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Calcutta HC: Advocate’s submission

Above: Calcutta High Court; (inset) Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Calcutta High Court stays proceedings in a suit after a trial court refuses to entertain an advocate’s communication of its order...

Cauvery Dispute: Water On The Boil

Above: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi The centre, through the Cauvery Water Management Authority, wants to convey that water is a national as...

Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, 2018: Tough New Measures

 (Left) Vijay Mallya, leaves after an extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London; (inset)The Kingfisher Villa in Goa. Photo: UNI The tough provisions in the new law are...

Data Privacy: Footprints on the Web

Above: (Clockwise from top left) Ujwala Uppaluri, Apar Gupta, Vrinda Bhandari, Prasanna S, Raman Jit Singh Chima, Gautam Bhatia and Kritika Bhardwaj have tried to develop their own privacy bill, based...

Raining gifts and freebies in poll-bound Chhattisgarh

Above: Rural women with mobile phones/Photo courtesy: indianfolk.com The Chhattisgarh government’s poll-eve decision to distribute 50 lakh smartphones to all BPL card holders has raised questions a...

Rape Case: A Compromised Police?

Above: The petitioner has filed a separate case in the Delhi High Court seeking registration of an FIR against his daughter-in-law In a scathing indictment of the police, a senior citizen accused o...

WhatsApp Hartal Call: A Dangerous Hoax

Above: A protest against the hartal in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI The Kerala High Court has cracked down on those who forwarded messages which spawned hartals  in north Kerala districts and led ...

Labour Laws in IT Companies: Sacked at Gunpoint!

Above: HITEC IT Park in Hyderabad The swanky campuses of IT firms hide the harsh reality of pink slips and bouncers who get unwilling employees to resign. They have now formed a forum and gone to c...

Victimization by Transgenders: Gender is a matter of personal choice, rules Kerala HC

Above: Transgenders at the Queer Cultural Fest in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI The Kerala HC, accused of judicial overreach for ordering a medical exam on a transgender, rejects a mother’s petitio...

Husband’s Salary: Paying for the Slip

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence In an interesting development, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that a wife has the right to know her husband’s salary, thereby upholding a CIC rulin...

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