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SC wants to replace ‘sealed cover’ with ‘public interest immunity’. All about new procedure

SC bench of CJI Chandrachud and Justice Kohli observed Wednesday that ‘least restrictive measure’ to protect claims of confidentiality and national security must be adopted by courts.

SC restores TV channel’s licence, says govt’s denial of clearance has ‘chilling effect on freedom’

MHA had denied security clearance to Malayalam channel 'MediaOne' over its alleged links with an Islamic organisation that govt alleged — citing IB reports — had terrorist links.

Statistics no reason to grant immunity, says SC on ‘misuse of agencies’. Opposition parties withdraw plea

CJI asks Singhvi how Supreme Court can say accused can't be arrested unless three-pronged test is satisfied if it accepts legislators have same immunity as common citizen.

‘National security used to deny citizen rights’ — SC tears into sealed-cover reports, slams govt

SC’s remarks against sealed-cover procedure part of judgment on Malayalam news channel MediaOne’s petition challenging Modi government’s refusal to renew its broadcasting licence.

Govt tells SC why it won’t change surrogacy law — ‘given societal norms, law in its current form appropriate’

In an affidavit before SC, govt says several provisions like ban on commercial surrogacy need no alteration. Petitioner's lawyer says govt affidavit 'not based on sound reasoning'.

‘Politically vexatious’: Gujarat HC on Kejriwal plea as it set aside CIC order for disclosure of PM’s degrees

Hearing Gujarat University plea, HC said plea such as Arvind Kejriwal's, when he himself was a respondent before the CIC, makes 'mockery of intent and purpose of RTI Act'. 

‘After 15 yrs of gloom, this Ramzan has brought light’, say families of men acquitted in 2008 Jaipur blasts

Mohammed Saif, Saifurrehman Ansari, Mohammed Salman and Sarvar Azami have spent 15 years in prison and had previously been awarded death penalty by a trial court in the case.

‘Better administration of justice’ — SC Collegium moves MP judge to J&K, rejects plea of Madras HC judge

While Justice Sreedharan of MP wanted to be moved out of state before his daughter joined practice, Justice Velumani wanted N-E posting to be able to retain official Chennai accommodation.

‘Google abused dominant position’ — NCLAT upholds CCI order & fine on tech giant, scraps 4 restrictions

National Company Law Appellate Tribunal decided against Google on all 11 counts framed by CCI & directed it to pay Rs 1,338 cr for its anti-competitive practices in Android market.

Suspended Indore college principal moves HC to quash FIR over ‘Hinduphobic’ book, says student had grudge

Student 'failed' in first-year LLM course & sought principal Inamur Rehman's help to clear exams, the latter claims. When he refused to help, student lodged 'false & baseless complaint'.

On Camera

A frosty start featuring ‘ULFA tapes’, thawed by a love of dogs. My conversations with Ratan Tata

Besides politics, his frustrations with business environment & inspirational ideas ranging from entrepreneurship to technology, aviation, philanthropy, we discovered a common passion: dogs

RBI’s policy-setting body keeps rates unchanged for 10th straight time, changes stance to ‘neutral’

Change in stance signals possibility of rate cuts, potentially as early as December, depending on inflation trends & global economy. Growth projection for FY 2024-25 retained at 7.2%.

Amid concerns about use of Chinese parts in drones, Army general urges industry to be transparent

Maj Gen CS Mann, ADG, Army Design Bureau, cites national security concerns. This comes after intelligence agencies flagged use of Chinese components in drones purchased by armed forces.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?