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Late Meeting with the Late Naipaul

Above: Photo courtesy www.bollywoodlife.com     ~By Dilip Bobb Well before the encounter actually took place, meeting Vidia Naipaul seemed a daunting prospect. That was mainly because of the int...

Somnath Chatterjee, barrister and parliamentarian par excellence, dies at 89

Somnath Chatterjee: Born July 25, 1929 in Tezpur, Assam; Died August 13, 2018 (aged 89) in Kolkata, West Bengal/Photo: ANI Somnath Chatterjee, to old timers in then Calcutta, was better known as a ...

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Priyanka’s New Role For long, the Congress party has seen Priyanka Gandhi as the “brahmastra” it can use when faced with an insurmountable challenge. With less than a year to go for the Lok Sabha p...

Triple Talaq Bill deferred to next session for lack of consensus in Rajya Sabha

Even after a year following the Supreme Court’s five-judge bench (judges from five different faiths) declared talaq-e-biddat or instant triple talaq unconstitutional and not an essential part of Islam...

Bhushan Steel’s former promoter Singhal is first arrest of SFIO

There has been, finally, an arrest in the huge NPA scandal that has shaken the entire banking world of India, with the authorities getting teeth in the form of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO...

Kerala Solar Scam: Sex, sleaze and a letter

Former Kerala CM Oommen Chandy has testified against Pathanapuram MLA KB Ganesh Kumar in the Solar Scam case. The scam had nearly brought down the Chandy government in 2015 ~By N V Ravindranathan Nai...

In this globalised world, Indian judiciary has benefitted in borrowing from international judicial approaches: CJI Misra

Above: Chief Justice Dipak Misra delivering his speech at the Assocham conclave in New Delhi on Tuesday. Picture Anil Shakya Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday (August 7) cited the Supreme Court’s ...

Karunanidhi passes away, Madras HC directs govt to provide space for memorial near Anna Memorial

Above: DMK leaders after hearing the Madras High Court verdict in Chennai on Wednesday. Picture courtesy DMK Twitter handle The death of long-ailing DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi in Chennai late Tuesd...

Rajya Sabha passes bill including death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years

The Rajya Sabha on Monday (August 6) passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2018 mandating a maximum penalty of death to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The bill had alrea...

Uniform Civil Code: One Nation, One Law?

Above: By taking up the issue of female genital mutilation practised by the Bohra community, the apex court has shown that it is treading with the times Triple Talaq, Sabarimala and genital mutilat...

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