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The catholicity of marriage in various societies and cultures is ascribed to essential social and personal functions such as sexual gratification and regulation in marital life. Division of labour between sexes, economic production and consumption and quenching personal needs for affection, social status and companionship are also some major factors behind the institution of marriage.

President Joe Biden is making his first court appointment. Will ideologically split political parties treat the nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to a theatrical takedown over issues which have little to do with jurisprudence or judicial temperament?

By Ashok Bhan The ethnic cleansing and exile of Kashmiri Pandits is entirely bigoted, communal and anti-India. The primary intent of killers of both Hindus and Muslims is to achieve secession of J...

By Sanjay Raman Sinha The backbreaking backlog of cases in courts has become a bane to the justice delivery system. The Indian judiciary is facing an ever increasing caseload and a large number of...

By Lokendra Malik and Wazida Rahman The Karnataka High Court’s judgment on the hijab issue sends a wrong message to minorities at a time when they are already facing many difficulties. Several con...

A bomb thrown in a crowded market or at a bus or an apartment block or a suicide bomber blowing himself up leaves behind a huge toll of human lives, suffering and devastation of property. Families are shattered, many men, women and children die.

By Ashit Kumar Srivastava There are talks that the data protection bill might be scraped and a new one introduced. This was following the third round of discussion under consideration in Parliamen...

Told by close advisers in November 2020 that he had lost the election, former US president Donald Trump insisted on lying about this because other advisers told him a plan might work to keep him in the White House.

CJI Ramana asked the A-G to use his good offices to talk to the centre about evacuation of students from Ukraine. The Court is the guardian of fundamental rights and has a good record in protecting them.

Justice Akil Kureshi, the Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, retired on Sunday (March 6) from his office after serving the judiciary for 18 years. He was the senior-most High Court judge in the All-India seniority list of High Court judges. But unfortunately, he was not considered for elevation to the Supreme Court due to reasons best known to the Government and the Supreme Court Collegium.