Above: Photo Courtesy The Hindu
~By Dilip Bobb
On the anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s emergency, a look back at the 18 months of censorship and its effect on the media
The large media turnout...
Above: Inside the Patna High Court record room. The apex court held that if reconstruction and retrial are not possible due to loss of basic records, the accused can be acquitted/Photo: Prashant Panji...
(Left) Sanji Ram, one of the main accused in the Kathua rape case; BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been booked in the Unnao rape case
The proponents of such a database believe it will have a deter...
Above: A representative image of a gutka shop. The illicit business of gutka in Tamil Nadu is worth several hundred crores
With the apex court upholding a Madras High Court judgment ordering a CBI ...
Above: Arvind Kejriwal (centre) with his ministers Manish Sisodia (left), Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai at the Lt Governor’s residence/Photo courtesy: twitter
Even as the AAP’s strike inside the L-G...
The latest edition of the India Legal show discussed the ‘Citizen Charter and Transparency’. The show deliberated on whether Citizen Charter was just on paper and how serious the government was on imp...
Despite the crying need for speeding up and modernising the grossly inefficient justice delivery system, a large chunk of the meagre funds allotted in the Budget remains unused
~By Usha Rani Das
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Above: Children at the morning assembly of a private school in Kerala
The new guidelines introduced by the Kerala government for schools under the Board were slammed by the Supreme Court, which uph...
Above: ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan was working on the cryogenic rocket technology at ISRO in Thiruvananthapuram when he was arrested in 1994
Nambi Narayanan, the ISRO scientist wrongly accused o...