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A look at how Epstein files dogged Pam Bondi's time as attorney generalPam Bondi's time as US attorney general saw significant controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files. Victims and others sought transp...
275 former judges, officials slam US international religious freedom reportA coalition of 275 eminent Indian personalities, featuring ex-judges and military officers, has emphatically condemned a recent finding by ...
SC bans NCERT class 8 book over chapter on corruption in judiciary, says gunshot fired to bleed institutionThe Supreme Court has banned the NCERT Class 8 social science book. The book contained content deemed offensive regarding corruption in the...
Brighten your day with this Plato classic: 'The Apology' - The book is not an actual apology, but a defence against...Plato, a student of great philosopher Socrates, founded the Academy in Athens and wrote philosophical dialogues. His work 'The Apology' det...
Indian man in Sweden sparks soul-searching debate on why NRIs do not return: Are the ‘anchors at home’ too weak?An Indian man in Sweden ignited a debate with his honest explanation of why many Indians don't return home after moving abroad. He cited be...
God does not forget, they will suffer: MP HC Justice Ramana’s farewell blasts judiciary’s cold shoulder in scathing speechJustice Duppala Venkata Ramana of the Madhya Pradesh High Court used his farewell speech to express his disappointment with the Supreme Cou...
Marjorie Taylor Greene fires fresh salvo, says people in Donald Trump's inner circle are lying to himMarjorie Taylor Greene is sounding the alarm, claiming insiders in Donald Trump's inner circle are misleading him—and it's putting his conn...
New Income-Tax Bill: Simplified, modernised framework to foster trust & support economic growthThe new Income-Tax Bill, built on the 1961 Act's strong foundation, simplifies and modernizes taxation by eliminating redundancies and cons...
Extraterritorial application of US laws: Former foreign secy Kanwal Sibal suggests Adani case be transferred to IndiaFormer foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal criticized the US for alleging bribery charges against the Adani Group, calling it an overreach of US...
Could Modi 3.0 be strikingly different from Modi 2.0? Swaminathan Aiyar explainsSwaminathan Aiyar says in the case of Modi 3.0, the emphasis is on more of the same. "The thing is not to be different." The aim of the exe...
Electoral bonds: Citizens don't have right to know source of funding, govt tells SCAhead of the October 31 hearing before a five-judge bench led by Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud, Venkataramani argued that the electoral b...
God save lower courts: Madras High Court slams lower courts for relief granted to Tamil Nadu netasJustice N Anand Venkatesh of the Madras High Court has criticized the subordinate courts for the recent acquittal of two Tamil Nadu politic...
View: Why Justice Chanda’s recusal in Mamata case sets a terrible precedentBanerjee had requested reassignment of the bench claiming “a legitimate apprehension of bias”, citing the judge’s alleged ties to BJP.
View: India's economy is in crisis after reduced GDP estimateIf India’s growing so fast, why do most other indicators suggest the economy is stagnating or slowing?
Is India ready for the future: A talk by Raghuram RajanWith the rise of NPAs, Rajan advised to “clean up” the system, and claimed the “bankruptcy code has to be one element of the larger cleanup...
View: By grafting welfare measures on rickety Raj structures, our leaders guarantee failureRight from the beginning, policy and decision makers of independent India have ignored a fundamental reality: that the welfare state is, fi...
Objection Milord: Four SC judges publicly critique CJIJudge Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, had died in 2014. A PIL on the matter is currently being heard in t...
View: Simple, yet complex tax regime seeks to integrate business transactionsGST seeks to bring the entire body of business transactions into a single integrated digital platform with full transparency.
Instead of aborting NJAC, Supreme Court should have given it a fair chance to succeedFor all the former adjectives, the nation owes the judicial authors our deepest gratitude. For the latter result, a legal critique is justi...
The Yakub Memon frenzy: Clear, time bound procedures will end unnecessary controversy over executionsIndia’s excruciatingly slow judicial system and low conviction rates have led to much resentment. When there seems to be no end in sight ev...