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Aiming to become a $5 trillion economy by 2024, from around $2.7 trillion currently, India’s new legislation aims to protect foreign investors to exclude tax demands –The new law will upgrade protection for foreign investors in India by offering relief from possible policy changes but will uphold the states right to tax them

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With aiming to become a $5 trillion economy soon, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the government’s earnest attempt was to decriminalize everything that has to do with companies law or related acts as there are a number of sections in companies law that leads to a criminal approach and penalties or even jail terms and the government does not want a law that could treat every business house with suspicion

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Protesting against the new citizenship law, over 50 lawyers in Mumbai read Preamble outside the Bombay High Court including senior counsels Navroze Seervai, Gayatri Singh and Mihir Desai, later saying no one can divide India And its citizens on the basis of religion

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While defending the new citizenship amendment act, BJP leader Ram Madhav says, even Austria had amended its law to grant citizenship to Jewish and asserted that people coming to India for genuine reasons can aim to get Indian nationality

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called the new citizenship amendment act as “unnecessary “, but she also considers it to be India’s internal matter

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Post-Kerala moving the Supreme Court of India against the new citizenship law, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal says, it would be difficult for any state government to say that, I will not follow a law passed by the Parliament

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Hundreds of women protesters raise their voice against the new citizenship law in Gauhati, Assam – Several actors, Singers academicians also took part in the anti-CAA protest on Sunday

 Know the story in detail here –https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/hundreds-of-women-protest-against-citizenship-law-in-guwahati-1638278-2020-01-19

 

 

 The union finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the CAA is a law to confer Indian citizenships to a person and not allowed to cancel citizenship – she said during the past six years 2,838 persons from Pakistan, 172 persons from Bangladesh, 914 from Afghanistan, and over four lakh people from Sri Lanka have been offered Indian citizenship between 1964–2008

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On January 18, 2020, India has issued a gazette notification declaring the UAE as a reciprocating territory for the code of civil procedure and identifying the superior courts, thereby facilitating the execution of UAE civil Court orders through Indian courts – now it wouldn’t take much longer time to catch loan defaulters and other civil case convicts in the UAE who have fled to India in order to escape

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 The lawyers are exempted from service tax and there is no move to impose a levy on them for providing legal services, says the government

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 Justice Ramana while addressing the gathering during the 16th KK Luthra Memorial Moot Court competition said that the lawyers and students should help the legal system in establishing the rule of law and educate the people about their legal rights

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 Jawaharlal Nehru University students Union to file a legal case in the Delhi High Court today seeking to quash the illegally passed Inter hostel management manual

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The Bombay High Court on Friday disposed of public interest litigation concerning illegal parking and abandoning of old vehicles in Mumbai, saying that the citizens should realize their responsibilities

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 The Madras High Court has clarified that the right to admit a nationalized bank employee as a member of particular union vests with the union concerned and that the banks can’t have a say on staff union membership

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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified that once an armed forces employee is injured during the course of training, the injuries would be attributable to service conditions and the armed forces cannot deny him any special Allowances admissible for such injuries in future

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 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has instructed the UTI administration to install automatic number plate Reading technology and install 1800 CCTV cameras for effective traffic management in Chandigarh – officers concerned say it will take over 18 months for its completion while the High Court mentioned four months

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