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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicFree and fair trial

Topic: Free and fair trial

SC tells govt to prep manual on media briefings by police — ‘balance of right to know & fair trial’

While hearing 2008 PIL, SC said reportage implicating a person being probed could impinge on their ‘personal dignity’. At the same time, media & consumers have a right to know, it said.

Blatant reliance on social media needs to be checked by citizens themselves, says CJI Dipak Misra

CJI Misra delivered the presidential address at an International Law Association event in New Delhi Wednesday. Here's the full text of his speech. My esteemed peers,...

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.