Above: Under the paper-ballot system, voters could check the accuracy of the ballot paper, candidate’s name and symbol. Under the electronic voting system, they cannot. Photo: UNI
Advanced democrac...
The Supreme Court on Monday provided Booker Prize winning author and activist Arundhati Roy a breather when it stayed the criminal contempt proceedings against her, initiated in 2015 by the Bombay Hig...
Above: A representative picture of an operation for abortion. Photo: abortionuae.com
Kolkata’s Sarmishtha Chakraborty finally got the okay from the Supreme Court to terminate her 26-week pregnancy....
As the matter of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala came up for hearing before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and
Justice DY Chandrachud on Monday (July...
Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Sunday (July 2), while again refusing India’s request for consular access to Indian ex-naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, said that it would be a “travesty of logic” to see ...
Former Calcutta High Court judge CS Karnan’s attempts to get himself released from jail have failed. His oral appeal, through his lawyer Mathews J Nedumpara, for an urgent hearing of the matter was on...
The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice DY Chandrachud on Monday (July 3) gave the Maharashtra government a final two-week extension of time for the removal of encroachers from ...
Above: A SpiceJet aircraft. Photo: Wikimedia.org
The Delhi High Court bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Yogesh Khannaon on Monday (July 3) dismissed an appeal by budget airline SpiceJet and its...
The law has come close to putting Himachal Pradesh’s longest serving chief minister Virbhadra Singh behind bars. On Monday (July 3) the Delhi High Court refused to quash the money laundering case agai...
Above: A government school in Uttarakhand. Photo: uttarakhand.org.in/Sanjay Nautiyal
The Uttarakhand High Court has come down heavily on the state administration for not being able to provide ev...