A little over a month into his second tenure, US President Donald Trump is making news by the minute, so to speak. Within hours of taking over he signed over 20 executive orders: more than any US president in the past had on day one. That said, he also started by rescinding 78 executive orders…
By Inderjit Badhwar In a world increasingly dominated by the fusion of wealth and power, the assault on the American press documented by veteran journalist Kenneth Tiven is both chilling and profoundly consequential—not only for the United States, but for all democracies that draw strength and inspiration from the free press tradition America once so…
By Sujit Bhar Two recent sets of gruesome murders have shaken Kolkata’s collective conscience. The first occurred on August 8 last year, when a 31-year-old post-graduate trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered inside the government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital while on duty. The second, a chilling triple murder, unfolded this February in…
By Kenneth Tiven Revenge and the systematic destruction of perceived enemies sit at the top of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda—and at the top of that enemies list is the American media. He warned the nation throughout his campaign: retribution was coming for companies and individuals who dared expose him during the previous eight years….
By Sanjay Raman Sinha In a move that surprised few, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court recently took cognizance of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) final charge sheet in the case. The court issued summons to all accused, including former Union rail minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, his daughter Hema Yadav and son Tej Pratap Yadav, ordering…
By Dilip Bobb As the Supreme Court taken a worrying U-turn on its stand on free speech? In 2022, it ordered that Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair be given bail and rejected the imposition of a ban on his social media accounts. It said, then, that “Gag orders have a chilling effect on the freedom…
Poet & veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut have ended their five-year-long legal battle by withdrawing the defamation and criminal intimidation cases they had filed against each other. The Bollywood celebrities personally appeared before Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Bandra, where Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate AK Awari recorded the settlement reached through…
The Supreme Court has ordered the NCR states to compensate the construction workers affected by the closure of activities due to Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) measures in Delhi-NCR. The Bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Friday observed that compensation should be paid in accordance with its earlier order dated November…
The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a Special Leave Petition filed by expelled Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking suspension of sentence awarded to him by the Gujarat High Court in a custodial death case of 1990. Appearing for Bhatt before the Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, Senior…
The Supreme Court has expressed its strong disapproval of the Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court closing a matter related to land acquisition for a layout on the same day, relying on an affidavit filed by the Bangalore Development Authority, without giving the appellant an opportunity to meet the averments made therein. Terming it…