Three incidents in the recent past highlight sections that refuse to climb down from sensationalising
~By Sujit Bhar
Three cases at two Delhi courts recently have highlighted the inherent restra...
Ruling NDA’s candidate M Venkaiah Naidu was elected Vice President of India with 516 votes out of 785 votes polled. Opposition’s candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi got 244 votes.
As Vice President, Naid...
Above: (L-R) Arnab Goswami and Shashi Tharoor
While not actually ordering a gag, the Delhi High Court’s Justice Manmohan on Friday (August 6) asked Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV to not go after Cong...
A complaint of plagiarism wouldn’t exactly be out of place in Bihar. The state has earned its stripes in the world of unethical examination protocols. This is a fact. However, when a plagiarism allega...
Above: The SC-imposed liquor ban was lifted from most areas of the Nainital district. Photo: YouTube
More areas in India are now exempt from the Supreme Court’s ban on the sale of liquor within 50...
Above: Shafin Jahan (left) and wife Hadia. Image sourced from Jahan’s Facebook page
A special leave petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, challenging the Kerala High Court’s judgment in the...
Above: Abdul Nasser Madani
Abdul Nasser Madani, the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts accused, has been granted a second interim bail, this time for 14 days (August 6 to 19), to attend his son’s weddi...
SEZ Farmers Protection Welfare Association, an NGO, had petitioned the Supreme Court on Special Economic Zone (SEZ) land—acquired from farmers for industry by governments—lying unused.
The complain...
A petition had been filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma in connection with the issue of tampering of EVMs. As per the petitioner, since 1982 the EVMs were not reliable and ballot papers were hundred ...
With Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar on Friday (August 4) submitting before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and DY Chandrachud that the central government had already (in May 2017) n...