The Madras High Court recently observed that pregnancy and motherhood cannot become reasons to deprive women of their right to education while granting relief to a woman pursuing her Master of Laws (LLM) degree. The single-judge Bench of Justice N Anand Venkatesh passed the order while hearing a petition filed by a student who was…
The Karnataka High Court has held that the maintenance of Minimum Average Balance (MAB) by a bank customer is only a contractual condition governing the banker-customer relationship and cannot be treated as “consideration” for banking services under Sections 65B(44), 66B, 66E(e) and 67 of the Finance Act, 1994. The single-judge Bengaluru Bench of Justice SR…
By Inderjit Badhwar The great political struggles of history have often revolved around control—of land, trade routes, natural resources, and strategic infrastructure. The twenty-first century presents a new variation of that old contest. The battleground is digital. The resource is data. And the stakes may be no less consequential than those that shaped the colonial…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha Breaking new ground in intermediary liability and platform-wide censorship, the Delhi High Court has upheld the government’s interim ban on Telegram in the run-up to the NEET-UG re-examination. In Telegram FZ LLC vs Union of India, Justice Tejas Karia dismissed Telegram’s challenge to the centre’s order blocking the entire messaging platform…
The Maharashtra unit of the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) have approached the Bombay High Court, challenging the constitutional validity of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, 2025, contending that the legislation conferred excessive and arbitrary powers on the executive and posed a serious threat to fundamental rights guaranteed…
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by Tamil Nadu businessman PR Rajesh Kumar challenging the legality of search and seizure operations conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at his residence in May 2025 in connection with the investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, allegedly linked to the Tamil Nadu…
YouTuber and journalist A Shankar, popularly known as Savukku Shankar, has moved the Madras High Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Director of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) Arun IPS, relying on recent adverse observations and findings made against the officer by the High Court while setting aside a preventive detention order….
By Kenneth Tiven The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding represents a tacit admission that large-scale aerial bombardment, a defining military strategy of the 20th century, is no longer the decisive instrument many civilian leaders imagine it to be. The often-cited definition of insanity—doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result—is commonly attributed to physicist…
If Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP)-turned-rebel Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is the mastermind behind the splitting of the party, Satabdi Roy is the second-in-command. Unlike Ghosh, Roy is not the “chief disrupter” so to speak, but she is certainly one who has played a major role in weaning away MPs from a party that former…
In a country where young consenting couples are still killed in the name of “honour”, the law often finds itself confronting not merely crime, but deeply entrenched social attitudes. Official figures may appear modest, yet their implications are profound. According to National Crime Records Bureau data for 2022, at least 18 honour killings were reported…