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The amendment makes CAs, company secretaries and cost and works accountants liable if they do financial transactions, buy and sell immovable property and operate companies for dubious clients.

How can a prisoner be brutally stabbed within a high security ward despite the presence of security personnel? Indian jails, which are already overburdened, are yet again facing new allegations in the light of the gruesome murder of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Tihar jail by members of a rival gang.

Ruling on the power war between the elected governments of Delhi and Maharashtra versus their centrally-appointed governors, the Supreme Court has sought to bind and shackle the Delhi Durbar’s autocrats with the chains of the Constitution.

Artificial Intelligence has already invaded Indian farming. Huge advances have been seen with the help of AI-related tech. However, there remains the possibility of over automating the system, resulting in the loss of livelihoods of millions of farmers.

As Karnataka cattle traders cry foul over anti-slaughter act, the spin-offs of cattle protection laws on commerce become hard to ignore. As the subject of agriculture and animal husbandry comes under the state list, there is no omnibus law in the country which deals with cattle protection and slaughter norms. Instead, states have the power to enact individual cattle laws.

The Ludhiana gas leak shows the need for safety systems. Under the Supreme Court’s idea of absolute liability, hazardous industries must pay compensation regardless of whether a disaster was caused by its fault.

A simple, enabling legal provision is needed to prevent mummification of the living and to guarantee the right to a dignified life, including death.

In order to reduce case pendency, the chief justice has directed that 14 vacation benches sit during the summer vacations. For an already overburdened judiciary, does this take the joy out of holidays?

Nearly three decades ago, a gossip columnist named E Jean Carroll was sexually assaulted in an upscale New York department store dressing room by a playboy real estate tycoon. Recently, nine jurors in a federal court civil case in Manhattan unanimously agreed that Donald Trump, the ex-president was a sexual predator. Carroll was awarded a total of $5 million dollars in her assault and defamation case against Trump, who is running again in 2024 to be president of the US. This verdict finally may have consequences for someone who has escaped legal accountability

After Rajasthan, Delhi is taking steps to protect lawyers from heinous crimes. Atrocities against them have risen, instilling fear and violating their right to life and to practice any profession with freedom.