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A public interest litigation filed in the Delhi High Court has brought into focus the status of the Fund and whether it should be made accountable to public scrutiny. The centre’s legal stand leaves many questions unanswered.

In order to reduce the risk to prisoners and ensure that they have minimum interaction with outsiders while being transported to courts, the Delhi Prisons authority has proposed video conferencing.

On Friday, February 3, both houses of Parliament were adjourned till February 6, amid disruptions over the Opposition’s demand for debate on public sector investments in “companies losing market valu...

Hindenburg Research asked 88 questions to Adani. Here are a few of the choicest ones, none satisfactorily answered in the 413-page Adani response

One of India’s most popular tiger reserves, Jim Corbett National Park, in Uttarakhand is the focus of a Supreme Court decree which has blamed the state’s former forest minister for multiple irregularities.

The proposed amendment in the Bill can deny the right to access public information if the government thinks that it impinges on the private realm of a person and is not of larger public interest.

Recently, a ruling by a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court made the process of passive euthanasia less difficult and less time-consuming. What is the legal history of this matter and the issues involved?

The Calcutta High Court slammed a husband for initiating divorce proceedings due to his wife’s infertility and asked him to be a pillar of support for her. Courts have often taken an empathetic view in such matters.

Protests have erupted across Kerala after the state government made public a satellite survey report on areas that are to fall within the proposed buffer zone around 22 wildlife sanctuaries and parks in line with the Supreme Court directions. The protests are against what they say is the government’s “hasty” satellite survey of forest areas.

In various judgments, the Court has reiterated that bail is the rule and jail is the exception. The accused must have his freedom in order to establish his innocence, it said.