The purchase of a product has conventionally also meant acquiring a broad set of rights attached to it. Thus, control was incidental to ownership. However, the rise of access-based consumption and servitisation has separated ownership from the practical ability to control a product throughout its useful life. This tension is apparent in the right to repair. Under servitisation, product users lack formal titles and depend on manufacturers for repair. At present, manufacturers

Credits: National Cadet Corps We generally see the expiry date written on the back of any packaged food, trust it and buy it, but what happens when even these dates can’t be trusted? Recently, between August 24 and 29, 2026. A major food safety raid took place in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, by the Food and Drug Administration under Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. The operation targeted Sadhna Enterprises, where original manufacturing and expiry dates on packaged food products wer

India received $125 billion in remittances in 2023, retaining its position as the world's largest recipient of inward transfers, according to the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief. The figure anchors the national balance of payments, which keeps families afloat in the agrarian heartlands of states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Odisha, where few alternative income sources exist, and finances approximately 23.2 per cent of Kerala's Net State Domestic Pro

The motherhood penalty is the loss a woman faces in the workplace after becoming a mother. In simpler words, the motherhood penalty is an utterly frustrating phenomenon for women facing economic disadvantages after becoming a mother.

This text attempts to trace the legal history and the implications of the latest Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, which, after obtaining the assent of the president, has become an act on 30th March, 2026. This act has replaced the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.