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  'Colonial laws source of British oppression, exploitation': PM Modi at event on three criminal laws

  India | December 03, 2024 14:25 IST

  New criminal laws: Three new criminal laws— Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bhartiya Sakshya Adhiniyam— have replaced the erstwhile IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act respectively.

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  'No voice and bare faces': Taliban's new 'vice' laws impose tighter restrictions on women

  World | August 22, 2024 23:32 IST

  Afghanistan's new laws issued by the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” impose fresh curbs on women, such as their voices and bare faces. Women are banned from singing or reading aloud in public and looking at men they are not related to by blood or marriage.

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  Hong Kong enacts Article 23: How will contentious new national security law affect common people?

  Explainers | March 19, 2024 19:08 IST

  The news Hong Kong law threatens stringent penalties for a wide range of actions authorities call threats to national security, with the most severe — including treason and insurrection — punishable by life imprisonment.

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  Triple Talaq: SC issues notice to Centre on plea against new law; agrees to examine validity

  India | August 23, 2019 11:33 IST

  A bench of justices N V Ramana and Ajay Rastogi issued notice the Centre on a batch of petitions which has sought to declare The Muslim Women  Act 2019 as "unconstitutional" on grounds that it allegedly violates the provisions of the Constitution.  

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  Sri Lanka Imposes New Laws To Hold Terror Suspects

  World | September 01, 2011 21:20 IST

  Colombo, Sept 1: Sri Lanka will continue to detain hundreds of terror suspects and outlaw the defeated rebel Tamil Tiger group despite wartime state of emergency laws being lifted, an official said Thursday. The laws