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The Supreme Court today expressed reservations over Delhi’s Lieutenant General (LG) VK Saxena’s interference in an election process for the appointment of the sixth member of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) standing committee. A BJP candidate had eventually been elected to the post after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress boycotted the September 27 election to protest the LG's actions. Subsequently, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi proceeded to challenge the election before the Supreme...

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Bittersweet Row

The controversy over the alleged use of animal fat for making laddoos of this shrine has reached the apex court, where petitions have urged the formation of an independent panel to probe the matter

What is Sacrilege?

Many cases have come to courts over alleged disrespect to temples and their traditions. And violators have been pulled up and warned not to defame Hindu culture and beliefs

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Water Woes

India is seeking to renegotiate the Treaty due to a confluence of political, environmental and security challenges. There is also a legal impasse over Pakistan wanting international arbitration in the issue

A Limited Mandate

The interim government has many tasks before it, but it will not be easy to deal with them as the constitution has no provision for such a government. These are best left to an elected government

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Save the Children

A landmark verdict has reinterpreted the POCSO Act so as to provide a stronger legal structure to curb child porn and proposed a new term for this offence to differentiate from adult pornography

Downhill To Election 2024

The five weeks before the US presidential election on November 5 is filled with equal measures of peril and promise, not always shared equally by the candidates. This is especially true where one campaign has momentum while the other mostly offers grievances and conspiracy theories at fewer rallies than in 2016 or 2020. Will it be Indian-American Kamala Harris, as the first female president, or the chaos of retribution that Trump says will be a part of his return?

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By Kenneth Tiven Two events involving former US President Donald Trump demonstrate the intensity of political behaviour with America’s presidential election just seven weeks away.   On Sunday, a man with a rifle was spotted hiding in woods adjacent to where Trump was playing golf in Florida. The man fled as a Secret Service officer fired in his direction. He was caught minutes later. This took place at a location one hole ahead of where Trump was playing. Trump was not physicall...