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November 7, 2021

Features of Indian Constitution

The Indian Constitution has some distinguishing characteristics that set it apart from other constitutions. Our Constitution’s framers studied other constitutions, selected their best aspects, and incorporated them into ours with minor changes. The framers of the Indian Constitution did not set out to create an entirely new or unique document. They simply desired “a good…

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CAN THE PREAMBLE BE AMENDED?

The Preamble of the Constitution is the key to open mind of the makers. Whether the basic structure of the Constitution can be amended or not?. This question was first raised in the landmark case of Kesavananda Bharti VS State of Kerala. The attorney general argued that under the amending power in Article 368 of…

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UNSC Veto Power

During the San Francisco Conference (1945). Several small and medium-sized States criticized the privileged status of the five permanent members as a sort of victors’ justice and an intolerable infringement on States’ sovereign equality. Nevertheless, the P-5 made it abundantly clear that their participation was contingent on their total and unconditional acceptance of permanent membership and…

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IPR & Biodiversity

Natural variety is the sign of life on earth. It is very spine of supportable turn of events. The current Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) system is empowering commercialization of seed improvement, monoculture, assurance of new plant assortments, microorganisms, and hereditarily changed organic entities. As an outcome, our rich biogenetic variety is being dissolved irreversibly. We…

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SOVEREIGNTY UNDER MUSLIM LAW

Sovereignty means supreme power. The word sovereignty has been derived from the Latin word ‘Superanus’. It denotes the higher power, i.e. for power over which there is no other power superior to it. Under Muslim law, when it is said as the sovereignty of God, it means that Allah is the highest authority. There is…

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THE MINIMUM WAGES ACT, 1948

INTRODUCTION The minimum wages act was passed for the welfare of laborers. An employer must pay minimum wages to his employees. An employer is any person who employs and an employee is any person employed by an employer for any work i.e., skilled, unskilled, manual clerical, etc. The minimum wages act contributes towards eradicating poverty,…

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