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SLAPP Attack!

Filing Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation has become the first choice of action for big businesses to threaten journalists and activists who expose their corrupt practices. A recent SC ru...

Prashant Bhushan Files Petition Against Rising Animal Cruelty; Supreme Court Demands Reply From Centre

Prashant Bhushan, on behalf of an NGO called Angel Trust, filed a petition in Supreme Court against rising animal cruelty. The petition demanded stricter laws to stop those who unleash cruelty on anim...

Petition Filed Challenging Bar Council of India Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015

A petition was filed challenging the Bar Council of India Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015. The Rules mandate that all advocates whose names appear on the state rolls ma...

States Won’t Be Allowed To Conduct Entrance Exams – Supreme Court’s Final Verdict On #NEET

Today, Supreme Court heard all arguments presented by various States and Private institutions, and then announced its final verdict. The bench had reserved their order, and uploaded late evening. ...

Bailable warrants against Punjab officers for not appearing before NGT

Taking strict note of repeated absence of authorities from Punjab in the case regarding groundwater pollution in the state, the National Green Tribunal has issued bailable warrants in the sum of Rs 10...

Cost of wasting court’s time? Rs 50 lakh each for Star, BCCI

The Supreme Court on Friday slapped a fine of Rs 50 lakh each on Star India Private Limited and BCCI for wasting court’s time, saying that big corporate houses must acknowledge the value of court’s ti...

Those watching cricket on TV have stake in the game: CJI

We must take into consideration interest of people watching cricket on television as they have a stake in the game for viewership and popularity depends on the number of viewers. Chief Justice of Indi...

Naveen Jindal, Koda in the dock as CBI court gets ready to frame charges

A special CBI court in New Delhi has ordered framing of charges against industrialist Naveen Jindal, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayana Rao, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda a...

Water crisis in Marathwada: Chronicle of a Drought Foretold

A visit to this parched region of Maharashtra shows the daily struggle of people for water and how advance emergency measures could have mitigated the distress By Vivian Fernandes in Latur Dri...

Water catastrophe: Dripping with Misery

In India, 75 million are deprived of sufficient water. Over the last 50 years, per capita availability of fresh water has declined from 3,000 cubic meters to 1,123 cubic meters. The global average is ...

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