Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Saturday inaugurated four access-to-justice initiatives of the Bihar State Legal Services Authority, including the Victim Rights Centre (VRC), the VRC booklet, a dedicated helpline for the transgender community, and multi-utility vehicles to take legal aid to villages. Delivering the special address, CJI Surya Kant posed a foundational…
By Inderjit Badhwar There are controversies that concern a government, a political party or an election. And then there are controversies that force us to look beneath the immediate political dispute at the machinery through which constitutional democracy itself operates. Our cover story belongs to the latter category. The Election Commission of India occupies an…
By Neeraj Mishra Forget Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi for a moment. The more recent blockbuster financial investigation has been unfolding far from the usual centres of corporate scandal—in Chhattisgarh, Dubai and the labyrinth of hawala and online betting. The Mahadev betting investigation, initially estimated at a few thousand crore rupees, has now…
By Kumkum Chadha It is rare for an ally to tell his principal partner to sit up and take stock of what is going wrong and that too do this publicly. But that is exactly what the lone Lok Sabha MP from Sikkim, Indra Hang Subba, did recently. He told the BJP that the students’…
By Kenneth Tiven US President Donald Trump took centre stage at the United Nations General Assembly this past week, providing a global audience with an embarrassing 20-minute performance that demonstrates the aging and fragile lawless dictator’s self-confidence. Stoic silence—bordering on shock—greeted him at every thought, highlighted by his locker-room-style remark asking: “Will a deal be…
By Sujit Bhar When the All India Trinamool Congress lost the 2026 West Bengal assembly election and was reduced to 80 seats, there was an initial school of thought that Mamata Banerjee, being the fighter that she has always been, would reorganise the party and perhaps return stronger from the defeat. Then came the unthinkable….
Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Friday held an unprecedented open-house interaction with law students at Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna, engaging directly with questions from the audience in an unscripted dialogue on issues concerning students, the legal profession and the judiciary. The interaction, hosted at the university’s Ashoka Auditorium, was organised…
Supreme Court Judge Justice B.V. Nagarathna on Friday underscored the need to view mediation and adjudication as complementary components of the justice delivery system in family disputes, cautioning that alternative dispute resolution cannot be allowed to supplant legal rights and entitlements, particularly those of women. Justice Nagarathna, who chairs the Supreme Court Committee for Family…
Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant has called for a fundamental recalibration in the manner in which the justice system and society respond to children affected by substance abuse, stressing that no child should be reduced to a diagnosis, a case number or a past mistake. Addressing the national seminar on “Restoring Childhood –…
Four women wrestlers have moved the Delhi Sessions Court against the acquittal of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the sexual harassment case lodged against him. The appeal challenges the August 3 judgment of the Rouse Avenue Court, which acquitted Singh of allegations arising from complaints made by women…