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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 spectre of demonetisation still exists, for many companies and organisations that had justly and legally deposited their hard earned cash incomes during the government-provided window. The Delhi High Court has recently cut to size a marauding government agency

The provisions are expected to be notified anytime now. However, instead of protecting the common man, they might end up shielding corrupt government officials and might even nullify the great good that the RTI Act has achieved so far

The apex court recently delivered a pointed rebuke to a petitioner for filing an unsubstantiated claim in a politically sensitive incident that could have had far-reaching consequences

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

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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

As global economies struggle with recession fears and protectionist policies, India faces a two-fold crisis—an overstated manufacturing boom and a middle class sinking under the weight of unchecked debt 

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