The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has notified its new regulations relating to net neutrality, essentially banning telecoms operators from offering schemes such as Facebook’s Free Basics.

2015 was massive for the legal profession, with NJAC making the problems of the bench and the bar an issue of national debate, but there were many more fascinating legal industry insider stories this year, notably including the following where we led the field in our reportage.

The Maharashtra government has issued several guidelines for issuing licences to dance bars in the wake of a court order asking the government to allow dance bars to operate reported http: Indian Express </http:>. Dance bar operators would have to provide live CCTV feed to the nearest police st...

The passage of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2015 in the Rajya Sabha unanimously on 21 December was an event that Dalits across the country were aspiring for.

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports that parliament met for its seventh sitting of the Session on Friday (4 December). Discussion on the High Court and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service (Amendment) Bill was initiated in Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to ensure uniformit...

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports that the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to make the process of arbitration simpler to ensure timely disposal of cases. The Lower House discussed the Bureau of Indian Standards Bill. The Bill replac...

Parliament met for the fifth sitting of the Winter Session today.

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament last week.

Almost all non-official, personal electronic communication in India will be ripped of its privacy under the Draft National Encryption Policy proposed yesterday by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (Deity), which seeks to make the information available for legal investigation. ...

Six armymen will serve a life-imprisonment term for having killed three innocent persons near the Line of Control (LOC) in 2010, reported The Hindu , was confirmed by the Army’s Northern Command GOC. The Indian army court martialed the two officers and four non-officer soldiers for killing the three...

“Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has given charge of the ministry to his deputy Manish Sisodia and removed Kapil Mishra,” reported NDTV , citing sources who said Mishra would focus on the tourism and water ministry. Just over two months ago, Mishra was appointed to replace Jitender Singh Tomar, who w...

The Centre on Wednesday reiterated its stand that privacy was not a fundamental right, while contesting a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme on the ground of violation of citizens’ right to privacy. Addressing the court for referring the matter to a cons...

Section 66A of the Information Technology Act will be back on the statute books, with modifications, as per the current plan of the government, reported the PTI . The ministry of home affairs has constituted a committee to examine the implications of the Supreme Court’s March judgment repealing the ...

Taxi-calling app Ola Cabs drove the Delhi high court to the point of suggesting that the app should be permanently banned as it was plying in Delhi without permission from the city’s transport department, reported the Express . An irate bench headed by justice Manmohan Singh, while hearing Ola’s ple...

Mumbai lawyer Abhishek Nakashe lodged a police complaint under Section 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) against local restaurant Secret Spice, after the restaurant entered a heated argument with Nakashe over an allegedly illegally levied service charge in Nakashe’s foo...

The Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill has advised changes in provisions relating to compensation for states and on levy of one percent additional tax by states on the inter-state supply of goods. The suggestions were made on Wednesday as the committee submi...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Both Houses of Parliament faced repeated disruptions and were unable to take up scheduled business for the day. Opposition parties in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha continued to raise demands insisting upon the resignation of the Minister of External Affairs....

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Parliament met for the first sitting of the Monsoon Session yesterday (Tuesday 21 July 2015). The session is scheduled to run until 13 th August, 2015 and will consist of 18 sittings. Lok Sabha adjourned after obituary notices were read. The Delhi High C...

Death row convicts in India are mostly from the backward classes, religious minorities and economically weaker sections, reported the Times of India . 93.5 per cent of those sentenced to death for terror offences in the last 15 years were Dalits or religious minorities while 75 per cent of the total...

DV Sadananda Gowda, commenting on the US Supreme Court’s national country-wide legalisation of gay marriage last week , said that the government could de-criminalise gay sex under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and might even consider gay marriage as an option. “The mood appears to be in favou...