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Future Retail vs Amazon: Highlights from Delhi HC order-There is nothing in the Arbitration Act that prohibits the contracting parties from obtaining emergency relief from an emergency arbitrator. #ImportantPrecedent It
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The provisions on "instructing or hindering" shop workers are new, certainly - but in legal terms, most of this Bill is just cosmetic. Assaulting retail workers is already a criminal
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#OTD 75 years ago today, the results of the 1945 election were announced, leading to the creation of the Attlee government, the first ever with a Labour majority. Here we
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‘History should not be sanitised’ say some historically illiterate Tory MPs. Churchill, a great leader as he certainly was, was also a rabid eugenicist who drafted the Mental Deficiency Act
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"Armenian opposition gives Pashinyan until noon on Tuesday to resign." ...or what? The 17 parties listed here can barely fill one rally on Opera Square. Only one of them has
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A few weeks ago there was an moment in the Indian parliament. A member of the opposition spoke against Modi's neoliberal agricultural reforms & in support of the farmers' protest
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In any other country Biden would be retired.https://twitter.com/GrahamVyse/status/1339574821299040265 UK Joe Biden was probably one of the older ministers in the Blair years, and left parliament years ago. Would have given
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So, the Ag Bill has officially become law, after three long years. Here's a little tweet thread to take you down memory lane on some of the big battleshttps://www.fginsight.com/news/agriculture-bill-officially-becomes-law-after-receivin
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The RBZ-ZAMCO-CBZ axis1. This thread is a summary of a section of the #BSR this week. I explain the opaque arrangements concerning a state entity called ZAMCO and how large
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[A Thread] @AlanTudgeMP's mother was born in Scotland. Her mother was Canadian. This made her a dual UK and Canadian citizen (by descent - automatically). Prior to 2009, anybody born
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Today's Westminster Hall Parliamentary debate on a petition calling for a Minister for Hospitality in the UK Government starts at 4.30pm - just over 5 minutes' time! We'll be live-tweeting
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Small thread on the procedure cttee yesterday, because I'm a fun guy. Challenged by MPs on why they were not reducing 2m rule, Clerk of the House John Benger said
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Two weeks apart in two democracies. Two monuments to democracy breached. Two capital city’s police attacked. This is what fake news, conspiracy theories and religious radicalization wrought.This is hard for
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Democracy under threat Britain's claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deepGeorge Monbiot (03/06/20)https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/03/britain-democracy-tories-coronavirus-public-power?CMP=Share_Androi
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An old tweet from Cummings account, taking back control to give control to in contempt of Parliament data thief.he criticises @carolecadwalla calling it bad journalism, if you are guilty of
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In case you missed this telling development: the parliament of the Primorsky Krai changed the region's electoral law to increase the number of single-mandate districts (from 20 to 30) to
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