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The Allure of Private Practice

The outgoing attorney general’s request to the government not to grant him another term brings the focus back on law officers’ other lucrative cases  ~By VenkatasubramanianWhen Mukul Rohatgi becam...

PSU Litigation: Tied Up in Knots

Pending litigation between various government departments has shot up to over a lakh cases and there seems little hope of succour, leading to a huge backlog and loss to the exchequer ~By Parsa Venkat...

SC says newspaper companies must pay minimum wages

The Supreme Court on Monday (June 19) ordered that no contractual employee of any newspaper organization can be denied the benefits of the Majithia Wage Board, and thus reiterated the verdict of Febru...

BJP names rank outsider Kovind as its Presidential candidate

The NDA has selected a rank outsider, so to say, to be its Presidential candidate. BJP president Amit Shah named Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind—a Dalit leader, a BJP supporter from Kanpur and a lawyer...

India re-nominates sitting ICJ judge Bhandari

In the run-up to the hearing of the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, India has decided to keep its faith in Judge Dalveer Bhandari, known to be somewhat of a ...

CIC asks PMO, ministries to bring BCCI under RTI in a month’s time

Indian cricket, barely recovering from Sunday’s (June 18) shameful and shocking defeat to arch rivals Pakistan in the final of the Champions Trophy 2017, was in for more setbacks when the Central Info...

States move SC against NGT order on PCBs

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had, in an earlier order, banned the chairmen of 10 State Pollution Control Boards (SPCB) on the grounds that the chairmen were not appointed as per the guidelines la...

Amazon picks up real grocery chain for $13.7 bn; Indian companies now have a template

In what can be an excellent milestone to follow for struggling Indian e-retailers such as Flipkart, the biggest of them all, Amazon, seems to have shown the way to a real life balance. Amazon, the ...

Kochi Metro heralds new era in Indian public transport

Amid much hype and hoopla, Kerala on Saturday got its first metro train service with the inauguration of the Kochi Metro by PM Narendra Modi. Kochi became only the eighth city in India to have a metro...

Kerala High Court orders detention of Panama ship

The Kerala High Court has passed a directive for detention of the Panama cargo ship ‘Amber L’ which collided with an Indian fishing boat, ‘Carmel Matha’ off the Kochi shore leaving two fishermen dead ...

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