Tuesday, March 4, 2025
154,225FansLike
654,155FollowersFollow
0SubscribersSubscribe

CATEGORY

Cover Story

New Tax Reforms: Taxpayers’ Chimera?

The reforms are meant to benefit sincere taxpayers, ensure their fair and polite treatment, and ease their compliance burden. Yet, tax harassment and trial notices are the order of the day, leading to distrust

Examining Exams

The University Grants Commission has directed that final exams should be held, with Covid-19 precautions observed and in a possible hybrid form. Proceedings in the Supreme Court on the issue are examining the likely options which affect the future of all students

Succour in Sight

In the wake of Covid-19, all courts have remained shut for nearly five months and have been holding hearings through video conferencing. Although lockdown restrictions were eased from June onwards, courts have continued to hold only virtual hearings.

Pharma Industry: Testing Times

As more and more drug trials take place in the time of Covid-19, the industry needs to be more open and put most of the data in the public domain to remove opacity, retain trust and to serve as a useful database

Shocking Shootouts

The killing of gangster Rakesh Pandey once again turns the spotlight on the police taking the law into its own hands during encounters, ignoring the guidelines laid down by the apex court for investigating such cases.

Batting For the Victims

Even as the centre requested the apex court to let it withdraw the case against the marines following a UN tribunal decision, the bench rejected it saying it won’t pass any order without hearing the victims’ kin

The Centre and SC’s Narrow Path to 4G in J&K

Beginning this Independence Day, the country should see a slow deregulation of high-speed internet services across the Union Territory of J&K. This is what the centre told the Supreme Court during a contempt hearing in this case.

Ignorance is Not Bliss

IN a surprising development, DG (Prisons) Sandeep Goel had to tender an unconditional apology for an inappropriate explanation submitted by the Superintendent, Central Jail I, Tis Hazari, for keeping a person in unlawful detention even after the Court had granted him bail in all his cases.

“E-Darshan is No Darshan”

The Supreme Court has batted for the opening up of places of worship as long as a limited number of devotees are permitted in and adequate safety measures and social distancing guidelines are adhered...

New Education Policy: Scoring A Hit?

The policy aims at large-scale changes in the sector and an increased allocation of 6 percent of the GDP. Will this be enough to reduce the disparity among various groups and lead students into the 21st century?

News Update