To get familiar with the updates of recent meetings, let’s start with the highlights of the 43rd GST council meeting. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman through video conferencing mode on 28th May, 2021. Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs Shri Anurag Thakur besides Finance Ministers and senior officers of the Ministry of Finance of other states and union territories also participated in the meeting. The council made the undermentioned recommendations relating to GST rates. As a COVID-19 relief measure, medical oxygen, oxygen concentrators and other oxygen storage and transportation equipment, certain diagnostic markers test kits and COVID-19 vaccines, Amphotericin B, etc., have been recommended for full exemption from IGST, even if imported on payment basis up to 31 August 2021. To check if further relief in items for COVID-19 is realizable a Group of Minsters (GOM) was constituted. The GOM was asked to give its report by 8th June,2021.
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Kelsen’s anatomization of United Nation
In order to analyse the working of the UN and point out its limitations, in 1950, Kelsen Published ‘The Law of United Nations’ in this book he analysed the different aspects of the functioning of the organs of the United Nations with a juristic approach. Kelsen applied positive jurisprudence of law while writing this book when he affirms that the book deals with the Law of the Organisation as it is and not with its desired role in International Law.
The book has thoroughly revised the entire working model of the UN on the premise of the UN Charter, according to its making and the ideas expressed in it. However, not all of those ideas hold water today as these bodies have defined their roles over the decades.
E-commerce and the anti-competitive practice conundrum
A similar issue came into light when Delhi Vyapar Mahasangh a group of small and medium business owners filed a complaint against Amazon India and flipkart alleging them to be engaged in anti- competitive practices like preferred selling and deep discounts. These practices damage the retail market of the small businesses.
The Ethical Dilemma of Abortion – Its Legality in India and Anti-Abortion Laws
Abortion laws and their enforcement have fluctuated through various eras. In many western countries during the 20th century, for example in 1929, the Infant Life Preservation Act was passed in the United Kingdom, which amended the law (Offences against the Person Act 1861 and South Africa allows abortion on demand under its Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act and these movements were successful in having abortion bans repealed. While abortion remains legal in most of the West, this legality is regularly challenged by anti-abortion groups.
Case Comment: The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen (Ongwen Case)
On Feb. 2021 the chamber of the International Criminal Court held the Dominic Ongwen for count of 61 crimes against humans and wars crimes and therefore, sentenced Dominic 25 year of imprisonment. This judgement had diverging and conflicting views around the jurists. This article talks about the incompetency of International Criminal Court in regarding to how the ICC neglected the root cause if the crimes that happened in the case of Dominic.
Blog Series: Israel-Palestine Conflict through the Lens of Right to Self-determination
Israel-Palestine conflict has come to a complicated juncture where the idea of only one State in the region, either Israel or Palestine, would be near to impossible. Many countries like USA and India also supported the two-nation theory to end the conflict. Now is the time for Palestine and Israel to relinquish the idea of violence and search for alternative course of action.
Virtual board meetings – corporate governance redefined
Like all the other spheres of life today ‘virtual is the new real’ even for the corporates. In this pandemic if something is holding the economies of the world and has been able to avoid the devastations of economic crisis in the form of Inflation i.e., the smooth running of the business eco system. InContinueContinue reading “Virtual board meetings – corporate governance redefined”
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UN Court Rejects Genocide Appeal By ‘Butcher Of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladic : A Hopeful End to 25 Years of Proceedings
On 22 November 2017, an ICTY (International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals) Trial Chamber issued its Judgement in the case of Ratko Mladid. Under Article 2(2) of the Transitional Arrangements, the Mechanism has competence over appellate proceedings originating from ICTY cases for which the notice of appeal is filed on or after 1 July 2013.
The Response of Latin America to the Venezuelan Emigration and the Applicability of “The International Convention on the Protection of The Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families”
Unlike other refugee problems, the Venezuelan crisis is not the product of everyday military conflict. However, the hardships Venezuelans experience every day are not any different from those experienced in an ongoing war zone. Since 2013 the economy of Venezuela has shrunk by 65 per cent, the biggest recession from outside of the war in 45 years. The only near comparisons are countries experiencing armed warfare, such as Liberia, where 90 per cent of the country’s GDP was decimated during its brutal civil war.
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