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Himanta wife passport row: Telangana HC gives Pawan Khera 1-week protection, tells him to move Assam court

Defamation, criminal conspiracy case against Khera lodged over his ‘multiple-passport’ claims against Assam CM's wife. HC has allowed transit anticipatory bail.

Cash-at-home row: Justice Yashwant Varma submits resignation to President

New Delhi: A year after the controversy of alleged cash recovery at his official residence, Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma submitted his...

AI-generated art covered by India’s copyright law? Delhi HC gives copyright office 8 weeks to decide

Petitioner Stephen Thaler has sought recognition of copyright in his artistic work, which he says is created autonomously using his AI system, DABUS.

Sabarimala Day 3: Govt urges ‘desi lens’ for Articles 25-26, says SC orders relied on Western definition

The interplay between Articles 25 and 26 is central to the Sabarimala reference, which a nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant is hearing.

CBI opposes Kejriwal’s plea for recusal of Delhi HC judge. ‘Attending RSS event doesn’t indicate bias’

The agency rejected Kejriwal’s allegation of ‘ideological bias’, calling his plea for the judge’s recusal in the excise policy case hearing ‘wholly vexatious’.

10 remission applications denied, why HC freed man convicted for 3-yr-old’s sexual assault 22 yrs ago

The court noted that the SRB, by rejecting the man’s plea for premature release ten times, had acted contrary to the Remission Policy, 2004, and DRP Rules, 2018.

SC poses question to govt: ‘Could non-devotee have questioned Sabarimala ban?’

The over four-hour long proceedings in SC saw the Centre making strong arguments against the subjective concept of constitutional morality, which the top court has invoked in the last few years.

Sabarimala’s constitutional roots: Revisiting the 1948 clash between faith, freedom and reform

Sabarimala reference will ultimately decide whether 1948 constitutional compromise between religious freedom and social reform still holds in India where religion is both intensely personal and fiercely political

Delhi HC says Rana Ayyub’s posts on Hindu deities & Army ‘highly derogatory’, orders takedown

Posts on X from 2013 to 2017 were highlighted by AoR Amita Sachdeva, ‘a devout follower of Sanatan Dharma’. HC has issued notices to Ayyub, Delhi Police, MeitY and X.

In Sabrimala reference, Centre bats for ending ‘PIL culture’, flags ‘catastrophic docket expansion’

PILs are increasingly dominated by 'busybody or meddlesome interloper' petitions filed for 'notoriety or cheap popularity', often at behest of political or business rivals, it argues.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

India bond yields rise as RBI moves to drain liquidity, lift overnight rates

New Delhi: India’s sovereign bond yields rose after the central bank announced its first step this year to drain cash from the banking system,...

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.