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India Legal News: If someone told me a decade back that for election publicity purposes a candidate can do without the ‘internet’ I still could have believed him then, NOT TODAY. The spiraling influence of the electronic and online media combined with the traditional media is increasing by the day and best or the worst part is that the outcome is not predictable but influential.

Lavin Hirani, LLM(UK), LLB, is an esteemed Media & Entertainment Lawyer at Naik Naik & Co. Advocates. His practise areas include Intellectual Property and Media, Criminal Law, International and Domestic Arbitration, Media and Entertainment, Civil Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, Economic Law and European Competition.

Divorce is the formal termination or legal dissolution of a marriage. Every nation has distinct laws safeguarding the rights of both the spouses in a marriage. In India, the laws take into account religious distinctions. Divorce of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains is governed by the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, divorce of Muslims is governed by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act of 1939 and Christians need to follow the laws laid down under the Indian Divorce Act of 1869. There are separate laws for inter-cast or inter-religion marriages. These fall under the Special Marriage Act of 1954.

The press or media acts as a watchdog of democracy. In fact, post-independence, the India press has played a vital role in restraining corruption and injustice in the nation. The press is also instrumental in arousing the general public’s interest in the government and its operations. However, like everything else, there is a flipside to this as well. Over the last few years, yellow journalism has been rampant in Indian press, which has lead to widespread misconducts in the nation.