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The compact judgment balances the concerns of unity and integrity of the nation with the requirements of procedural and substantive aspects of natural justice and holds that all administrative action is judicially reviewable.

Abysmally low wages for prisoners has put a question mark on prison reforms. Recommendations of the All India Jail Reforms Committee have only partially been implemented by states.

The recent release of the Report outlines the major areas in which India falls behind in terms of justice delivery, analysing it from the perspectives of the police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.

While social media has had a positive impact on the legal system and made dissemination of information to clients easier, issues of confidentiality and privacy too have to be tackled

The Supreme Court had directed that all convicts and undertrials, released during the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest jails, should surrender within a fortnight. The top court also dismissed an application filed by a convict for considering the parole granted during the pandemic as part of his actual sentence since it was involuntary

As the population of the majestic animals increases in Gir forests in Gujarat, there is a plan to relocate some to Kuno in Madhya Pradesh. Will the relocation be as successful as those of cheetahs from Africa?

The report of the statutory body’s chairperson to the Department of Health and Family Welfare recommends that rape victims should be given priority and attended to by gynaecologists without delay. The recommendations also aim at curbing delays in conducting medical examination of sexual assault victims at government hospitals.

China renaming 11 places in Arunachal is part of its illegal annexation of Tibet. It has been waging a war of multiple dimensions over the state and India has to be vigilant about is pesky neighbour.

Indian workers on H1B visas caught a modest bit of help recently from a federal district court in Washington DC.

Instructions by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to Karnataka Milk Federation to label curd as “Dahi” are being seen as an attempt to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states.