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Following numerous reports of human–wildlife confrontations throughout Kerala, the state cabinet has resolved to categorise it as a “state-specific disaster” in March 2024. The activities of the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) will now be integrated into the array of remedial ..read more
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Bhutan’s fourth National Assembly elections were held in two rounds on 30 November 2023 and 9 January 2024. For a small landlocked country near the Himalayas that transited from a monarchy to a parliamentary government in 2008, the peaceful conduct of ..read more
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Courtrooms, where accessibility ramps have been turned into lawyers’ offices; a bar association strike protesting the “monkey menace” in the courtroom; clients who patiently, and without complaint, turn up week after week hoping to get their lawyer’s time for a long ..read more
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The union government recognises that it cannot afford to ignore half of its population if it aims to emerge as a global power. Upon this realisation, uplifting women has become one of India’s key priorities, as evident from the emphasis placed on ..read more
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Radhika DesaiThe historical development of the right is governed less by the internal logic of its central theses (though some recurring themes can also be discerned) and more by the exigencies of the times, by the tasks it is called ..read more
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In an extraordinary move, the Ministry of Finance presented a White Paper on the Indian Economy towards the end of the final session of the 17th Lok Sabha. The white paper was ostensibly meant to inform Parliament and the nation ..read more
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Anuradha Chenoy writes: Rafah, at the edge of Gaza bordering Egypt, an area of 25 square miles, shelters 1.5 million Palestinian refugees forcibly herded here by the Israeli military, when northern Gaza faced merciless bombing. Rafah was designated a ‘‘safe zone’’ but safety here ..read more
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The European Union (EU) is currently at the forefront of a groundbreaking experiment—exploring the potential benefits of a four-day workweek. Belgium has taken the first step towards it, granting employees the right to work for four days with full pay ..read more
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The Supreme Court’s flawed and jurisprudentially unsound judgment in E V Chinnaiah (2005), which prohibited inter se reservations among Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, looks likely to be overturned by a seven-judge bench in State of Punjab v Davinder Singh. However ..read more
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On 21 December 2023, a new set of criminal laws were passed by Parliament under the context of decolonising colonial criminal laws. The colonial trinity of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian ..read more