Adarsh Kumar

Slamming a petitioner who refused to pay maintenance to his wife and daughter claiming he was on study leave, the Madras High Court said his duty to them cannot take a back seat

Recently, the Kerala High Court quashed the criminal proceedings initiated against a man who was arrested by the police for watching obscene videos on his mobile phone on the roadside. The Court made it clear that the individual had committed no offence as he was viewing the obscene video in his private time without exhibiting it to others. The case has, however, revived the debate about pornography and the laws that govern it

The World Health Organization says rabies is endemic in India, which accounts for 36% of the world’s rabies deaths. The organisation estimates that the number of deaths caused by dog bites is 18,000-20,000 every year. The latest instance is a case in Ghaziabad where a 14-year-old boy died after being bitten by a pet dog. What can be done to stop this menace?

Over the years, pressures of urban development have seen forests of Delhi Ridge under threat. In many areas, landscaped public parks and public housing have come up. The area also faces dumping of construction waste. Now the Delhi High Court has expressed concern over the presence of 63 structures inside the Central Ridge in the capital

The National Medical Commission recently put on hold its earlier notification, which made it mandatory for doctors to only prescribe generic drugs. After the rules were notified, the Indian Medical Association and the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance had expressed concern, saying this was not feasible because of the uncertainty about their quality

The Supreme Court has taken a big step to ban the use of objectionable words for women and launched a handbook that will guide judges in avoiding use of inappropriate gendered terms in court orders and legal documents. The Chief Justice of India said the handbook identifies common stereotypes about women, many of which have been utilised by courts in the past and demonstrates why they are inaccurate and how they may distort the application of the law

The Bill raises questions about the future autonomy of IIMs as it has proposed that the president will be the Visitor with the power to audit, order probes and appoint and remove directors

A transgender couple has pleaded before the Kerala High Court that their child’s birth certificate should refer to them as “parents” and not as “father” and “mother”. Will the Court oblige?

The face authentication feature in the app was recently launched by Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Basically, it means farmers registered under the PM-Kisan scheme can now complete e-KYC by scanning their face without a one-time password or fingerprint

The Delhi High Court recently made it clear that the permission of the tree officer in line with the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994, is mandatory before pruning trees in Delhi regardless of the tree’s girth size. The Court set aside guidelines that had allowed the pruning of branches of trees having a girth size of up to 15.7 cm without prior permission from the tree officer.