IDDAT

The concept of Iddat is very significant in Islamic Law. Iddat is the period in which a Muslim woman has to observe after dissolution of marriage. In this period woman has to remain in seclusion and is abstain from marrying another person or, it can be also be said that,…

DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Many important events and revolutions contributed towards the development of human rights. First, the earliest charters of human rights are to be found among the three British Constitutional documents, namely the Magna Carta (1215 AD), the Petition of Rights (1628 AD) and the Bill of Rights (1689). These three documents…

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

The political philosophy of liberalism has been subject of criticism at the hands of its advocates as well as its opponents, by the former on account of their polemical interpretations and by the latter, on account of their indictment of the premises of individualism. Both as a doctrine and as…

BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE

The Council of States is the Upper House of India’s bicameral Parliament. The adoption of bicameral legislature for the Union of India is guided by three sets of reasons. First, Rajya Sabha as the name implies, was to be chamber for representing and protecting the rights of the states in…