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Stalking judges’ assets helps nobody. We must rethink how we audit our judges

Justice Yashwant Varma's resignation and guilty verdict sparked transparency calls. But public asset disclosure often scares future talent.

Justice Yashwant Varma’s defence made 11 requests to JIC in cash row inquiry. What it got, what it didn’t

ThePrint examines every request, application and procedural demand made by the former judge to the JIC, tracing how the Committee adjudicated each of them.

Cash-at-home row: The 3 charges against Justice Yashwant Varma & what Inquiry Committee found

Committee said Allahabad HC judge Justice Yashwant Varma’s defence was ‘evasive as it did not engage with central circumstance of substantial currency notes seen inside storeroom’.

Cash at home: All charges against Justice Yashwant Varma proved, says report placed in LS

The report, placed in the Lok Sabha, said the judge had 'failed to furnish a satisfactory explanation regarding the presence, source or ownership (of the cash)'.

‘History will record unfairness’—what Justice Yashwant Varma wrote in letter to judges inquiry panel

In his letter, the judge flags a 'deeply troubling pattern' where 22 out of 31 witnesses originally cited were dropped after cross-examination.

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...

‘No illegality’: SC rejects Justice Yashwant Varma’s plea, clears way for Lok Sabha inquiry panel

Justice Varma 'is not entitled to any relief' and 'no interference' by the court 'is called for,' a bench of Justices Dipankar Dutta and SC Sharma says.

SC gives Justice Varma time till Monday to file response before LS probe panel in cash recovery row

The judge sought extension after SC concluded hearing on his petition challenging formation of the panel, and reserved the verdict. The bench declined his request for extension.

Justice Yashwant Varma challenges impeachment proceedings over cash row. SC issues notice to LS, RS

Half-burnt currency notes were purportedly found at official residence of Justice Varma in Delhi after a fire broke out there on 14 March, while he served as sitting judge at Delhi HC.

Lok Sabha speaker sets ball rolling for Justice Yashwant Verma’s impeachment with 3-member probe panel

Birla informed the House that any further course of action on the proposal of removal will remain pending till the committee submits its report.

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Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

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.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.