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Missionaries of Charity: Mother of a Controversy

- July 22, 2018

Above: Police try to enter the premises of a Ranchi shelter run by Missionaries of Charity following an FIR lodged against child trafficking by nuns/Photo: UNI Three years after it announced that i...

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Legal Information: Access Denied

- July 15, 2018

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence IT companies have made India the back office of the world, but the country remains a laggard in building live legal e-databanks ~By Rishika Pardikar A ...

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Section 377: Somewhere Over the Rainbow…

- July 14, 2018

Photo: Anil Shakya When the Supreme Court Constitution bench took up petitions challenging Section 377, it lived up to its role as a progressive institution and in sync with the realities of modern...

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Online Abuse: Tackling Vengeful Trolls

- July 8, 2018

Above: Union minister Sushma Swaraj was trolled for taking measures to ensure that interfaith couples get their passports/Photo: UNI As social media platforms fail to self-regulate, high-profile vi...

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10-yr jail term for Ex Pak PM Nawaz Sharif in case linked to Panama Papers

- July 6, 2018

Pakistan’s Accountability court announces 10 year jail term for Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam granted 7 year term, her husband to serve 1 year in prison Just short of a year after Pakistan’s Suprem...

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Adventure Sports in Uttarakhand: Danger Zone

- July 1, 2018

Above: For now, there will be no more river rafting in Rishikesh or elsewhere in Uttarakhand/Photo Courtesy: tajhotels.com Peak season adventure tourism takes a hit in Uttarakhand as the High Court...

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Law Commission: The Quiet Reformer

- July 1, 2018

Above: Civil court lawyers protesting against the Advocates (Amendment) Bill 2017, in Ranchi (file pic)/Photo: UNI Though the Law Commission’s voluminous reports are not binding on the government, ...

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Property Issues: The Promised Land

- June 24, 2018

Above: Buying lands belonging to the Limboo-Tamang tribals is proposed to be barred in Sikkim/Photo: mapsofindia.com In an ostensible attempt to safeguard scarce land resources, the chief minister ...

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Sleaze behind the Glitter

- June 23, 2018

Illustration: Rajender Kumar The recent revelation of a prostitution racket in the US has blown the lid off the Telugu film industry where actresses who have fallen on bad times are exploited and b...

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Legalising Marijuana: An Intoxicating Affair

- June 17, 2018

Above: Ancient and medieval Indian texts have extolled the virtues of the Cannabis indica and sativa plants Over the past four years, support for de-criminalising cannabis has come from various law...

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Supreme Court reserves judgment on Sanjiv Bhatt plea seeking suspension of sentence in custodial death case

Supreme Court reprimands Karnataka High Court for closing land acquisition matter on same day without much thought

Supreme Court pulls up Chhattisgarh Police for taking hasty action against accused to defeat its previous orders

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Supreme Court reserves judgment on Sanjiv Bhatt plea seeking suspension of sentence in custodial death case

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