Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence
~By Aabad Ponda
The legislature seems to have omitted to incorporate offences of criminal misappropriation, punishable under section 403 and 404 of the I...
While the government may consider such aid by advocates in order to elevate them as judges, its implementation is tough
~By Justice Narendra Chapalgaonkar
The legal profession is one of the most...
Above: Women protesting against the dilution of Section 498A in Delhi; (inset) Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. Photo: K.M Vasudevan/lawyerscollective.org
Decades of activism were undone when th...
Above: Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s son has been arrested for terror funding. Photo: UNI
Barely a day after the government appointed an interlocutor in Kashmir, the National Investiga...
Above: (Left) Farooq Abdullah and Dineshwar Sharma
In an interesting shift from its hard-line stance on Kashmir, the BJP has now decided to resolve the Kashmir ongoing imbroglio through dialogue...
Above: A smoke emanating from a factory. Photo: Anil Shakya
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta on Tuesday (October 24) inposed a cost of Rs 2 lakh on the environmen...
Rahul’s Rising Graph
His elevation as president of the Congress in a few days could not have had a better prelude. In the past six weeks, his image and strategy have undergone a remarkable change. Pa...
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a plea to modify its order that made the playing of the national anthem in cinema halls mandatory, even as the Centre opposed the move.
The apex court...
Above: Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje
The Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan on Monday tabled the controversial Bill for passage in the state Assembly. The move not only...
Above: Narendra Patel (in white shirt)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third home visit to Gujarat in a month was to announce a slew of pre-poll sops, with the Election Commission giving the BJP ti...