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254-0 French Parliament votes to repeal law from slavery eraFrance's Parliament has voted to abolish the Black Code. This colonial law, enacted in 1685, treated enslaved people as property. For nearl...- Curb your overenthusiasm: Why India must avoid early overregulation while drafting rules for new techIndia faces a critical choice in regulating new industries like AI and genomics. Overly cautious, ex-ante regulations, similar to the histo...
- Parliament clears bill to repeal 71 obsolete laws, streamline legal frameworkParliament has cleared a bill to scrap and update old laws. This move aims to simplify daily life for citizens and remove decades of legal ...
- Cabinet nod to repeal 71 laws which have outlived utilityThe Union Cabinet has approved a Bill to repeal 71 outdated laws. These laws are no longer needed in the statute books. The move aims to si...
- Bill to update 169-year-old shipping law gets approvalThe Lok Sabha has passed the Bills of Lading Bill, 2025, modernising shipping laws from 1856. This new legislation simplifies language, reo...
- Rajya Sabha takes up bill to replace 100 years old Boiler ActThe Rajya Sabha debated The Boilers Bill, 2024, aiming to replace the century-old Boilers Act, 1923. The bill seeks to improve boiler safet...
- Need to understand the correct legal history of India: Union Minister Arjun Ram MeghwalUnion Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has urged the nation to understand its correct legal history, as the country's legal system was establishe...
- Petty crimes, sedition, mob lynching & more: How India's new bill seeks to deal with crimeThree bills of momentous significance with a thrust on 'justice instead of punishment' were introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in ...
- Proposal 'treacherous', against spirit of SC stand, signal of centre becoming more 'deadly': Congress"In a terrible, tragic and treacherous development, The law commission has recommended that Section 124A of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) sho...
- Law Commission bats for sedition law, says don't repeal, just put in place some safeguardsAmid continuous allegations of rampant misuse, there have been demands from various quarters in India that the provision be repealed like c...
- Singapore will decriminalise sex between men: PMBut he added the government had no intention of changing the city-state's legal definition of marriage - that is, between a man and a woman.
- Welcome Centre's decision, but AFSPA should be repealed: Irom SharmilaUnion Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced a reduction in the number of "disturbed areas" in the three northeastern states where t...
- Misuse of sedition laws breaches functioning of institutions, says Chief JusticeIn his short summary during Thursday's hearing, the CJI gave many reasons why the sedition law should be repealed. But the AG resisted the ...
- Marine Aids to Navigation Bill introduced in Lok Sabha to replace over-90-year-old lawWith technological changes taking place at a fast pace in marine navigation, a bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday to replace an ove...
- Shipping ministry issues draft Aids to Navigation Bill to replace 90-yr old lawThe draft bill aims at repealing the colonial Lighthouse Act, 1927, and provides for empowering the Directorate General of Lighthouses and ...
- House truce on the cards as partial normalcy returns to Lok SabhaThe House passed two bills to repeal 245 obsolete and archaic laws, including the 158-year-old Calcutta Pilots Act of 1859 and the 1911 Pre...
- 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.
- Cabinet approves enactment of Admiralty BillIndia is a leading maritime nation and maritime transportation caters to about 95 per cent of its merchandise trade volume.
- International rights group demands 'Comrade' S Kovan's releaseAn international rights group demanded the repealing of a colonial-era law that was enforced to arrest a folk singer on writing songs criti...
- Report calls for scrapping of 100 outdated lawsIt outlined 25 colonial laws, 17 laws that constrain economic freedom and impose restrictions on personal liberty and 19 laws that hinder e...
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