Above: Post-floods, Kerala needs funds for rehabilitation and rebuilding infrastructure/Photo: UNI
Is Kerala’s demand that it be allowed to impose a cess on GST in order to mobilise resources in th...
Above: Granthis with the Shri Guru Granth Sahib in the inner sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple in Amritsar
The move to make acts of sacrilege involving all religious texts punishable is an ind...
Above: The Punjab assembly passed the IPC (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018
By enacting a new law against blasphemy, the legislative assembly of Punjab has put the clock back on the march of civilisat...
By Puneet Nicholas Yadav
Stating there are hindrances to any endeavours to institute a uniform civil code, Law Commission favours reforms within existing personal and marriage laws
On the last d...
Above: The American fantasy drama TV series apparently owes its popularity to digital piracy
In an age when digitisation of the world has radically changed the consumption of copyright, it is evide...
Above: The Amrapali Group’s ugly, half-built buildings are a sharp reminder of the way homebuyers have been duped/Photo: Anil Shakya
In a relief for homebuyers, the Supreme Court has slammed variou...
Above: Photo courtesy www.australianmining.com.au
~By Sujit Bhar
Indigenous people, across the world have suffered at the hands of “development” that has taken away their traditional livelihood...
Above: The compound of the Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa, Haryana
Investigating agencies are probing benami deals of Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the convicted former head of the sect, who acquired properties in...
New government proposals to regulate this industry seem mindless, designed to kill the goose that lays the golden egg and will allow entrenched interests such as traders to benefit
~By Sanjiv Bhat...
Above: The General House of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
For the first time, an association has questioned provisions in the Sikh Gurdwara Act for giving control of gurdwaras to the ...