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As the current Chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, India will hold a meeting of Heads of State Council in July 2023. It must work at mentoring other SCO nations in their transformation too. 

The brazen murder of Atiq Ahmed and his brother, captured live on television cameras, has once again focused on the ferocity and frequency of police encounter deaths in Uttar Pradesh. That the murder took place during a press interview conducted by the police only adds to the questions surrounding the motivation of the state and its police force.

The Central Consumer Protection Authority established under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, has issued guidelines to prevent unfair trade practices and protect consumer interest with regard to levy of service charge in hotels and restaurants. Now, the courts are examining the confusion over the issue.

After Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote to Amit Shah expressing his displeasure over qualifying tests for CRPF constables being held only in English and Hindi, a decision was taken to have them in 13 languages for CAPF exams from next year.

The Delhi police commissioner has ordered his personnel to use simple words in FIRs instead of difficult Urdu or Persian ones which few understand.

A case of a man being chargesheeted for killing a rat has raised eyebrows. But researchers have found that animal abusers are often exposed to abuse themselves and likely to take it out on society later.

Controversy swirls around US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas regarding ethical issues from not reporting decades of substantial gifts from an activist, moneyed Republican donor. His response in this case, exposed by ProPublica, a non-profit journalism organization, resulted in a rare public statement that essentially confirmed the report. It brings into focus the rules of ethics followed by federal judges at all levels.

The Bill is expected to herald the Indian competition framework into a new era that can efficiently regulate new-age markets. The role of different stakeholders must also be kept in mind. 

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.