By Kumkum Chadha Two speeches last week defined the proceedings in Parliament—one by Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and the other by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Both addressed the Motion of Thanks to the President’s speech, setting the stage for a high-voltage political showdown. President Droupadi Murmu, in keeping with tradition, delivered her address…
A local court in Maharashtra has directed the Bhayander Police to lodge a first information report (FIR) against Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar faction) MLA Jitendra Awhad, accused of making a statement intended to promote enmity between different communities in 2018. Thane Judicial First Class Magistrate Mahima Saini directed the police on February 3 to…
By Sujit Bhar A small Chinese company has developed a pretty impressive Artificial Intelligence (AI) large language model, DeepSeek, that ticks all the boxes and has been said to give Open AI’s Chat GPT a run for its money. The after-effect of this launch was so big that giant technology company Nvidia at one point…
By Kenneth Tiven If Donald Trump were a rock star, his second term in office would be marketed as “The Revenge Tour 2025”. Triumphant in his return to the White House, he is making good on his campaign promise: to punish and dismantle those who, in his view, disrespected his leadership from 2016 to 2020….
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg In a landmark development, Union Minister of State for Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, recently announced that the Advocates Act, 1961, is slated for amendment, potentially bringing beneficial provisions for General Counsels. The minister made the announcement at a conference hosted by the General Counsels’ Association India (GCAI), titled…
Our everyday conversation and social media posts are peppered with phrases such as Et cetera, Bona fide, Ad hoc, Verbatim, Vice versa, Status quo and Ad nauseam. Here’s the linguistic twist. They are all Latin phrases which have survived the test of time for over 3,000 years. Officially, Latin is a dead language, spoken only…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha A Supreme Court bench, comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan, made this significant observation while holding the Haryana government liable to compensate three appellants with Rs five lakh each. The appellants had been unlawfully incarcerated for over three months in connection with a murder case—an astonishing 26 years after the…
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by Advocate Mathews Nedumpara challenging the recent designation of 70 lawyers as Senior Advocates by the Delhi High Court. The Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran rejected the plea on the grounds that notwithstanding the senior designation of lawyers, the courts did…
The Chhattisgarh High Court recently heard a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting the operation of passenger buses and stage carriages without licensed conductors. The petitioner sought directions from the court to ensure that all registered passenger buses and stage carriages operating in the state have licensed conductors on board. The court heard arguments from both…
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that family members of a person accused of domestic violence, who did not come to the rescue of the complainant and remained as mute spectators, could not be implicated in a criminal case unless a specific Act was attributed to them. The Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice…