We would like to announce that this is going to be our last post on Medium. This week onwards, we are moving our blogs on to our website nyaaya.org. You can find these here. We would like to thank all our followers and viewers who encouraged us to keep posting and helped us achieve great milestones here on Medium. It was your encouragement that motivated us to take our blogs to the next level and make it bigger! We look forward to your continued support. Thank you! See you on the other side. We Are Moving! was originally published in Nyaaya on Medium, where people are cont ..read more

Basic Legal Compliances That Every Startup Should Know Image Source: Pixabay Many social and technological advancements in recent years are owed to the boom of the startup culture. Be it Flipkart, Swiggy or even Urban Company, tech-based startups have simplified tedious processes by making them directly accessible at your fingertips. On the occasion of National Technology Day, as we celebrate these new-age startups and their contribution to the Indian economy, it is important for us to know the provisions of the legal system supporting the same. What are the laws that need to be foll ..read more

Complexion, height and looks are not legal criteria for marriage Source: Indian Express Indian Matchmaking is the Netflix Show which has made waves in the Indian marriage market. It attempts to portray how the Indian matchmaking industry works. Matchmaker Sima Taparia guides clients in the U.S. and India in the arranged marriage process, offering an inside look at the custom in a modern era. It also indicates the various criteria society imposes to find a suitable bride or groom. As entertaining as this show is, the discussions revolve around the complexion, height, wealth and caste ..read more

Image Source: TrendingNews.news In 1967, Haryana’s MLA Gaya Lal changed his political party three times in the span of fifteen days — first from the Congress to the Janata Party, then back to the Congress, and again to the Janata Party. ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’[1] thus became a popular phrase in Indian politics, referring to legislators (members of legislative bodies, such as MPs or MLAs) who frequently change their political allegiance and jump from one political party to another. Political defection or shifting of party allegiance by legislators can happen for varied reasons, but it becomes ..read more

With rising border tensions between India and China, the Indian Government on 29th June banned 59 mobile applications of Chinese origin.[1] The apps include popular apps like ShareIt, Tiktok, CamScanner, UC Browser, Club Factory, etc. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)[2] stated that the ban was necessary to safeguard the ‘sovereignty and integrity of India’. It further said that the Government had received multiple complaints from various sources indicating that the apps were being misused for stealing and circulating private data outside India. However, the ..read more

Image Source: PixabayWhat is refugee law? Refugee law deals with the rights of those people who have been forcibly displaced from their native countries as refugees, and also covers duties of other nation-states in this regard. People may become ‘refugees’ due to ethnic strife, civil war, inter-country wars or a variety of other reasons. However, it is pertinent to note that people who migrate in search of better education and economic opportunities are not refugees. International refugee law evolved mainly in the aftermath of the Second World War, which displaced lakhs of peopl ..read more

Image Source: Pixabay Adoption in India, for a long time, fell within the ambit of personal laws, and there was no uniform legal framework that governed the adoption of children. Thus, adoptions were a purely religious matter, and members of certain religions — specifically, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism — were essentially prohibited from adopting children, as their personal laws did not permit it. Instead, they had to resort to assuming guardianship of children, under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. The only religious communities that could adopt children were Hindus ..read more

Image Source: Pixabay When a workman is employed for work through a contractor and not directly through an employer, he is engaged in ‘contractual employment.’ A 2015 ICRIER Survey of the Manufacturing sector in Haryana shows that approximately 41% of the labour employed was contractual in nature. Indeed, half of the increase in total employment (from 7.7 million to 13.7 million) between 2000–01 and 2015–16 was built up by contractual workers, as per data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI). In India, Contractual Employment is regulated by the Contractual Labour (Regulation and Abo ..read more

Source: India TV The 1994 Rajshri production blockbuster, Hum Aapke Hain Koun, is like a crash course for anyone looking to understand north-Indian, upper-caste wedding traditions. The Movie has had a seminal influence in ensuring that certain rituals, like the elaborate Sangeet and the Joota Churai ceremony, have become essential parts of weddings, especially in north and central India. Amongst the many memorable characters in the movie, Tuffy, the family dog is a favourite. He plays an important role in family recreational activities and in the wedding rituals. However, his most importa ..read more

Food Safety: A Collective Responsibility Image Source: PixabyWhat is food safety? Food is the basis for our health and well-being. We often assume that food is safe, but in a globalised world, food is grown, processed, stored and handled by a large network of people before it is consumed by us. In other words, there are lengthy food chains from farm to table. Therefore, we require standards and regulations for food safety, to ensure that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain. Food safety means ensuring that food is acceptable for human consumption, and that food does ..read more