh Gauvansh Vadh Pratishedh (Sanshodhan) Vidheyak 2010 has received the Presidential assent following which it has become an Act. The government had passed the amendment Bill in the Assembly in 2010 to “strengthen” the existing Cow Slaughter Prohibition Act (Madhya Pradesh Gauvansh Pratishedh Adhiniyam 2004) and forwarded it to the Union Home Ministry on [...]

(Note from Editor: We have come across incidents where disgruntled BPO employees have sold or misused the personal information of the customers of the client company. We had no specific law to punish such disclosure earlier. With amendment to the Act in 2008, we can actually assure the companies out sourcing services from India, that [...]