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The face authentication feature in the app was recently launched by Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Basically, it means farmers registered under the PM-Kisan scheme can now complete e-KYC by scanning their face without a one-time password or fingerprint

In a sign of progressive times, High Courts have often said that controlling a woman’s sexuality hits her autonomy and dignity and claims of her being detained by another man will not be entertained

The state’s repeal of a law regulating forcible religious conversion is part of the ongoing political one-upmanship there. The right to freedom of religion does not grant the right to forcibly convert anyone

The Delhi High Court recently made it clear that the permission of the tree officer in line with the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994, is mandatory before pruning trees in Delhi regardless of the tree’s girth size. The Court set aside guidelines that had allowed the pruning of branches of trees having a girth size of up to 15.7 cm without prior permission from the tree officer.

A shocking case of organ trafficking in a prominent Ernakulam hospital has once again brought into focus the flouting of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act. Such cases abound in India.

NRIs are increasingly caught in an unseemly custody battle for their children. Recently, the apex court sentenced an NRI to six months jail and a fine of Rs 25 lakh for defying its order.

A landmark judgment of the Kerala High Court has said that a woman’s naked body cannot be termed as obscene or sexually explicit and what may be morally wrong is not necessarily legally wrong.

The problems of the edtech giant are increasing. After coming under the target of law enforcement agencies in India, the company has got into legal trouble in America. This comes at a time when it is facing an unprecedented debt crisis.

The Delhi High Court recently set aside the order of the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, which had refused to grant relaxation of attendance to a student on the ground of maternity leave. It could set a badly needed precedent.

Sagarika Chakraborty and her husband, an Indian couple living in Norway, had their children taken away by the Norwegian Child Welfare Services under the pretext of bad parenting. Now the apex court has sentenced a non-resident Indian to six months in jail along with a fine for defying its orders to bring back his minor son to India