By Vikram Kilpady
A circular of the Telangana chief secretary, dated October 13, 2021, mandated every special chief secretary, principal secretary and secretaries to alert the public information o...
Ever since the first lockdown in March 2020, physical functioning of courts in India had been put on hold, with hearings being conducted using video telecommunication platforms. Even though the court...
The Delhi High Court recently ruled that a father cannot be absolved of the responsibilities to meet the education expenses of his children simply because they have attained the age of majority. A si...
In the 50th year of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, abortion in India is legal in certain circumstances and illegal in certain circumstances. Section 312 (“voluntarily causing a woman to mi...
The central government has started a fresh round of discussions for a completely new IT law to deal with current and future situations. According to officials, the new law will “subsume” rules like t...
The Orissa High Court recently ordered the state government to pay Rs 10 lakh each to the parents of two 4-year-old girls playing at an anganwadi centre who drowned in a pit on September 7, 2012. It ...
Recently, the Delhi High Court directed that “all media houses ought to exercise restraint while reporting on matters which are still under investigation by any statutory authority”.
Justice Rekha...
In an attempt to control dust emissions from construction sites and thereby combat pollution, Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai held a joint meeting with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPC...
Recently, the Delhi High Court was approached by Saurav Suman, a 17 year- and-nine month-old Class XII student. He was aggrieved by an order passed by the appropriate authority of the Institute of Li...
Last fortnight, while extending the custody of a Chennai couple held in connection with the Rs 21,000-crore heroin haul from Mundra port, the Special Court for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substan...