The Supreme Court collegium has extended the tenure of six Calcutta HC judges for six months, after finding their judicial work and quality of judgments inadequate for permanent appointment.
SIR resulted in deletion of 90 lakh+ electors from Bengal’s electoral rolls. Most petitioners before HC are seeking early disposal of their cases by Appellate Tribunal.
The 35-year-old had approached the top court last month to join a batch of petitions, challenging the 2026 Transgender Act, which does away with self-perceived gender identity provision.
TMC LoP dispute illustrates a recurring template: by the time courts determine if a political decision was lawful, the practical consequences of that decision may already have taken effect.
However, HC did question Speaker’s decision during hearing of plea by Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, who was nominated for post by TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
SIT to be set up to address allegations from victim's parents on destruction of evidence, institutional cover-up & claims of multiple perpetrators as opposed to lone convict Sanjay Roy.
After her election defeat, Mamata Didi seems to be reinventing herself again. And for her first role, she has chosen to be a courtroom protagonist. Because Didi without a fight has never really been Didi.
Division bench ruled petitioner failed to show transfers would cause 'administrative collapse' — and had acknowledged EC's authority in its own petition.
Calcutta High Court is now at Kolkata's Justice Radhabinod Pal Sarani. Japan has monuments dedicated to the Indian jurist, known for his powerful dissent in the 'Tokyo Trial'.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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