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Justice N Kirubakaran: The Newsmaker Judge

Above: Justice N Kirubakaran has been a permanent judge of the Madras High Court since 2011. Photo: Youtube Known for his unconventional judgments, this Madras High Court judge has often created a ...

Trouble in Tihar

Above: The entrance to Central Jail No. 1 of Tihar Prisons. Photo: Rajeev Tyagi The brutal beating of some prisoners in high-security Tihar Jail recently has opened a can of worms. Who were these c...

An Aadhaar of Dangerous Liaisons

This initiative of the government is fraught with problems as biometric data can get mismatched and cards deactivated, bringing life to a complete standstill ~By Sujit Bhar In the US, some witne...

GI Tag Battle: Sweet Success

The legal row between Odisha and West Bengal over the origin of the rosogolla has ended in the latter’s favour. For many, it’s a sniff of nostalgia and history but getting the GI tag is a bigger story...

Ryan Murder Case: School for Scandal

The investigation has taken an unexpected twist with a senior student being arrested. Why did the Gurugram police charge the wrong person and what happens to him now? Have schools done enough to beef ...

Art of Living in fresh trouble

The NGT has ordered the demolition of a Ravi Shankar temple in Kolkata that violated environment norms ~By Sujit Bhar and Nilanjana Mukherjee The exalted position of religious guru and godman S...

Who is watching the Watchdog?

Above: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre), BJP president Amit Shah (second from left) and others at the Gujarat Gaurav Maha Sammelan in Gandhinagar. Photo: UNI Has Election Commission of India c...

Collegium: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy

Above: Karnataka High Court judge  Justice Jayant Patel (inset); Lawyers protest against Patel’s transfer who was transferred to Allahabad In a surprising move, the apex court has started to give b...

Rohingyas: Dhaka’s refugee nightmare

As some five lakh people fleeing Myanmar pour into Bangladesh, questions are being raised about why it shouldn’t be tried for genocide ~By Prakash Bhandari in Dhaka Even as the Supreme Court of ...

The Bully and the Press

It's now clear that President Trump poses unprecedented threats to freedoms of speech and press. Take Care and Protect Democracy have teamed up to host a forum in which leading scholars consider how w...

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