Rethinking Caste Abuse under the SC/ST Act
By Binny Yadav Caste bias in India rarely arrives with a declaration. It survives in silences, in assumptions, in the ease with which certain words are spoken and certain bodies…
Rajiv Nayar’s Winning Streak: Celebrities, Courtrooms, and the Long Arc of Power
By Kumkum Chadha Today he sits smug: like many times he has in the past. It is yet another day of “a win” in Court. The Delhi High Court recently…
One Missing Child Is One Too Many: Why India Needs a Unified National Response Now
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg John Walsh, creator and former host of America’s Most Wanted, once said: “One missing child is one too many.” In India, that statement resonates not…
Karnataka High Court pulls up state government over illegal sand mining
The Karnataka High Court has berated the state government over its alleged failure to curb the large-scale illegal sand mining across various rivers in the state, as well as the…
The ICC and the Rise of the Victim
By Pawan Kumar The International Criminal Court (ICC), an independent international criminal tribunal, came into existence in July 2002 at The Hague in the Netherlands through its founding treaty, the…
Supreme Court grants bail to former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia in DA case
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to former Punjab Cabinet Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a corruption case related to allegations of amassing…
Electoral roll revision: West Bengal moves Supreme Court against Election Commission
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has approached the Supreme Court against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls currently underway in the state, undertaken by the Election Commission…
Supreme Court orders Centre to set up Pennaiyar Water Dispute Tribunal
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Union government to constitute a tribunal within one month to resolve the long-standing dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over Pennaiyar river waters,…