The Supreme Court recently invoked it’s power under Article 142 of the Constitution and directed the Puducherry administration to regularise services of ad hoc 18 (15+3) lecturers, without any involvement of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Manmohan further directed the Central Vigilance Commission to conduct an…
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday made a resounding comeback to the national capital, ending a hiatus of 26 years by securing 48 seats out of 70 constituencies in the Delhi Assembly elections 2025. The saffron party sweeped the polls, winning a comfortable 2/3rd majority in an electrifying contest with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party…
The Gauhati High Court recently heard a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by Sangha Tanang, a resident of Mangio village in Kurung Kumey District, Arunachal Pradesh, alleging that a fund of Rs 11.82 crores was sanctioned for the construction of 12 community halls under the CD Block, Parsi Parlo, but the construction was carried out without…
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…