Shivam Sharma

The problems of the edtech giant are increasing. After coming under the target of law enforcement agencies in India, the company has got into legal trouble in America. This comes at a time when it is facing an unprecedented debt crisis.

The deaths of six African cheetahs in Kuno National Park in the state show that the centre miscalculated in its plan to introduce these beasts into India. Will it now listen to the apex court and shift them to Rajasthan?

Doctors have often faced violence at the hands of those they heal. Kerala has now decided to bring out an ordinance to amend the Kerala Healthcare Act after a doctor was murdered while on duty.

Attempts by the state to conduct a caste-based census came to naught after the Patna High Court ordered a stay. The power to carry it out is vested with the Parliament which enacted Census Act, 1948.

It has become a regular front page feature in almost every newspaper—the photograph of some of the country’s top medal-winning wrestlers staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for sexual offenses. The matter has  now reached the Supreme Court and the question of who wins the legal bout hangs in the balance.

The apex court came down on the Gujarat government for its decision to allow the release of 11 life convicts in the case. The Court said that the judicial order required convicts to be in jail for the rest of their natural life, but they were released by an executive order. It observed, “today it is this lady (Bilkis). Tomorrow, it can be you or me. There must be objective standards”.

The Delhi police commissioner has ordered his personnel to use simple words in FIRs instead of difficult Urdu or Persian ones which few understand.

The Supreme Court had directed that all convicts and undertrials, released during the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest jails, should surrender within a fortnight. The top court also dismissed an application filed by a convict for considering the parole granted during the pandemic as part of his actual sentence since it was involuntary

The Supreme court recently said in a review judgment said that “courts should not indulge in furthering the notion that only a male child furthers family lineage or is able to assist the parents in old age. Such remarks involuntarily further patriarchal value judgments that courts should avoid regardless of the context"

The Himachal Pradesh government’s move to impose water cess on hydropower plants has created a furore. Hydropower plants have gone to court, while Punjab and Uttarakhand have declared the move illegal.