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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence
In far-reaching judgments, courts have approved live-in relationships among adults even if the boy is not of marriageable age
~By Venkatasubramanian
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Above: Delhi High Court said the petitioners’ right to make representation against their arrest was denied
The Delhi High Court has set free two persons held under COFEPOSA on the ground that the ...
While adjudicating the Amity Law School case, where students were debarred from sitting for exams, the Delhi High Court brought up some critical issues over BCI’s powers on the issue
~By Rajesh Kum...
In a progressive judgment, the Madras High Court has ruled that it’s not mandatory to fill the father’s name in a birth certificate. But experts say this would be difficult to implement for all record...