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Husband wanted wife to stay home with his parents; her decision to pursue career despite his disapproval is not cruelty, rules Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has ruled that a wife's career choice is not cruelty. A woman's decision to open her own dental clinic was opposed by her...- The dark side of cricket: Why colourism in the game needs calling outSocietal norms often lead to the selective enforcement of laws, with many minor infractions overlooked. This article explores how such leni...
- How Jan Vishwas Bill will bury statutes that are not only archaic, but lead to harassmentThe Jan Vishwas Bill is just a start. There are several other central Acts which have irrational imprisonment provisions. Eventually, they ...
- Over 1,500 obsolete, archaic laws to be repealed: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju"It is the prime minister's desire to reduce the compliance burden of the people, to ensure that they can live as peacefully as possible. H...
- Remove archaic laws, ensure speedy justice, says PM ModiStating that the development journey of Indian society is thousands of years old and steady progress has been made despite facing critical ...
- Assam government will repeal redundant and archaic lawAssam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma stated, “Today in my office of Janata Bhavan, a meeting was held in the presence of Chief Secreta...
- Criticism of people in positions of authority right of every citizen: Omar AbdullahNational Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday said the criticism of people in positions of authority is the right of every cit...
- Lok Sabha passes 2 bills to repeal 245 archaic lawsSome 1824 acts were repealed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over the reins of the government, the law minister said.
- Bill on admiralty juridiction of courts introduced in Lok SabhaThe repealing of four admiralty statutes is in line with the government's commitment to do away with archaic laws which are hindering effic...
- 64 archaic laws repealed by Maharashtra legislatureThe law made it incumbent on the head of the family to register names of family members at the registration centre within seven days of arr...
- Government's plan to repeal over 1000 archaic laws stuck in Rajya SabhaWhile Parliament has passed two bills to repeal 125 obsolete laws, another two bills which seek to scrap a total of 1053 Acts are pending i...
- Modi government repeals 125 obsolete laws; 945 more facing axeThe exercise is being undertaken by the law ministry in line with PM Modi's agenda to do away with "archaic" laws that were "hindering gove...
- Lok Sabha passes bill to repeal 35 archaic lawsSeeking to weed out archaic and dead laws, the Lok Sabha today approved a bill to repeal as many as 35 legislations.
- Government to weed out over 1,000 archaic lawsThe Law Commission has been of the opinion that at least 350 laws need to be immediately revoked. It has already identified at least 200 su...
- Government identifies over 1,000 archaic lawsThe government has identified over a thousand archaic laws which can be sent to the chopping block in the comings days to clear statute boo...
- Law Commission recommends repeal of 72 archaic lawsOne of the laws recommended for repeal dates back to 1836. Several others recommended for revoking belong to period dating from 1838 to 189...
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new committee to identify and phase out obsolete lawsThe panel will examine all Acts recommended for repeal by the Committee on Review of Administrative Laws appointed in 1998 by the Vajpayee ...
- Prime Minister sets up committee to identify 'obsolete' lawsThe committee will submit its report in three months, and on the basis of its recommendations a bill will be introduced in Parliament.
- Archaic laws putting liquor business in poor spirits: RestaurateursThe excise department in Delhi, for instance, posts a notice outside a restaurant inviting objections from the public before granting a liq...
- Of archaic laws & booby trapsAnti-mine activists and organisations around the world should include India in their list of contaminated countries. Not because the Naxali...
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