The apex court’s endorsement of privacy in a dispute over CCTV surveillance in a Kolkata ancestral home opens up larger questions about personal liberty, domestic oversight, and the evolving tensions within India’s joint family system
The Calcutta High Court has pulled up a political leader attached to the Trinamool Congress for interfering in the work of a Kolkata film director on behalf of a technicians’ union. The state’s film world is today virtually controlled by the party, which has found another cash cow in a revenue-starved state with no industry
The Supreme Court has upheld the Calcutta High Court’s verdict terminating the services of nearly 26,000 school teachers. While it is a fact that most of them used unfair means to get their jobs, there still were honest applicants in the mix who now have become collateral damage