The fact that even a life-term prisoner has rights in a democracy was amply demonstrated by the Bombay High Court on Friday (July 15) when it granted a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the detention of a...
Above: Voters standing in a queue to cast their votes, at a polling booth, during the fifth phase of West Bengal Assembly Election (file picture). Photo: PIB
Despite the Representation of the Peopl...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had complained to the Supreme Court that its “communications and guidelines (for protection and enforcement of human rights) have remained only on paper and...
Above: (L-R) Ramachandra Guha, N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah
Guha, Limaye relieved from CoA; contempt proceedings against Thakur dropped
The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators ...
During the hearing of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Rs 10 crore criminal defamation suit against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and some others in the Aam Aadmi Party at the Delhi High Court in the ...
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra, AM Khanwilkar and Mohan M Shantanagoudar is hearing a PIL by Kamlesh Vaswani, seeking for a ban on pornography and especially child pornography on the ...
Above: There have been several protests against AFSPA in Manipur. Photo: UNI
The Supreme Court on Friday (July 14) enforced the law of the land on Manipur by ordering CBI probes into several cases ...
Above: Villagers participating in a Mahapanchayat related to the Junaid Khan lynching case in Palwal, Haryana. Khan was allegedly killed on a suburban train in June. Photo: UNI
While a petition has...
Above: Social boycott instigated by caste panchayats is a cognizable offense in Maharashtra. Photo: PIB
In the midst of caste politics, communal chaos and mob lynchings across the country come as a...
Above: BSF patrolling along the India-Bangladesh international border. Photo: UNI
The fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border has been going on at a slow pace. Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha has appea...