A number of cases have come to the Supreme Court and to other courts in the recent past in which women whose pregnancies have run over 20 weeks have asked for permission to abort. The legal maximum li...
Above: Shafin Jahan (left) and Hadiya
The inter-religion marriage between Kerala’s Shafin Jahan and Hadiya (formerly a Hindu girl Akhila, who converted to Islam even before her marriage to Jahan) r...
The Rohtang Pass, a little distance up from Manali in Himachal Pradesh, is a beautiful place, covered in snow, but also, now, full of filth and dirt. Vehicular pollution has made the area polluted and...
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has filed a PIL with the Delhi High Court seeking a time-bound court-monitored multi-disciplinary probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress leader Shashi T...
Above: The latest spate of deaths at BRD Hospital was reported on August 27, 28 and 29, 2017 Photo: UNI
With the state government silent, can the courts take suo motu action, is the question
As ...
Attorney General assures top court that Aadhaar-related benefits for welfare schemes will be extended to Dec. 31
With the privacy matter related to Aadhaar already settled by the Supreme Court, thr...
On the second day of the fresh cross examination of finance and defence minister Arun Jaitley by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s counsels—senior advocate Anup Chaudhari and advocate Anupam Sriv...
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been packed off to jail and he has said that he will appeal to the high court against the special CBI court’s judgment.
Meanwhile, it would be pertinent to know what mad...
Above: Self-styled godman Rampal (centre). Photo: UNI
A day after superstar godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim was sent to 20 years in prison for raping two of his ‘sevikas’ at his Panchkula Dera Sacha Sauda...
Above: The Purana Qila lake has now completely dried up. Photo: Anil Shakya
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday (August 29) directed that a senior official of the Archaeological Survey of ...