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Courts are realising the need for restraint within the media

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...

M Venkaiah Naidu elected Vice President

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...

Respect Tharoor’s right to remain silent, Delhi HC tells Republic TV

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...

Nitish Kumar implicated in plagiarism, court fines him Rs 20k

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...

Nainital district now exempt from SC’s liquor ban

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...

Akhila case reaches the Supreme Court

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...

SC grants Bengaluru blast accused interim bail to attend son’s wedding

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...

SC gets tough on unused SEZ land taken from farmers

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...

EC files reply to SC on safety of EVMs

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 ...

Cattle sale will be as per new rules, SC says

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...

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