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Hazardous and toxic waste import case comes up again in SC

Above: Toxic wastes strewn in a ship-breaking yard. Photo: YouTube   The Supreme Court bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha is hearing a petition by scholar and activist Vandana Shiva, di...

SC bench to decide whether a Parliamentary committee report is a document to be referred to in a case

A critical issue of whether the Supreme Court can consider as a reference point a report prepared by a Parliamentary standing committee on a particular issue has been referred to a constitution bench ...

To catch money launderers the legislature has to amend Schedule Part A of Act

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence ~By Aabad Ponda The legislature seems to have omitted to incorporate offences of criminal misappropriation, punishable under section 403 and 404 of the I...

Pro Bono Work: Charity Begins in Court

While the government may consider such aid by advocates in order to elevate them as judges, its implementation is tough ~By Justice Narendra Chapalgaonkar The legal profession is one of the most...

Section 498A, the Last Resort

Above: Women protesting against the dilution of Section 498A in Delhi; (inset) Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. Photo: K.M Vasudevan/lawyerscollective.org Decades of activism were undone when th...

Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s son arrested for terror funding

Above:  Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s son has been arrested for terror funding. Photo: UNI Barely a day after the government appointed an interlocutor in Kashmir, the National Investiga...

Farooq Abdullah says interlocutor should talk to Pak also to resolve the crisis

Above: (Left) Farooq Abdullah and Dineshwar Sharma    In an interesting shift from its hard-line stance on Kashmir, the BJP has now decided to resolve the Kashmir ongoing imbroglio through dialogue...

SC imposes Rs 2 lakh fine on environment ministry

Above: A smoke emanating from a factory. Photo: Anil Shakya The Supreme Court bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta on Tuesday (October 24) inposed a cost of Rs 2 lakh on the environmen...

Delhi Durbar

Rahul’s Rising Graph His elevation as president of the Congress in a few days could not have had a better prelude. In the past six weeks, his image and strategy have undergone a remarkable change. Pa...

You don’t have to stand up at a cinema hall to prove patriotism, says Justice Chandrachud

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a plea to modify its order that made the playing of the national anthem in cinema halls mandatory, even as the Centre opposed the move. The apex court...

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