The West Bengal government is considering framing laws to determine wages of domestic help, and has asked departments for their feedback on the subject, a minister said on Wednesday. “Fixing wages is under consideration, and we have asked for feedback from various departments, including social welfa...

Kapil Mishra to be Delhi’s new Law and Tourism Minister replacing jailed Jitender Singh Tomar.

PRS Legislative Research Trina Roy reports: Today Lok Sabha today passed the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015 . The Bill penalizes the concealment of foreign income, and provides for criminal liability for attempting to evade tax in relation to foreign income. At ...

The Law Commission of India - the law ministry’s three-year-term advisory wing on law making in India – may be made a permanent statutory body if recommendations of the current law secretary PK Malhotra are accepted by the parliamentary standing committee on law and personnel, reported Zee News . Th...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Lok Sabha passed the Constitutional (122ndAmendment) Bill, 2014 to rollout the Goods and Services Tax (GST). 19 members had participated in the debate yesterday. The Finance Minister in his reply today addressed the concerns of the members with regard to...

The union cabinet today approved amendments to the Whistlebowers Protection Act, 2011 aimed at strengthening safeguards against disclosures which may affect the sovereignty and integrity of the country. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An off...

During the week, financial business continued to be the focus in both the Houses. While Lok Sabha discussed Demands for Grants of Ministries, Rajya Sabha undertook discussion on the Working of Ministries.

PRS Legislative Research Trina Roy reports: The Minister of Home Affairs replied to the debate on the Demands for Grants his Ministry. The Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh addressed, among other things, issues related to police modernisation, left wing extremism, insurgency in the north east, crimes agai...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: In Lok Sabha today, during Zero Hour several members expressed their condolences to the families who have been affected by the earthquake in Nepal. The Minister at the end of the discussion replied to the debate informing the members about the Government...

The second half of the Budget Session began this week. Here are the highlights.

Former iGate Technologies in-house lawyer sued the company and its global general counsel (GC), alleging that he and others had repeatedly sexually harassed and once sexually assaulted her.

Delhi government hospital LNJP has informed the Delhi High Court that it does not have any policy on providing “prolonged or life-long treatment” for patient with rare genetic disorder claiming free of cost treatment. An affidavit filed by the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Hospital in response to a plea see...

The Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill, 2014 which introduces the goods and services tax was introduced in Lok Sabha today. The Bill was not listed in the original list of business for the day but was added through a supplementary notice. Several MPs protested the introduction of the Bill on such a...

Five Bills were passed by Lok Sabha, and three by Rajya Sabha this week. Three of these Bills now have the approval of both Houses. One Bill was withdrawn. In all, of the 37 Bills listed in the agenda for this Session, work on 33 is still left. In terms of productivity, Lok Sabha worked for 86% of i...

The Supreme Court on 10 October ordered the government to compensate a widow with Rs 15 lakh for the custodial death of her husband 27 years ago, in Indu Singh & Ors vs State of UP (WP Cr 40/2014). Indu Singh’s husband Vinay Singh, a doctor by profession, had died in custody in March 1987, alle...

Ex Karnataka chief minister and former railways minister DV Sadananda Gowda has become the latest minister of law and justice in the first major cabinet reshuffle of the new government, following telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who held the law portfolio from 26 May 2014, reported PTI . Gowda ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would strike down a 59-year-old gender discriminating rule of the Cine Costume Make-up Artists and Hair Dressers Association (CCMAA), which made women ineligible to be make-up artists in the Indian film industry, classifying them as hairdressers, reported the Indi...

The Delhi high court noted in its judgement acquitting an alleged rapist, that sexual intercourse between the accused and the victim, who was “beyond the age of menopause”, was “forceful [but] it was not forcible”. A bench comprising justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta ruled that the absence ...

The Finance Ministry’s 2013-14 economic survey reported that the average growth of the legal industry between 2005-06 and 2012-13 remained at 8.2 per cent per annum – the same average figure found in last year’s economic survey between 2005 and 2012 . However, the report did not specify the actual g...

The Supreme Court yesterday asked actor Salman Khan to reply to the Rajasthan government’s challenge to the stay on his conviction for shooting and killing a blackbuck, reported the TOI.

Khan was charged under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act.