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Haryana’s land deals: Hooda’s Nemesis?

The former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s deals have divested thousands of poor farmers of their land, and these have now come to haunt him as law enforcing authorities close in on him By Vipin...

Stopped in Its Jumbo Tracks

All too often, environmental laws are breached with impunity. A National Green Tribunal ruling has put paid to Numaligarh Refinery’s encroachment into reserve forests in an elephant corridor in Assam ...

Safety of reporters: Death on the Beat

  Journalists who report from conflict zones and cover politics and corruption often pay with their lives, as underpinned in a recent report by an international media watchdog By Karan Kaus...

Singur: The Fight for Land

The landmark verdict on Singur by the Supreme Court will hit West Bengal’s economy and be cited in future agitations as industry and agriculture battle for this fast-depleting, precious resource By...

Lalu Yadav and the Shahabuddin game

There is much more to the recent controversy related to Siwan leader Mohammad Shahabuddin than meets the eye. He is merely a player in the political script written by Lalu Prasad to preserve his own l...

J&K Crisis: Beyond the Courts

A recent petition before the apex court seeking its direction to impose governor’s rule was not entertained. The three-judge bench observed that the Kashmir crisis should be resolved politically and n...

High Court of Jharkhand rescues a poor student

A poor, differently-abled girl who cracks NEET finds a savior in the court so that she can become a doctor By Prabhat Singh in Ranchi The judiciary has often provided succor to the poor and the ...

Good Samaritan: Please save the savior

Bystanders who rush to help accident victims are often harassed by the police and hospitals. A new set of guidelines announced following a Supreme court order hopes to correct this.    By Nayantara...

Karnataka to release 12K cusecs of water: SC

The apex court hears Cauvery issue on a holiday, modifies its earlier order  In an important development on the Cauvery water dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday modified its earlier order and ask...

Judge Bats for Media Freedom

Even as conspiracy theories swirled regarding this sensational case, a judge upheld the rights of the media and stood up for democratic norms       By R Ramasubramanian in Chennai IN a rare judg...

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