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The Cadre of Choice

On October 22, the Supreme Court set aside a Kerala High Court order, which had asked the centre to grant Kerala cadre to IAS officer A Shainamol who had been allotted the Himachal Pradesh cadre. Sha...

The WhatsApp Imbroglio

Defending the validity of the traceability clause embodied under Rule 4(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the centre recently infor...

The Jurisdiction Jam

The West Bengal government had filed an original suit before the Supreme Court raising the issue of continuous registration of FIRs by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the state despite t...

RTI’s Red Tape Noose

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...

Hybrid Justice

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...

Father figure: The Majority View

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...

Pregnant Pause

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 Information Byway

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...

This is the Pits

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 ...

Restraining Orders

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...

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