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Vineet Bhalla
Vineet Bhalla is a senior correspondent at The Indian Express. He writes primarily for the Explained page. He has previously worked as a legal correspondent at Scroll and as an assistant editor at The Leaflet. Prior to shifting towards journalism, he had stints working in legal policy research, governance consulting, and at a legal education non-profit. He is a lawyer by training and holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.
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Over the past decade, platform-based workers across the world have raised similar demands as in India — predictable incomes, social security, safety at work and protection against arbitrary termination
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On December 3, the SC upheld as legal the 2001 Assam government appointments of 40 former insurgents and anti-insurgency campaigners but denied reinstatement citing the passage of time, a ruling the litigants call a half victory.
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Mon, Dec 22, 2025
How India proposes to deal with legal challenges posed by AI to copyright lawSubscriber Only
December 20, 2025 13:46 IST
A working paper from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade provides an insight into how India may address the use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models
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December 19, 2025 16:25 IST
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