While many have welcomed the judgment on copyright violations, some have serious reservations about it. Here are three of them
By Sampad Patnaik
One of the main arguments of the defendants in th...
Despite war clouds looming on the horizon, a plaintive plea from the Forces asks the powers-that-be to bring about pay parity between the Services and their civilian counterparts so that their morale ...
The brutal gang rape and murder of a girl has led to protests across Maharashtra and a demand for reservations and abolishing of the Prevention of Atrocities Act. This will culminate in Mumbai by Octo...
In a sign of growing tension, the Tamil Nadu government has not given enough funds for the judiciary, forcing the Madras High Court to pass an anguished order in this regard
By R Ramasubramanian ...
The climate agreement of December 2015 needs to be ratified by at least 55 of 174 countries. India still has to do it but is using it as a lever to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group
By Darryl D’Mont...
The former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s deals have divested thousands of poor farmers of their land, and these have now come to haunt him as law enforcing authorities close in on him
By Vipin...
All too often, environmental laws are breached with impunity. A National Green Tribunal ruling has put paid to Numaligarh Refinery’s encroachment into reserve forests in an elephant corridor in Assam
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Journalists who report from conflict zones and cover politics and corruption often pay with their lives, as underpinned in a recent report by an international media watchdog
By Karan Kaus...
The landmark verdict on Singur by the Supreme Court will hit West Bengal’s economy and be cited in future agitations as industry and agriculture battle for this fast-depleting, precious resource
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There is much more to the recent controversy related to Siwan leader Mohammad Shahabuddin than meets the eye. He is merely a player in the political script written by Lalu Prasad to preserve his own l...