A special court on Wednesday while adjourning the hearing on Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charge sheet has asked the CBI as to what no lie detector test has been conducted on its former speci...
In a major ruling concerning the subordinate judiciary, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that civil judges cannot be appointed by way of direct recruitment to posts of district judges reserved for ...
A Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to file a status report in 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition case till April 3.
The court also granted police more time to seek...
Dr KK Aggarwal
In a far-reaching move, the Union cabinet approved the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020, to increase the upper limit for termination of a pregnancy from 20 we...
Asif Ullah Khan in Jaipur
After life became unbearable in Mirpur Khas (Sindh province), Hemji decided it was time to leave the place where he and his ancestors were born. In 2015, he crossed over t...
Today 92 percent of the world’s population lives in places where fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels exceed WHO guidelines for healthy air. Air pollution and tobacco together are responsible for up...
ALE troops won’t accept women commanders: Government to SC,” “India’s soldiers not ready for women in combat”…these were some of the media headlines that flayed the government for being sexist in arm...
By Anurag Bana and Merle Balki
Technology has ensured that we live in a constantly connected world. Every moment can be cap tured, saved and shared through innovative apps like Facebook, Twitter, I...
By Nupur Dogra
After parliament passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and talk of implementing a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC) started doing the rounds, a string of peacefu...
By Shiv Visvanathan
Majoritarian regimes, with middle class pretensions, have a predictable way of delegitimising protest. The first objection would be that the protest violates the rules of the ga...