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The India Justice Report 2019 released this month offers a comprehensive analysis of India’s justice system, ranking 18 large/mid-sized and seven small states according to their capacity to deliver ju...

Above: Bhopal gas victims protest against the buried toxic waste that is leading to serious health problems/Photo: Rachna Dhingra A study has found that toxic waste buried near the Union Carbide fa...

Above: Children at the morning assembly of a private school in Kerala The new guidelines introduced by the Kerala government for schools under the Board were slammed by the Supreme Court, which uph...

Above: Singers and songwriters like Honey Singh have been making a killing belting out lewd lyrics In an effort to check obscene songs which glorify drugs, use of weapons and alcohol abuse, the Pu...

Above: (L-R) Senior advocate, Supreme Court, and Chairman, ILRF, Pradeep Rai; Rajshri Rai, Editor-in-Chief, APN; Dr Upendra Baxi; Justice Shiva Kirti Singh; Justice Gyan Sudha Misra; Subhash Kashyap; ...

Above: Lahoria group members, comprising mostly youngsters, posing with guns in Jalandhar/Photo: Facebook/Gounder gang With numerous gangs sprouting in Punjab, the Amarinder Singh government has pr...

Above: A national highway in Maharashtra built under the PPP model during its heyday. Photo: mangalgiri.in This strategy was once seen as a panacea for all ills, especially the roads and highways s...

Above: One of the stock images Indian news outlets have traditionally used to depict sexual assault. Photo: Courtesy  Breakthrough India ~By Ariel Sophia Bardi On a balmy Sunday in April, a few ...

The first Indian-origin judge to be elevated to the UK Court of Appeal has come up the hard way through “being very good and working very hard” and does not want to be known for his colour or ethnicit...

BJP is slowly and surely making its moves in Tamil Nadu, and the release of Dinakaran, Sasikala’s nephew, recently will only add to the political machinations taking place in the state ~By R Ramasu...