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While fighting sexual assault allegations, the former WFI president declared that hugging or touching without sexual intent doesn’t amount to an offence. But various judgments have proved him wrong

After the mayhem in Nuh where buildings of Muslims were bulldozed, the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the state if it was conducting ethnic cleansing by not following the procedure established by law

At first glance, the Bills have simply juggled British-era provisions and changed the nomenclature. But will the flaws in the system be addressed and procedures improved for quick punishment of the accused?

Even as courts accept documents via WhatsApp, legal professionals and technology providers should establish guidelines to safeguard the integrity of court proceedings

Even as Assam gears up to introduce the law, the question is whether states should spend valuable time and resources passing such laws when a UCC will make them irrelevant

The Bill raises questions about the future autonomy of IIMs as it has proposed that the president will be the Visitor with the power to audit, order probes and appoint and remove directors

While various judgments have said that a police officer has to register a Zero FIR if a cognizable offence is not committed within the jurisdiction of his police station, Manipur has shown that this doesn’t happen

The deaths of nine cheetahs, translocated from Africa, in 130 days in Kuno National Park, MP, have brought Project Cheetah under the scanner. Will better sense prevail so that they are taken to other sanctuaries?

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has put a stop to rampant bulldozing of private property by the Haryana government which declared that these were properties owned by criminal elements. The demolitions were done without court orders

An oversight subcommittee in the US Congress confirmed that the federal government has spent nearly 75 years hiding evidence that extraterrestrials have visited Earth. Star witness at the hearing was David Grusch, a former intelligence official, who said credible people told him that “non-human biologics” were found at alleged crash sites