BEZWADA WILSON’S fight to eradicate manual scavenging in the country began in 1986 when he was only 20. His struggle continues despite Parliament enacting the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Const...
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“With this verdict, I feel when the petition against polygamy is heard, the reaction of Muslims will be more sensible and they will be open to reason,” says the former Uni...
He is not a bureaucrat nor is he an RTI activist. He was a professor at National Law University at Hyderabad before he became Central Information Commissioner. Prof MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR ACHARYULU, 61, u...
Former Solicitor General GOPAL SUBRAMANIUM has had an illustrious career. Starting as a counsel with the Justice AN Verma Commission probing into Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, Subramanium has handled ...
Senior advocate RUPINDER SINGH SURI was elected as the Supreme Court Bar Association president in December 2016. This alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi, has been in the legal profession for four ...
Parliament was recently rocked by arguments among legislators over judicial overreach. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had a tough time answering pointed queries from MPs on what the centre fel...
MANOHAR SINGH GILL served as the Chief Election Commissioner of India from 1996 to 2001. His major achievement has been the introduction of Electronic Voting Machines which curbed malpractices to a la...
DR SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY needs no introduction. He was one of the founding members of the Janata Party which later merged with the BJP. He was a member of the Planning Commission and a cabinet minister in...
iewKTS Tulsi, an Indian politician and senior advocate of the Supreme Court, is noted for representing Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, who was accused by Arvind Kejriwal of having taken an int...
At 33, he is the youngest lawyer to have been elected to the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC). ANIRUDDHA RAJPUT, who has practiced in the Supreme Court for 10 years with a focus on ...