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Monday, November 10, 2025
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Topic: Judiciary

Supreme Court decision in Manoj Tiwari case is a cue for it to back off from sealing drive

Sealing buildings is the biggest example of the kind of judicial activism that Supreme Court must stay away from.

Supreme Court can use Sabarimala to clarify & limit its powers on review petitions

Supreme Court should be wary of the increasing role that review petitions threaten to play in our jurisprudence.

Respected judges & ministers, policing Netflix won’t make us sanskari

It is as if our courts and govt, having rid the society of all other evils, have taken up the onerous task of cleansing it.

What happens when corruption scandals hit the Supreme Court? Nothing

Indian courts deal with corruption charges against its judges in two ways: Transfers or looking away

Supreme Court to hear plea questioning Modi govt delays in appointing judges

Supreme Court’s move came on a plea that cited several instances when Modi govt has inexplicably sat on collegium recommendations for several months.

Supreme Court merely sniffing secret envelopes to see if there’s a scam in Rafale deal

Opposition has already approached the CVC and the CAG on Rafale deal.

Gujarat HC lawyers strike work over transfer of judge who ruled against Modi govt, Shah

Gujarat High Court lawyers allege Justice Akil Kureshi was being transferred to Bombay High Court because Modi govt 'disliked him'.

Firecracker order shows in post-PIL India, Supreme Court has no time for fact-checks

Delhi pollution ruling shows it is time for courts to retreat in order to truly uphold a citizen’s right to clean air.

Tarun Tejpal’s gaming of legal system shows why #MeToo doesn’t believe in due process

Five years after Tejpal was booked, he manages to keep stalling the case. No wonder women are disillusioned with the due process.

Indian courts need MBAs and not Chief Justice to deal with pendency

The blame for pendency lies at the judiciary’s doorstep.

On Camera

Pakistan is bluffing. There’s no proof for $6 trillion mineral wealth claim

The minerals that Pakistan purports to offer to the US are either in quantities too small to matter, of a type that the US does not need, or would be much more easily sourced from other partners.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.