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As the current Chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, India will hold a meeting of Heads of State Council in July 2023. It must work at mentoring other SCO nations in their transformation too. 

The brazen murder of Atiq Ahmed and his brother, captured live on television cameras, has once again focused on the ferocity and frequency of police encounter deaths in Uttar Pradesh. That the murder took place during a press interview conducted by the police only adds to the questions surrounding the motivation of the state and its police force.

After Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote to Amit Shah expressing his displeasure over qualifying tests for CRPF constables being held only in English and Hindi, a decision was taken to have them in 13 languages for CAPF exams from next year.

A case of a man being chargesheeted for killing a rat has raised eyebrows. But researchers have found that animal abusers are often exposed to abuse themselves and likely to take it out on society later.

Controversy swirls around US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas regarding ethical issues from not reporting decades of substantial gifts from an activist, moneyed Republican donor. His response in this case, exposed by ProPublica, a non-profit journalism organization, resulted in a rare public statement that essentially confirmed the report. It brings into focus the rules of ethics followed by federal judges at all levels.

Abysmally low wages for prisoners has put a question mark on prison reforms. Recommendations of the All India Jail Reforms Committee have only partially been implemented by states.

While social media has had a positive impact on the legal system and made dissemination of information to clients easier, issues of confidentiality and privacy too have to be tackled

In an effort to make organ donation easier and wider, India has waived off the 65 years’ age limit for it. However, societal attitudes and technology hurdles are formidable challenges.

The Supreme court has directed that Narayan Chetanram Chaudhary be set free forthwith from the correctional home in which he remains imprisoned as he suffered imprisonment for more than 28 years after his arrest in 1994. He was a juvenile at that time.

Donald Trump has earned the dubious distinction for the first ever indictment of any president in American history for a criminal act. Arraignment for the as-yet-unrevealed indictment is the result of a New York Grand Jury probing an improper $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election.