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While there are laws dealing with obscenity, OTT platforms with frontal nudity and lesbian and homosexual acts seem to have democratised it. Social change is liberalising views on it

India has decided to bid for the 2036 Olympic Games and the government is ready to back the bid. While this is great for sports enthusiasts, one has to be aware of the ills that come to town with this spectacle

The Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, has taken strong exception to High Courts being “tech indifferent” and judges not being tech friendly. He has issued directions to courts to ensure video conferencing and hybrid hearing

Many companies who take loans are unable to repay it and have to either face the lender’s recovery cycles or be stuck in the ever-burdened system of litigation. This is where mediation can come as a big relief for these debtors

The Constitution guarantees Indians the right to protest peacefully, but sometimes laws are broken in the process. A template needs to be put in place to let the symbolism live

Trump managed himself into bankruptcy six times in casinos, airlines, steaks, wine, universities and real estate. His 2016 election required voters to ignore reality or feign amnesia. Understanding this makes Trump less a phenomenon or role model than the ultimate realization of a tradition as old as the nation itself. His bravado at the defense table in a trial where the judge has already ruled him a fraud is his way of reflecting his own hype: Penalties? What’s $250 million to a man like me, his behaviour demonstrates. Despite facing 91 felony counts in four separate criminal cases, he was determined to make the civil suit in New York into a carnival to help his 2024 campaign for US president

The initiative to bring new criminal codes may be an important step to decolonize the law, but it must be comparatively analyzed with respect to existing criminal codes to understand the continuity and disjunction from the existing colonial nature of law. Decolonization of law would be a symbolic gesture if criminal codes in India do not find their historical roots and restore the compassionate ethics emerged and progressed from the spiritual traditions

The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill proposes substantial changes in the law pertaining to digital evidence, but does it help to decolonise the law and secure justice?

While various judgments have given precedence to eyewitness accounts over those of medical experts and convicted the accused, this can shake the confidence of the people in the justice delivery system

By Ashok Bhan The G20 presidency was not only a diplomatic turning point, but Bharat, that is also India, gained high global standing and prestige in shaping a new peaceful world order. Under t...