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A recent bill placed before Parliament seeks to replace the Chief Justice of India from the panel that selects the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners with a cabinet minister. This destroys the balance needed for impartiality

While fighting sexual assault allegations, the former WFI president declared that hugging or touching without sexual intent doesn’t amount to an offence. But various judgments have proved him wrong

After the mayhem in Nuh where buildings of Muslims were bulldozed, the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the state if it was conducting ethnic cleansing by not following the procedure established by law

Even as Assam gears up to introduce the law, the question is whether states should spend valuable time and resources passing such laws when a UCC will make them irrelevant

The Bill raises questions about the future autonomy of IIMs as it has proposed that the president will be the Visitor with the power to audit, order probes and appoint and remove directors

An oversight subcommittee in the US Congress confirmed that the federal government has spent nearly 75 years hiding evidence that extraterrestrials have visited Earth. Star witness at the hearing was David Grusch, a former intelligence official, who said credible people told him that “non-human biologics” were found at alleged crash sites

A recent incident of a case being registered against a microphone for howling during a speech by the Kerala CM has brought out the ludicrousness of seeing inanimate objects as living entities

A recent award of Rs 2 crore by the Delhi High Court to a defamed army officer has sparked a debate about the defamation law impinging on the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression

Orders of the Patna High Court relating to a caste survey of the Bihar government have led to confusion as it first stayed the survey, and then supported it, debunking the stand of the petitioners

Jharkhand has become the latest state to introduce an anti-cheating bill to curb the menace in competitive exams. Critics question the harsh punishment awaiting the candidate