Above: US President Donald Trump. Photo: UNI
President Donald Trump is likely to decertify the Iran nuclear deal next week in a speech that is expected to be hard and caustic. This will trigger a ...
As if the Gorakhpur tragedy of 60-odd children dying due to lack of oxygen was not enough, it has come to light now that at least three people had died since April at the Sir Sundar Lal Hospital of BH...
Recognising recent tensions arising out of nuclear arms and testing—North Korea and the US are a case in point—the Norwegian Nobel Committee has conferred the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on the Internation...
There has been too much talk about the opacity of the Supreme Court Collegium and the recent transfer and resignation of Justice Jayant Patel of the Karnataka High Court—transferred to the Allahabad H...
The Supreme Court on Friday (October 6) admitted a PIL by Rishi Malhotra, asking for the death by hanging sentence to be changed to more scientific and less painful methods while giving capital punish...
Above: Mahatma Gandhi. Photo: www.biography.com
PIL claims that an organization was involved in the killing of the Mahatma
A petition to reopen and reinvestigate the assassination of Mahatma Gan...
Former AIADMK head-honcho and the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s confidante VK Sasikala was on Friday (October 6) granted a five-day parole to visit her ailing husband M Natarajan, wh...
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking the use of VVPAT with EVMs in the by-elections in Gurdaspur in Punjab and Vengara in Kerala. The appellant wanted a paper trail of all votes cast.
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A PIL has been filed with the Supreme Court by Ashwani Upadhyay, a lawyer at the apex court, asking for a ban on candidates contesting election from two seats simultaneously.
The petitioner says th...
Above: A protest at Jantar Mantar. Photo: Anil Shakya
The iconic Jantar Mantar area of New Delhi will henceforth only be a tourist attraction and not a traditional centre for protests. The National...