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At first glance, the Bills have simply juggled British-era provisions and changed the nomenclature. But will the flaws in the system be addressed and procedures improved for quick punishment of the accused?

Even as courts accept documents via WhatsApp, legal professionals and technology providers should establish guidelines to safeguard the integrity of court proceedings

Even as Assam gears up to introduce the law, the question is whether states should spend valuable time and resources passing such laws when a UCC will make them irrelevant

The Bill raises questions about the future autonomy of IIMs as it has proposed that the president will be the Visitor with the power to audit, order probes and appoint and remove directors

While various judgments have said that a police officer has to register a Zero FIR if a cognizable offence is not committed within the jurisdiction of his police station, Manipur has shown that this doesn’t happen

The deaths of nine cheetahs, translocated from Africa, in 130 days in Kuno National Park, MP, have brought Project Cheetah under the scanner. Will better sense prevail so that they are taken to other sanctuaries?

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has put a stop to rampant bulldozing of private property by the Haryana government which declared that these were properties owned by criminal elements. The demolitions were done without court orders

An oversight subcommittee in the US Congress confirmed that the federal government has spent nearly 75 years hiding evidence that extraterrestrials have visited Earth. Star witness at the hearing was David Grusch, a former intelligence official, who said credible people told him that “non-human biologics” were found at alleged crash sites

A recent incident of a case being registered against a microphone for howling during a speech by the Kerala CM has brought out the ludicrousness of seeing inanimate objects as living entities

A recent award of Rs 2 crore by the Delhi High Court to a defamed army officer has sparked a debate about the defamation law impinging on the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression