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The Indian social hierarchy of caste has become an issue in the city of Seattle, Washington. Caste discrimination has been added to an existing ordinance to do with race, religion and gender identity. What’s behind the caste issue?

Air India’s order of 470 aircraft—with another option of 370 on the table—is the largest order ever, but money management will be the key if a tailwind has to be kept alive.

Writing has also often been trimmed of content so as to ensure it is politically correct. Recently Roald Dahl’s children’s books has been through such censorship. The problems arise when censorship extends to adulthood—often curtailing freedom of speech and expression.

Medical colleges have often been found to flout norms and the orders of courts and increase the number of seats for admission. For defying court orders, the penalty is heavy and runs into crores.

Uttarakhand has brought in an ordinance to crack down on paper leaks and use of unfair means with hefty fines and jail terms. Can law eliminate cheating in exams, especially for recruitment to government jobs?

Sexual harassment of women at their workplace is of growing concern and the courts are now coming down heavily on companies where such instances occur, in which the long drawn out procedure causes more problems than it solves.

Donald Trump’s bid to win the Republican nomination for US president in 2024 has run into stumbling blocks. Indian-American politician Nikki Haley announced she was running for president against her former boss. Meanwhile, an Atlanta prosecutor is probing possible criminal interference by Trump in the 2020 election in Georgia.

The Gauhati HC’s anticipatory bail to nine men accused under POCSO shows there is no presumption of sexual assault in every case of child marriage. Most are consensual and need to be handled with care.

Post-retirement sinecure may displease a section of politicians, but every colour of political party has been complicit in somewhat manipulating a small section of the judiciary to its own narrow end. Only drastic changes can make this go away.

The Bombay HC slammed the tendency by district judiciary to rubber stamp bail orders as they lacked reasoned elaboration. But the culture of summary justice is widely prevalent. Can algorithmic justice help? Or would it be regarded as deficient in due process?