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Is the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita which mentions planned timelines for investigation and disposal the beginning of a new dawn? Will it lead to prompt and just compensation and punishment of errant police?

The World Health Organization says rabies is endemic in India, which accounts for 36% of the world’s rabies deaths. The organisation estimates that the number of deaths caused by dog bites is 18,000-20,000 every year. The latest instance is a case in Ghaziabad where a 14-year-old boy died after being bitten by a pet dog. What can be done to stop this menace?

In what could perhaps be seen as a skewed response to maternal upbraiding, courts in India have been okaying medical termination of pregnancies beyond the previous lakshman rekha of 20-24 weeks. Recently, a 27-week-old foetus was cleared for abortion. Court-sanctioned abortions in India have gone beyond the doors of matrimony

Gender-based presumptions have no place within the justice system. The Delhi High Court has confirmed this once again in the light of the recent judgment passed by it wherein it has set aside a trial court order and remanded the case, involving attempt to murder and kidnapping allegations, back to the trial court

The increasing number of student suicides in this coaching hub has led the Rajasthan CM to form a panel of stakeholders to solve this problem and to work on a law to regulate mushrooming coaching centres

Adapting to the US can take decades for emigres, especially with beliefs intimately tied to religious upbringing. Within many religions, there are written and unwritten philosophies about relationships between different strata of a given religion. Few are as explicit as the Hindu-based socio-political stratification among Indians

With “fatigue” among pilots becoming a major talking point, it is time for a Supreme Court suo motu action to look into their mental health as they are under immense pressure to perform their tasks

One of the priority tasks of the parliamentary panel looking into the three re-codification bills is to change the perspective of Macaulay’s codes, as most provisions retain IPC’s crime and punishment

The Muzaffarnagar slap-case made us finally aware that within the four walls of classroom, social abhorrence and religious bigotry is being played out and now, inevitably, it has become a political football as well

With the Supreme Court overturning a Madras High Court judgment, couples intending to marry despite family opposition can do so in the presence of advocates and without any public declaration of it