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Despite human rights laws and constitutional jurisprudence, the police are still using third degree methods and illegal torture which often lead to custodial deaths. This represents a serious drawback of the legal system.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a surge in gold loans, showing the distressing shape of the economy. But this is an opportunity for public sector banks and they have increased lending in this sector.

By Kenneth Tiven in New York Five conservative justices of the US Supreme Court used an unsigned order to refuse a case that now turns anti-abortion law over to vigilantes in Texas for enforcement...

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana recently said that the issue relating to women’s representation in the judiciary must be highlighted and debated on a large scale. It’s an important issue that deserves serious attention by all stakeholders of the legal profession.

Asserting its primacy in judges’ appointments in the superior judiciary, the Supreme Court collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana has unanimously reiterated its previous recommendations to press the appointments of 12 persons, including three judicial officers, to five High Courts —Rajasthan, Allahabad, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, and Calcutta.

By Vivek K Agnihotri On September 1, 2021, the Delhi High Court sought the government’s stand on a petition challenging the vacancy in the post of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha since the constit...

By Prachi Bajpai The characteristics of Afghanistan was depicted by a British painter in his painting titled “Remains of Army” which portrayed a soldier on an exhausted horse. Another famous photo...

Democracy is a form of government, which is of the people, by the people and for the people. Undoubtedly, the term “people” cannot denote “silent people”, but also those with the right to speak and speak not only what is favourable but what is unfavourable or dissenting. Sans this, democracy would just be a sham.

Aggrieved over the close links between the political class and the police, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana hit out at officers who wanted to be in the good books of the ruling party and misused the rule of law.

Being the Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer, he was willing to listen to my views on politics, sports and other topics, and, most importantly, how I felt a newspaper should be in terms of content and design.