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Recently, the news headlines have highlighted how Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) is devising a specific restructuring proposal to be advanced to companies affected by economic fallout induced by the Covid-19 crisis. The need for such a proposal shall be attributed to the companies reeling under the loss of earning capacity as well as the destruction in demand prompted by the pandemic. The present article aims to throw light upon the concept of, and schemes for the restructuring of such debts and how these are affected by the pandemic, elaborating upon various regulatory and judicial reliefs for the same.

Abstract

Assam accord was signed as a result of protest of six long years. The agendas of the accord has not been implemented even after passing of 35 years. Various communities which are identity and beauty of Assam still face unsafe and insecure. This issue needs to be tackled by mutual consensus as soon as possible.

With the incidents that have happened time and again, while an accused or arrested person is in police custody, it needs to be cleared that even accused or arrested persons have certain rights. Such rights are important and are crucial to impart justice to all without any discrimination.

INTRODUCTION

Article 21 of the constitution of India, 1950 provides that no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to the procedure established by Law. The court in Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay v. Dilipkumar Raghavendranath Nandkarni 1 , came to hold that “the right to life” guaranteed by Article 21 includes “the right to livelihood”. The five-judge bench of the Supreme Court in Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation 2 , popularly known as the “Pavement Dwellers Case” implied that ‘right to livelihood’ is borne out of the ‘right to life’, as no person can live without the means of living, that is, the means of Livelihood.

Introduction

One of the most pressing issues affecting the international community today is the issue of climate change. Increased carbon dioxide emissions, coupled with release of water vapour, nitrous oxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons, have led to the greenhouse effect. This has further resulted in global warming, which has especially increased since the mid-twentieth century. Climate change has had a visible impact on people and ecosystems, especially in the form of melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and intense heat waves.

INTRODUCTION

Differential voting rights under section 43(a)(ii) of the Companies Act, 2013 are those rights which distinguishes between shares in terms of dividend & voting between their other classes. If we speak about voting and issuing dividends, every shareholder of a company needs right concerning their shareholding. Major shareholders are generally inclined to hold voting rights, while minority shareholders are inclined to hold dividend rights. Promoters are more concerned about voting rights because it helps them to play a significant role in controlling their company. The concept of DVRs helps promoters to maintain power over the company without dilution of their rights, by enabling public investors to own shares with Superior Voting Rights (SR) or lower or fractional voting rights.

Migrant workers are those folks who travel within their country or from their own country to another in search of work. They don’t inhabit permanently at the place where they are labouring. According to ILO “migrant worker is defined as a person who migrates from one country to another (or who has migrated from one country to another) with a view to being employed other than on his own account, and includes any person regularly admitted as a migrant for employment.”

The gaming and sports legal system in India is a relatively new and barely exploited legal field. Sports law is based on how the law generally interacts with sports activity. Sports law has an unusually well-developed pattern of globalized regulation and substantially overlaps with labour law, contract law, criminal law, public law, administrative law, competition law, intellectual property law, law of torts, media law, company law, human rights laws, etc. These laws have been applied to the sporting context involving public order, drugs, security, disciplinary measures, conduct, and broader issues related to trade restriction, anti-competitive behaviour, match-fixing and commercial exploitation of sports. In sports law, issues like defamation and privacy rights are also an integral aspect.