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A Delhi hospital has been ordered by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission to pay Rs 1.3 crore compensation to a couple for a botched-up in-vitro fertilisation procedure.

The Court has issued a notice to the Kerala government after a boy was killed by stray dogs there. India has the highest number of such attacks and calls for euthanising the strays have increased

In a progressive move, the Madras High Court said that temple priests cannot be appointed based on caste. Instead, knowledge and dedication to religious practices will be the criterion

The levying of service charge by hotels and restaurants has been a contentious issue. Instead of letting customers decide whether they want to pay it or not, the charges are being forced on them

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.