Contemporary

1.0 INTRODUCTION On October 2021, the largest social media company Facebook rechristened itself as “meta”. This renaming is done to showcase that Facebook and its owners were highly hopeful and moving ahead in the next cutting age technology which is called metaverse. Facebook is surely not the only one, other tech giants like Microsoft, Epic …

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Marriage in India is a sacrosanct relationship under the personal laws which not only marks a beginning of an intimate and fiduciary relationship between the husband and wife but also gives birth to a deep-rooted connection between two families and a bond that is believed to last till eternity. According to the Hindu customs, in …

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  Introduction Though the international think tanks have been putting laborious efforts into formulating a workable structure for state responsibility, a firm legal backing is still not available in this spectrum. We live in a dynamic and ever-changing world. The task of specifying the territorial onus of various previously committed actions-both positive and negative-is the …

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“Miya-biwi raazi toh kya karega kaazi”[1]has quite literally been witnessed as an escalating sentiment amongst individuals, particularly women, against the contentious Prohibition Of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021cleared by the union cabinet. The billamends the Child Marriage Act,2006 and proposes to increase women’s legal minimum age of marriage from 18 to 21, parallel to the …

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The year 2018 shook the world when a data company scandal made it crystal clear that masses of people can be manipulated online into voting for a candidate to make him win even when thepre-election polls and statistics suggest unfavoured conditions. The infamous Cambridge Analytica case revealed how regime change can be brought about with …

The Cambridge Analytica Case: The Scandal That Quivered The Modern Tech World Read More »

With the assembly elections in five states, the tool of freebies has again come to the aid of politicians to woo the voters. Does the freebie model of governance hold any repercussions for the future? Over the years, election campaigns in India have evolved to get maximum votes by using various strategies. In 1967 when …

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The SEBI in the SEBI (Issue of capital and disclosure requirements) regulations, 2018, has made certain amendments with the consideration of fresh uptrend in the IPO marketplace and for keeping up the balance & stability financially. The revised regulations would impact both the investors and the issuing companies. The regulations on the preferential allotment of …

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