Above: Calcutta High Court; (inset) Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Calcutta High Court stays proceedings in a suit after a trial court refuses to entertain an advocate’s communication of its order...
Above: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi
The centre, through the Cauvery Water Management Authority, wants to convey that water is a national as...
(Left) Vijay Mallya, leaves after an extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London; (inset)The Kingfisher Villa in Goa. Photo: UNI
The tough provisions in the new law are...
Above: (Clockwise from top left) Ujwala Uppaluri, Apar Gupta, Vrinda Bhandari, Prasanna S, Raman Jit Singh Chima, Gautam Bhatia and Kritika Bhardwaj have tried to develop their own privacy bill, based...
Above: Rural women with mobile phones/Photo courtesy: indianfolk.com
The Chhattisgarh government’s poll-eve decision to distribute 50 lakh smartphones to all BPL card holders has raised questions a...
Above: The petitioner has filed a separate case in the Delhi High Court seeking registration of an FIR against his daughter-in-law
In a scathing indictment of the police, a senior citizen accused o...
Above: A protest against the hartal in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI
The Kerala High Court has cracked down on those who forwarded messages which spawned hartals in north Kerala districts and led ...
Above: HITEC IT Park in Hyderabad
The swanky campuses of IT firms hide the harsh reality of pink slips and bouncers who get unwilling employees to resign. They have now formed a forum and gone to c...
Above: Transgenders at the Queer Cultural Fest in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI
The Kerala HC, accused of judicial overreach for ordering a medical exam on a transgender, rejects a mother’s petitio...
Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence
In an interesting development, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that a wife has the right to know her husband’s salary, thereby upholding a CIC rulin...