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Background : The Supreme Court in the case of Satwant Singh Sawhney vs D. Ramarathnam[1] held that the right to travel abroad was well within the ambit of Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Therefore, to combat the above laid down law the Parliament enacted Passports Act 1967. […]
The doctrine of consideration and promissory estoppel is a term used in contract law that deals with the bargaining condition of the contract. The Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel The doctrine of promissory estoppel is an equitable doctrine. It is a principal evolved by equity to avoid injustice to the parties. […]
Under Section 15 of Indian Contract Act, 1872 – “Coercion” defined – “Coercion” is the committing, or threatening to commit any act forbidden by the Indian Penal Code, or the unlawful detaining, or threatening to detain, any property, to the prejudice of any person whatever, with the intention of causing […]
In tort, the liability of a person generally emanates from his negligence and therefore, if the person can be proved negligent then he is held liable. But this general principle of liability does not apply to any person who keeps hazardous substances in his premises or involves in hazardous activities. […]
‘If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich’, quoted John F. Kennedy years before an epidemic like Covid-19 could have even been forecasted. Starting from the Plague, a bacteria led pandemic to the Spanish Flu caused by a virus […]
According to the Constitution of India, Parliament and the state legislatures have power to make laws within their respective jurisdiction. This power, though, is not absolute in nature. The judiciary is given by the Constitution powers to determine the constitutional validity of all laws which means that the Supreme Court(SC) […]
According to Section 126 of Indian Contract Act, a contract of guarantee is a contract where a surety gives an undertaking to a creditor in respect of the payment default of a third person, principal debtor towards the creditor. In essence, a contract of guarantee is where A promises B […]
Our country is a pioneer in industrial development and the demo-graphs of such development is soaring high each day. Also, with the complexity in both geography and life, it is necessary the rules established should be strict and more absolute principle of liability with the respect of no fault liability. […]
The Administrative Tribunals rendering Administrative equity comprise a side-effect of the government assistance state. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century when ‘free enterprise’ hypothesis held influence, law courts rose out as the caretaker of the rights and freedoms of the individual residents. On occasion they also ensured the privileges of […]
Innuendo is used to describe defamation from libel or slander. It is derived from a Latin term “innuere”, “to nod toward”. In lawsuit for defamation, usually to show that the party suing was the person about whom the defamatory statement was made. Example: ‘the former Mayor is a crook,” and […]
The International Science Collaborations on COVID-19 has a new discussion on the table. The idea of patent pooling. Costa Rica, one of the countries in the meeting suggested the inkling of pooling the rights to deal with the current pandemic through minimal or at times free, preferably affordable licensing to […]
The Expert panel which was setup by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has prepared certain draft norms for Social Stock Exchanges (SSE). SSE is an electronic fundraising platform that allows investors to buy shares in a social enterprise that has been assessed by the exchange. Such social […]
The National Centre of Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) recently found the largest decline in the Arctic Sea ice as seen in last 41 years due to global warming in July 2019. Between 1979 and 2018, NCPOR noted that the sea ice has seen a declination at a rate of […]
Chaolung Sukapha, the founder of Ahom kingdom, was recently referred to as a “Chinese invader”. The name-calling broke media as it showed the illiteracy of knowing his/her own history and culture. To know of Chaolung Sukapha is the least we can do to pay a tribute. This 13th-century ruler founded […]
India has been elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. For this two-year term, India is the only endorsed candidate from the Asia Pacific States. The country has won 184 votes out of the 192 ballots cast in the entire elections. The country’s term as the non-permanent […]
A virtual bilateral summit was held virtually for the first time between the Prime Ministers of India and Australia. A few of the major outcomes of the Summit was the Elevation of the bilateral Strategic Partnership to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The Elevation of the “2+2” engagement to the level of […]
Firecrackers are merely constituents of gunpowder comprising of various elements which gives rise to prolong combustion. In India, it means a lot more than that. It has aesthetic purposes since […]
To prove criminal conspiracy, the prosecution provide evidence to prove that: 1. The accused agreed to the act or caused it to act; 2. The Act was unlawful or done […]
An ordinance was recently approved to amend the IBC in order to provide relief for the businesses and corporates after the pandemic and subsequent lockdown significantly impacted most of their […]
Abortion is the term used to identify the act of intentionally interrupting pregnancy and not allowing the embryo or foetus to continue its normal process. The definition clearly recognizes only […]
June 2020 has seen two important government initiatives for the every-day earners for food in news. They are the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana and the PM Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi. First on the list is the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana. It is a central government initiative taken amidst the pandemic […]
2020 has been driving at the highest paces as every person in the country is finding themselves locked more often than not. Amidst all the negativity, India has specifically positive […]
The recent death of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu has sparked anger amongst the people of the country. The country also saw people raising hands to how this set […]
