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Topic: Law

India’s Chandrayaan-2 matters, but don’t dream about moon picnics with friends just as yet

Nitin Pai -
Although postponed, when Chandrayaan-2 eventually lands on moon, India will have taken a substantial step towards extra-terrestrial settlement.

Karnataka tried new law to protect doctors and failed. Only protecting patients will help now

Nitin Pai -
We need to protect patients to protect our doctors and that starts with Patient Protection Services in each hospital.

Modi govt’s new education policy draft wants law taught in English & local languages

Kritika Sharma -
The panel that drafted the New Education Policy suggested that legal education must be bilingual to help speed up legal transactions in lower courts.

The real problem with AFSPA is how a normal law can bypass constitutional safeguards

Madhav Khosla -
India does not need to look far to see how military power can undermine constitutional orders.

Bar Council of India’s discriminatory age cap on study of law is nonsensical 

Shamnad Basheer -
The Bar Council of India's age limit discriminates against those hailing from underprivileged backgrounds.

On ‘secret’ Rafale files, transparency trumps privilege & there’s legal precedent

Maneesh Chhibber -
Supreme Court has the chance to decide if a government can take shelter in outdated notions of ‘privilege’ when questioned over transparency.

Updating election Model Code of Conduct is only way to keep national security out of rallies

Vinayak Dalmia -
While we protect our borders and soldiers, we must also safeguard our voters and their autonomy.

Supreme Court has let down India’s disability rights movement

Nipun Malhotra -
By dismissing an impaired lawyer's appeal, the Supreme Court has denied millions of Indians with disabilities a chance to enter the judicial process.

Why BJP and Congress love to hate sedition (till they come to power)

Maneesh Chhibber -
Every political party questions the wisdom of retaining the sedition law, but only when they are in opposition.

Arrest of beggars, govt staff not allowed to protest — laws that India needs to repeal

Fatima Khan -
From deeming begging a crime to a law that prevents government staff from protesting, archaic and redundant laws continue to remain on the statute.
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Opinion

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

DM Kulkarni -
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

Parineeta to Queen—What Hindi cinema’s marriages reveal about us

With MGNREGA dismantled, Modi govt now has to prepare for upheaval in rural economy

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

Shekhar Gupta -
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.

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