The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on Meta Platforms Inc. and its subsidiary WhatsApp LLC over their data governance practices, observing that the commercial exploitation of Indian users’ personal data under the guise of contractual consent warranted close judicial scrutiny. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg John Walsh, creator and former host of America’s Most Wanted, once said: “One missing child is one too many.” In India, that statement resonates not as a warning, but as a grim daily reality. The crisis of missing children in India is not merely a matter of numbers. It is…
By Kumkum Chadha Today he sits smug: like many times he has in the past. It is yet another day of “a win” in Court. The Delhi High Court recently dismissed a defamation case filed by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede against director Aryan Khan and his debut serial Ba***ds of Bollywood that was streaming on…
By Binny Yadav Caste bias in India rarely arrives with a declaration. It survives in silences, in assumptions, in the ease with which certain words are spoken and certain bodies are addressed. For communities historically pushed to the margins, humiliation has seldom required explanation or intent; it has been routine, inherited, and socially sanctioned. It…
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to former Punjab Cabinet Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a corruption case alleging the accumulation of assets grossly disproportionate to known sources of income, valued at over Rs 540 crore. The Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta allowed the appeal…
By Pawan Kumar The International Criminal Court (ICC), an independent international criminal tribunal, came into existence in July 2002 at The Hague in the Netherlands through its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of 1998. Distinct from the International Court of Justice—an official organ of the United Nations that adjudicates disputes between States—the ICC has jurisdiction…
The Karnataka High Court has berated the state government over its alleged failure to curb the large-scale illegal sand mining across various rivers in the state, as well as the reported involvement of influential individuals cutting across political lines. The Division Bench of Justice DK Singh and Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju initiated a public interest…
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Union government to constitute a tribunal within one month to resolve the long-standing inter-state Pennaiyar river water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, in accordance with statutory provisions of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956. The Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Nath held that…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has approached the Supreme Court against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls currently underway in the state, undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The petition, filed on January 28, questioned the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s conduct of the revision exercise, alleging non-compliance with the…
By Bishwajit Bhattacharyya The Union Budget 2026-2027 (Union Government’s estimated receipts and expenditure from 1.4.2026 to 31.3.2027) has been presented in Parliament today by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Estimated receipts of Rs 36.51 trillion fall short of estimated expenditure of Rs 53.47 trillion, by Rs 16.96 trillion, which reflects a fiscal deficit of 4.3…