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An order of the Bombay High Court’s Kolhapur bench, granting anticipatory bail to a 26-year-old farmer accused of forcibly marrying and raping his 14-year-old niece, spawns questions galore. The utter confusion in the litigants’ submissions and the Court’s reaction scripts an interesting case study

As Donald Trump’s America turns unpredictable, Russia and China offer tactical overtures and Europe grapples with internal divides, India faces a shifting global chessboard. In this multipolar order, New Delhi’s challenge is to stay agile, diversify partnerships, and reinforce its role as a confident, adaptive power

The vote chori rhetoric and the Adani-Ambani pitch raked up by Rahul Gandhi during the Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar seems to have found resonance with the electorate in the state and rattled the BJP, perhaps leading PM Modi to seize on the alleged attack on his mother during the march

A two-judge bench has flagged a constitutional conflict between a child’s right to free and compulsory education and minority  institutions’ right to autonomy, setting the stage for a landmark review

The extraordinary saga of whistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi and a string of judicial recusals exposes a widening faultline in India’s legal system—where silence over reasons for stepping aside raises more questions than answers

By Inderjit Badhwar The phrase “justice delayed is justice denied” is not a cliché—it is a moral truth. This issue’s cover story by Binny Yadav is both a chronicle of legal inertia and an urgent c...

Five years after the February 2020 Delhi “riots”, the continued incarceration of activists like Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and Gulfisha Fatima without trial highlights a grave erosion of liberty. The Delhi High Court’s denial of bail under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act exposes how pre-trial punishment has become the new normal in India’s justice system

Even environmental activism must respect the limits of judicial authority, says the top court in a landmark ruling

Australia’s High Commissioner to India Philip Green speaks on the student visa controversy, the promise of branch campuses, and why India-Australia relations must look beyond cricket. Stricter visa rules, growing migration pressures, and Australian universities setting up in India have unsettled many Indian aspirants. Green, however, avers doors remain open for genuine students, even as he reflects on India’s rise, shared ties, and the taste of jalebi and chai.

The Donald Trump administration has found its own version of Josef Mengele—not in Auschwitz, but in Washington, DC. At the helm of the nation’s health system stands Robert F Kennedy Jr, a man whose rejection of vaccines and science has transformed the US Department of Health and Human Services into a dangerous stage for conspiracy and quackery