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Supreme Court refuses to stay Madras High Court order quashing Tamil Nadu government use of temple funds for marriage halls

The Supreme Court of India recently declined to stay the Madras High Court’s judgment that quashed a Tamil Nadu government order permitting the construction of marriage halls using funds from five temples. The original government order had authorized the use of surplus temple funds for building marriage halls, but the High Court held that this violated the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Act, 1959, and associated rules. The bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta he...

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A Resounding Rebuke

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An order of the Bombay High Court’s Kolhapur bench, granting anticipatory bail to a 26-year-old farmer accused of forcibly marrying and raping his 14-year-old niece, spawns questions galore. The utter confusion in the litigants’ submissions and the Court’s reaction scripts an interesting case study
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Six decades after it was officially banned in India, the spectre of dowry still hangs over many corners of the country. Last week, a 28-year-old woman living less than an hour from the nation’s capital was burnt alive, allegedly by her husband and mother-in-law, over an additional dowry demand. Such cases are reported with alarming frequency, laying bare one of Indian society’s gravest failings
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TERES launches Singapore office, marking global expansion of Indian legal-tech pioneer

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TERES (Technology Enabled RESolution), India’s trailblazing legal technology company and the first to introduce AI-powered transcription services at the Supreme Court of India, has officially launched its Singapore office at Maxwell Chambers Suites. The inaugural ceremony was graced by key dignitaries including Dr Shilpak Ambule, High Commissioner of India to Singapore, VK Rajah SC, former Attorney General of Singapore, Abhinav Bhushan, Sapna Jhangiani KC, and several senior judges and arbit...
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Regaining Lost Ground?

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The vote chori rhetoric and the Adani-Ambani pitch raked up by Rahul Gandhi during the Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar seems to have found resonance with the electorate in the state and rattled the BJP, perhaps leading PM Modi to seize on the alleged attack on his mother during the march
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Tuition Nation

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A new National Sample Survey lays bare the harsh truth—urban students are nearly compelled to take private tuitions to survive examinations, exposing the failures of India’s schooling system and raising uncomfortable questions for policymakers
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The Idle Wealth of Religion

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The immense wealth that lies within Indian temples and other religious institutions have for long been eyed by political actors. This tug-of-war has existed over centuries and millennia through several conquests. A recent Madras High Court ruling shows how that tussle continues

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