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Sunday, July 27, 2025
TopicJustice Markandey Katju

Topic: Justice Markandey Katju

Katju’s Twitter account suspended. The ex-SC judge requests it to be restored in letter to Elon Musk

Markandey Katju is an outspoken commentator on social media. He has said his account was 'suddenly suspended'. Twitter support has responded that the account will remain so.

Markandey Katju back on social media, with hot takes and tales of encounter with ‘young ladies’

From explaining why Urdu poetry is 'thoroughly secular' to hoping for reuniting India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the former Supreme Court judge is dishing out posts one after another.

Kailash Nath Katju rose from office to office ‘waging a war’. For him, India came first

Beyond politics, Katju was a man who could furnish a 'soldier's answer' to Mountbatten as easily as sleeping in a villager's hut on a small cot.

‘Astonishing, grossly insensitive’ — what UK court said on Katju comparing BJP govt to Hitler

Former SC judge Markandey Katju says UK judge's remarks were 'absolutely untrue and uncalled for'.

Justice Katju disagrees with Shivam Vij on ‘why Modi govt gets away with lies’

For about 90% of India's voters, PM Narendra Modi's lies are irrelevant and real issues don't matter in elections, says former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju.

AltNews co-founder Pratik Sinha takes a jibe at Justice Markandey Katju for copying tweet

Pratik Sinha took to social media to allege that Justice Markandey Katju copied an allegory for a piece on the Ayodhya verdict in Punjab Today.

Michelle Obama’s love note, Priyanka mourns a friend, & what Katju predicts

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Don’t lose your cool, you’re a judge now — Markandey Katju tells SC judge Rohinton Nariman

Former SC judge Markandey Katju writes letter to ‘younger brother’ Justice Rohinton Nariman after he threatened to throw lawyer Utsav Bains out of courtroom.

Justice Markandey Katju on why shoving corruption by judges under the carpet won’t help

In this excerpt from his book Whither Indian Judiciary, Justice Katju talks about his disclosures about the Madras HC corruption, the true facts and what happened.

No noose is good noose

The debate on the role of the media and the need for regulation is specious, dangerous, self-defeating and anachronistic in a mature democracy in 2011.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

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.