“Sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape “ This is what our IPC section 375 exception 2 says. Recently, a petition was filed in Delhi High Court challenging this law (RIT Foundation v. Union of India). This incident arouses few important questions
Okay. Here it is. RIGHT TO EQUALITY Equality is something which we, the people of India, demand from the very beginning of our life, say, from the day we were born, till death. A kid, probably 3-4 years old, when given 2 chocolates and sees that her sister got 3 chocolates, starts crying and yells
Abortion, a method by which foetus in mother’s womb is eliminated. In a country like India, this practice may be termed as a taboo. But, its actually legal through a law termed as medical termination of pregnancy act 1971. Before 1971 abortion was illegal and punishable under IPC, but continuous growth in number of illegal
The Yoga guru Baba Ramdev recently cautioned that the “Entire saint tradition should not be seen in a bad light if a religious figure is found guilty in a criminal case. There are still millions of saints in the country who are living a life full of honesty, purity and serving the common people. Lord
PANAMA PAPERS The Panama Papers are the secrets of dirty money and an unprecedented leak of about 2.6 terabytes of data that includes approximately 11.5 million documents more than the combined total of the Wikileaks Cablegate, Offshore Leaks, Lux Leaks, and Swiss Leaks. The data primarily comprises e-mails, pdf files, photo files, and excerpts of
We live in a country, where people get offended by mere a drop of a water. Especially with cinema! The moment a film is announced, people do look for certain aspects of the film and manipulate points and state that it hurts their religious sentiments or is deprecatory, hence putting an undue pressure on the
Senior Supreme Court Advocate, Ram Jethmalani has quit as chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s counsel in the civil and criminal defamation cases filed by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley against the CM. Jethmalani has asked Kejriwal to settle his legal fees amounting to more than Rs 2 crore. The lawyer used an offensive word, amounting to accusing Jaitley of
Setting the ball rolling for the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India, current incumbent JS Khehar has named Justice Dipak Misra as his successor, a senior functionary aware of the development said on Tuesday. According to laid down procedure, the law minster writes to the Chief Justice seeking his recommendation on who should
BY: ADITI MARWAHA India is a country having a big population of elder citizens. We Indians are taught from childhood to respect our elders but unfortunately in the present scenario this is only said and not done. Children are so engaged in their lives that they completely forget about the people who are responsible for
A presidential election was held in India on Monday 17 July 2017 with the votes counted and the results announced on Thursday 20 July. President Pranab Mukherjee’s term of office was due to expire on 24 July 2017. Mukherjee declined to seek re-election. Governor of Bihar Ram Nath Kovind of the Bharatiya Janata Party had the backing of the governing National Democratic Alliance coalition, and went
