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 [...]
“Death solves all problems…no man, no problem.”… Joseph Stalin. “I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of Euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering.”…Rowan Williams. Also identifiable by the name “Mercy Killing”, Euthanasia connotes the act of deliberately helping someone in terminating his life or conceding to his request [...]
The framers of the Indian Constitution, emphasized upon certain aspects like Secularism, Integrity, Freedom and Equality. According to the Indian Constitution, there should be Equality on the basis of caste, religion, sex and so on. It is must for all the residents of the country to abide by these rules and regulations and make sure [...]
A constitution is, broadly, a set of rules, written and unwritten, which seek to establish the duties, powers and functions of the various institutions of government, regulate the relationships between them, and define the relationship between the state and the individual. The term constitution is also used more narrowly to refer to a single, authoritative [...]
“Political will and Parliament Bill are enough for formation of Telangana State as per the Constitutional procedures and requirements. Neither the consent of Andhra Pradesh Assembly, nor the Amendment to the Constitution is required for carving out a new territory from the boundaries of present Andhra Pradesh state.”[1] The Constitution in Article 3 vests the [...]
After reading an interesting editorial piece by Justice Markandey Katju of the Supreme Court, the debate between the media’s freedom of expression and the media’s responsibility has got me thinking on where exactly one should strike the balance. A corollary to this question is whether there should be a balance? The freedom of the media [...]
INTRODUCTION The constitution of India guarantees equal rights to all citizens irrespective of race,gender, religion, and other considerations and the “directive principle of state policy” as stated in Indian constitution obligate the government to provide to all citizens a minimum standard, the promise has not been fulfilled. The greater majority of Indian people have no [...]
The obligation of private entities, to protect fundamental rights is a theme of constitutional interest. In the Indian Constitutional scheme most of the fundamental rights are available against the state and Article 12 of the Constitution defines state to include: a)the Government and Parliament of India; b)the Government and the Legislature of each of the [...]
The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. UNICEF estimates that in the year 2000, about 2,420,000 children in India died before their fifth birthdays. This was the [...]
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