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The founder of Sulabh International, one of India’s best social service organisations, has died of a heart attack. His organisation was at the forefront of eradicating manual scavenging and setting up clean, economic sanitation across the country

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

As the Supreme court took suo motu cognisance, it described Manipur as a state where law and order had completely broken down and where the state police had not only lost control over the situation, but had also been complicit in heinous crimes

The recent Supreme Court order immediately puts Rahul back as an MP, though it has to be seen whether he can attend Parliament during the no-confidence motion deliberations on August 8, 9 and 10. That will depend on when Speaker Om Birla allows the Lok Sabha Secretariat’s notice to take effect

The bone-chilling video of two women being paraded naked in Manipur has brought into question the job of women’s commissions which have been flayed for being laggardly in taking action

The former president Donald Trump appeared in a Washington court after he was indicted for the third time for using illegal means to stay in power. The four-count federal indictment contains a massive amount of evidence against Trump and his lawyers. The Justice Department team led by prosecutor Jack smith has painstakingly reconstructed Trump’s every day and every conversation from mid-October 2020 through January 2021 when Joe Biden was certified as president

The no-confidence motion moved by Gaurav Gogoi is bound to fail as the NDA members are more than twice that of the Opposition. But it is an attempt to put the government on the mat over Manipur

The Kerala High Court has said that bystanders were unwilling to help victims due to needless harassment. Despite laws and guidelines to protect them, the reality is different.