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Women judges: Cracking the Glass Ceiling?

Can the elevation of women as chief justices of High Courts be a sign of gender equality in the judiciary or is this a mere coincidence?  ~By Venkatasubramanian When things happen for the first ti...

Cell phone radiation: Tower of Discontent

A plea by a cancer-stricken man led the apex court to direct BSNL to deactivate one of its mobile towers. But it raises complex legal and scientific questions ~By VenkatasubramanianHarish Chand Tiw...

India gets HIV/AIDS bill with penal provisions to prevent bias against patients

The land of much discrimination takes the right step in the right direction by passing the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2017 ~By Sujit Bhar Over the years, India has added another...

The Cow Card

A petition on increasing communal vigilantism led the Supreme Court to issue notices to six states. Can the government afford to turn a blind eye to them? ~By Kalyani Shankar The cow, a revered an...

HUDA saves liquor barons while strangling a working journalists’ colony

~By Sanjay Ahirwal Summer has come much earlier this year for the bureaucrats in Haryana. So many of them are out on the roads under the blistering sun, machines in hand, measuring distances. Gone ...

Kulbhushan Jadhav Case: Deep State “Justice”

Death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav, the former Indian naval officer by a military court, is just a pawn being used by Pak to strengthen its case against India ~By Col R Hariharan The death sent...

Liquor Ban: On the Rocks

The loss of livelihood and revenue to states due to the ban on highway liquor vends is huge. But with data showing that drunkenness leads to more accidents, this cocktail is not heady  ~By Venkatasu...

Govt shifts blame for low number of women judges on the judiciary

Tussle resumes even as top four high courts now have women chief justices The government used the first opportunity it got to hit back at the judiciary, giving another twist to the on-going judge...

The Badminton Racket

The arrest of a former top official of the Badminton Association of India for sexual crimes exposes the murky underbelly of an organisation that controls a sport which has given India two Olympic meda...

SC takes up HIV-infected children’s right to education

The apex court recently admitted a PIL from NGO Naz Foundation and asked states to bring a notification for giving compulsory education to children living with or affected by HIVThe spread of educatio...

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