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Rafale debate in a new light

ON rare occasions, the hearing of petitions seeking review of a judgment for its apparent errors leads the Supreme Court to debate contentious issues

PEOPLE living in the periphery of the Jhikargadi forest in Dhenkanal district in Odisha staging a protest to save the sal trees and the forest from diversion for industrialisation.

In the fear of eviction

The Supreme Court’s February 13 eviction order, which has been kept in abeyance, hangs like a sword of Damocles over lakhs of forest dwellers.

‘Another nail in the Rafale coffin’

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, lawyer-activist.

V. Venkatesan & Divya Trivedi

Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the swearing-in ceremony of the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, at Raj Niwas in New Delhi on August 9, 2018.

Elusive solution

A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court refers to a larger bench the dispute between the Delhi government and the Centre over controlling the National

Court punishes CBI personnel for flouting its order

Defiance of Supreme Court’s orders involves civil contempt, punishable by the Court’s contempt powers. In the case of the former interim Director of

Sabarimala: Devaswom Board U-turn may dash hopes of review petitioners

With the Travancore Devaswom Board, which administers the Sabarimala temple, making a U-turn before the Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench today on th

At a protest demanding the release of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, accused of sedition, in New Delhi on March 2, 2016.

Instrument of oppression

The charge sheet against 10 persons in the JNU case brings into focus the sharp rise in sedition cases filed in recent years, which can be attributed

Demystifying sedition

Interview with Anushka Singh, sedition law expert.

V. VENKATESAN, DIVYA TRIVEDI and TANVEER KAUR

Thirumurugan Gandhi.

Thin-skinned state

A look at some of the sedition cases that have made the headlines over the years.

V. Venkatesan and Anando Bhakto

Supreme Court gets two more judges

Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, who was Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, a judge of the Delhi High Court, were sworn i

Sikkim tribal groups seek reserved seats in Assembly

The Limbu and the Tamang tribal groups of Sikkim have filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court for enforcement of their fundamental and constitution

By Tanveer Kaur and V. Venkatesan

Seeking reversal

Review petitions before the Supreme Court raise several grounds to justify reconsideration of the judgment setting aside the bar on women of menstruat

TANVEER KAUR ,V. VENKATESAN

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