Jahanvi Agarwal The government emphasized on Monday, i.e., July 24, 2023, that playing music at weddings does not violate copyright laws and that no one is allowed to charge a royalty for doing so. The Department for Promotion, Industry, and Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The Rajasthan Platform-Based GIG Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023, was introduced on Friday, i.e., July 21, 2023, in an attempt for Rajasthan to become the first state in India to offer social security to gig workers. If Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque has been postponed by the Supreme Court till 5 p.m. on July 26, 2023, i.e., Wednesday. The Supreme Court further directed the mosque committee to challenge a district court’s ruling authorizing the Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V Vladimir Putin has signed a law that bans people from officially and/or medically changing their gender. The act bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person” and changing the gender of a person in Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan V Pranishka Chinnamuniyandi filed a petition to the Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission for making reservations for transgenders at law colleges. It will encourage more people of the community to join the institution and get admissions faster. Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal The Supreme Court cautioned state governments on Monday, i.e., July 24, 2023, that if they failed to respond to its request for a consistent national policy on menstrual hygiene for school girls by August 31, 2023, then the Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V An Indian Army court-martial gave a sentence of over ten years and ten months to a soldier who was caught passing confidential data to a Pakistan embassy staffer in New Delhi. The offender was providing information about Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V The Karnataka High Court quashed the conviction of a 46-year-old man charged under section 498A of the IPC since the complaint was filed by his ‘second wife’, which makes their marriage ‘null and void’. Section 498A of Read more
Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V A fast-track court in Kerala, that deals with POCSO cases, sentenced one Sunil Kumar to death on July 22nd, for killing his six-year-old nephew and ordered jail time till the end of his natural life for raping Read more
Jahanvi Agarwal On July 20, 2023, Indian states and union territories effectively implemented the Ground Water Act, according to the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti. For the purpose of improving sustainable water management, this Act contains an essential provision for Read more
