The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea of a section of Indian Airlines employees regarding unpaid wage arrears of Rs 208 crore. If disinvestment takes this route, will the prime State policy be in trouble?
The centre said that long vacations in courts lead to pendency. But do overworked judges burdened by the huge number of cases need to recharge their batteries or follow the Rule Book on holidays?
The sharp attacks of the government on the judiciary have seen the latter giving as good as it gets. What does this acrimony augur for litigants and constitutional institutions and offices?
As the judges’ appointment issue threatens to snowball into a major controversy, Sanjay Raman Sinha spoke to two former chief justices of India to gauge their views on the collegium and the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC).
A draft bill to bring in reforms in the EC has been introduced in Parliament and aims to stop it from being misused by the powers that be and bring in transparency in the appointment process.
It’s been almost 29 years since the National Human Rights Commission was formed. But it has a long, tough road ahead as is evident from the figures of rights abuses in India.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has gained the trust of people and needs to rise to challenges, said its second chairman Justice MN Venkatachaliah in an interview with Sanjay Raman Sinha.
As India celebrated National Human Rights Day on December 10, the spectre of human rights violations raised concerns. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson JUSTICE ARUN MISHRA spoke to SANJAY RAMAN SINHA in an exclusive interview and said he would never want the NHRC to have more powers as most of its recommendations are accepted
During a hearing, the lightning speed with which the present EC was appointed came under the scanner. Is a collegium model of appointment, like that for information commissioners, the answer?