India is moving towards decriminalizing minor offenses, replacing jail time with monetary fines. This reform aims to boost ease of doing bu...

The Lok Sabha has passed the Boilers Bill, 2024, which replaces the Boilers Act of 1923. This new bill aims to decriminalize minor offences...

The imprisonment provisions have been now replaced with a monetary penalty and other non-monetary measures like advisory, warning and censu...

A working paper, co-authored by EAC-PM member Sanjeev Sanyal, said that the government should opt for a system of graded fines and remove i...

In June 2020, the Finance Ministry had proposed to decriminalise a host of minor offences, including those relating to cheque bounce and re...

In the last seven years, several such measures have been taken due to which there is an improvement in competitiveness, innovation, and eas...

Systemic bottlenecks and red tape, lack of affordable credit, inefficient supply chains and weak access to markets have stymied the MSME se...

The Act missed a recommendation by the committee to permit the government to set higher limits for net worth, turnover, or net profit of co...

The Bill introduces a regime of direct listing of securities of domestic public corporations in certain foreign jurisdictions, thereby allo...

In a public draft on Friday, the MCA listed 20 sections of the LLP Act, ranging from registration or change of designated partners to maint...

The Finance Ministry has proposed to decriminalise a host of minor offences, including those relating to cheque bounce and repayment of loa...

Hosabale said, "Why should RSS have an opinion on homosexuality? It is not a crime as long as it does not affect the lives of others. Sexua...

Selling pre-packaged items higher than maximum retail price (MRP) will soon attract higher penalty, including a jail term.

Although there are no exact estimates, the government last year told SC that India has about 25 lakh gays. Other estimates put the communit...

It is a little known fact that in roughly a fifth of our country's land area, a different legal system operates.

Government feels the judgment touched but on a small part of Article 377 when it decriminalized sex between two consenting adults of the sa...

However, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises homosexuality, will continue for non-consensual and non-vaginal sex. 'Gay ...