After the ropeway accident in Jharkhand’s Trikut Hills which left three people dead and led to a terrifying ordeal for almost 60 tourists in the swaying cars which collided due to a technical snag, t...
Is the Indian legal system structured in a way that it marginalises a sizeable section of the population and favours the rich? A High Court chief justice sparks a debate.
It is been a long simmering dispute that is once again creating a political slugfest. The latest development was when the new Chief Minister of Punjab and Leader of the state assembly, Bhagwant Mann,...
As Covid rise slowly in the Capital, the Delhi’s Directorate of Education (DoE) on April 14 issued an advisory asking schools to temporarily shut down a section or the whole premises if a student or ...
The recent Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, which was passed by both Houses of Parliament, has created a furore. The Bill seeks to replace the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. Th...
NCP leader Supriya Sule recently introduced a private member’s Bill that seeks to give equal rights of marriage to the LGBTQIA+ community. The Bill also seeks to replace all references in the Special Marriage Act to “husband and wife” with the word “spouse”. What are the chances of it becoming a law?
A judgment by the Karnataka High Court has held a man guilty of raping his wife and said marriage is not a license for such acts. India is one of the few countries that have still not criminalised marital rape.
The Kerala High Court recently forbid government employees in the state from participating in the two-day nationwide on-going strike on March 28 and 29 and asked the state government to declare dies-...
The government on March 28 apprised the Supreme Court that the followers of Hinduism, Judaism and Bahai, who are minorities in certain states, can be declared as such by the concerned state governmen...
A bunch of petitions had been filed by entities who had approached the Delhi High Court after social media platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, amongst others, had suspended their social media handles without any prior intimation.