The past month has shown the travails caused by demonetization and the collateral damage it has left behind in all spheres of the economy. Have Modi’s achhe din truly eluded the common man?
By Aj...
Economics professor ARUN KUMAR is one of the most widely quoted authors on black money. He has authored The Black Economy in India (Penguin, 1999) and Indian Economy since Independence: Persisting C...
Twenty-four years after four women from Punjab were branded on their foreheads as pickpockets, the guilty policemen have got away with a mild punishment by a CBI court
By Vipin Pubby in Chandigarh
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A bill to ban commercial surrogacy is fraught with complications that will invariably drive it underground, endangering the health and interests of the surrogate mother
By Ramesh Menon
Couples h...
At a felicitation ceremony for this “Father of Modern Legal Education in India”, many issues were discussed including the need for more law schools in every state and use of technology to bring down p...
The Chief Justice of India has once again highlighted the paucity of judges and the delay in filling the vacancies as over 22 lakh cases pile up taking years to be heard
By Ramesh Menon
Justice ...
Eminent panelists debate issues related to the draconian provisions of Section 124-A
The Ramya controversy and the Amnesty International incident have once again triggered volatile reactions on sedi...
There are questions and issues that cast a shadow on the integrity of the loquacious PIL lawyer
By India Legal Bureau
It is rightly said that Prashant Bhushan is a man who loves wearing differen...
A Mumbai man’s effort to rescue his Pakistani beloved from a forced marriage lands him in jail. For his hapless parents, it has become an ongoing battle to bring their son back home
By Neeta Kolhat...
It is not anti-national to express dissent but in the light of the current crisis in Kashmir, it is inappropriate for people of stature to be shooting from the hip on issues such as referendum and ple...