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Two Indians elected as arbitrators

In its new Young Arbitrators Forum, the International Chamber (ICC) of Commerce has named two Indian arbitrators. This is as per the ICC’s 2017-2019 mandate. Arbitrators have been elected from 40 c...

POCSO Act, a case for the age of innocence

Keeping in mind the vulnerability of children, Parliament initiated a process and came up with the POCSO Act. It came into effect on November 14, 2012. POCSO has strong provisions on sexual offences, ...

SC insists on new courts, public prosecutors for POCSO Act cases

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justices DY Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul on April 7 heard a petition filed by Gaurav Kumar Bansal who is crying for the appointment of inde...

Babri case: SC indicates Advani, Joshi may be back in the dock

~By Sujit Bhar As the CBI ended its submission on the high profile December 6, 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case on March 6, the Supreme Court bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Rohinton Fa...

Will not move from our original order on liquor vends, says SC

The Supreme Court has, in its last directive, refused to change anything in its judgement of December 15, 2016, on the alcohol ban beside highways. The directive from the bench, headed by CJI J S K...

Jayalalithaa not to be named convict again, says SC

The late chief minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalithaa, will not have her name blemished in the disproportionate assets corruption case after all. When the Supreme Court decided on the case, throwin...

Facebook-WhatsApp issue sent to constitutional bench

When Facebook acquired WhatsApp, it was said that social media giant Facebook would be using data from the hugely popular WhatsApp to personalize content on its platform. While this was apparently ...

Hazare ‘corruption’ case comes to Supreme Court

Several NGOs, including Shri Kishan Baburao’s (popularly known as Anna Hazare) ‘Hind Swaraj Trust’ that received funds from the Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)...

Banks: Short-changing Customers

These institutions must respect the rights of customers and not rip them off, say depositors, former bankers and activists. It is high time the RBI brought some order into the chaos     ~By Ajith ...

Hate Speech: An Uneasy Compromise

The Law Commission’s recommendations on hate speech and the Apex Court hearing on free speech revive an old debate  ~By VenkatasubramanianIt is not as if our laws are insufficient to tackle hate s...

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