In around four decades, India has comprehensively updated the legal framework for the governance of film certification and exhibition for the first time. The Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023—now enacted as the Cinematograph (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 12 of 2023) which transforms the Cinematograph Act, 1952 to deal with online and camcording piracy, introduce nuanced age-based certification, and s
TK Arun The rise of the influencer represents yet another claimant to the advertising budget, increasingly diverting revenue away from traditional media to their detrimentThe Italian competition regulator is investigating cosmetics brands Sephora and Benefit over marketing skincare to young…
TK Arun The US-Israeli war on Iran continues, with Iranian cities being bombed regularly and Iran retaliating intermittently with missiles that should not have been launched if American President Donald Trump’s claim of having obliterated Iran’s missile launch capability were…
Anish Pujapanda Introduction The term migrant in India as per the Census 2011 is defined as the household member whose last usual place of residence differed from the current place of enumeration .Migrant labours workers play one of the most…
Policy UpdateAnish Pujapanda Background The Border Roads Organisation is one of the statutory bodies or regulated bodies which is under the ownership of the Ministry of Defence which comes under the Union Government of India.The BRO’s develops and looks to…
Policy Update Anish Pujapanda Background Saving Schemes can be traced back to the pre – colonial eras, where there was a launch of the Post Office Savings Bank in 1882 to democratise banking, making the savings across India’s vast postal…
Shakil Ahmed India’s criminal justice system confines 4,34,302 of its 5,73,220 prisoners without conviction the largest undertrial population in the world. This article examines the structural governance failures driving this crisis: an acute judicial capacity deficit, a bail framework that punishes poverty,…