By Sanjay Raman Sinha The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has sounded an alarm over mounting operational and financial lapses in Indian Railways, uncovering losses to the tune of Rs 543 crore across 25 cases. These aren’t isolated incidents, but part of a broader pattern of systemic inefficiencies, policy violations, and weak financial…
By Neeraj Mishra It is widely acknowledged that the British love nothing better than writing everything down: gazettes, laws, rules, sub-rules, appendices, schedules, and administrative orders. For anything left vague, they devised a curious concept called the “spirit or essence of the written word”. Having done that, they promptly cloaked themselves in the robe of…
By Kumkum Chadha The much-awaited debate on Operation Sindoor finally happened in Parliament. Of course, it was not a smooth sail with the Opposition first stalling the House on its demand for the debate and then disrupting it again after time was allotted. On the first day of the Monsoon session, the Lok Sabha was…
By Dilip Bobb The petition filed by Justice Yashwant Varma, under XXX vs Union of India, to hide his identity, for quashing the in-house proceedings against him over allegations of “wads of cash” found at his official bungalow, comes after the required number of MPs signed the impeachment order. That process will happen in the…
The Madras High Court has prohibited the use of names of any living individual, photographs of any former Chief Ministers and ideological leaders, or any party insignia/emblem/flag in advertisements related to government welfare schemes. The Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Sunder Mohan passed the interim order on a petition filed by…
Singapore deliberately chose to hype up the copy-paste of arbitral awards by former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra to put Indian arbitrators in a bad light, Justice Hemant Gupta, Chairperson, New Delhi International Arbitration Centre said on Saturday. Speaking at an India Legal Research Foundation symposium, Justice Gupta said though there may have…
By Inderjit Badhwar There are moments in a nation’s journey that act as silent catalysts—neither dramatic in their announcement nor explosive in their immediate consequences, but historic in their long-term impact. The India-UK Free Trade Agreement, signed last week, is one such moment. In an age marked by supply chain disruptions, tariff skirmishes, and rising…
By Annunthra Rangan India has inked its most consequential Western trade pact in over three decades—the long-anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the United Kingdom. Signed last week, the deal reflects both economic foresight and geopolitical calibration. It is India’s first major Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with a Western economy since the EFTA…
A Special NIA court in Chhattisgarh on Saturday granted bail to three people, including two Catholic nuns from Kerala, who were recently arrested from Chhattisgarh’s Durg district in an alleged case of forced religious conversion and human trafficking. Principal District and Sessions Judge (NIA Court) Sirajuddin Qureshi passed the order today. Catholic nuns Preethi Merry…
The Supreme Court has directed the Ministry of Power, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to jointly prepare a coordinated action plan for reduction of carbon emissions from the power generation sector. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Atul S Chandurkar recently directed the three bodies to…