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Thursday, January 8, 2026
TopicLegal aid

Topic: legal aid

Legal aid, a decade delayed: Uttarakhand convict with psychosis spent 10 yrs in jail without appeal

The Supreme Court has pulled up the state of Uttarakhand in connection with the case of Pramod Singh, was sentenced to life term for killing his mother, in 2011.

Loudspeakers & a letter from a future chief justice—how SC body’s renewing prisoners’ faith in legal aid

In the last two months, the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC) has received 2,000 criminal appeals, a big uptick from the 700 to 1,000 it handled annually until last year.

Funding boost for UK’s criminal legal aid lawyers

The government allocated £24 million to increase pay and travel reimbursement for lawyers.

On Camera

MEA should stop living in dread of Trump. We’ve lived through Nixon before

Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

India’s defence sky gets a solar boost: Army orders iDEX solar-electric drone 

Indian Army has inducted loitering munitions, kamikaze and surveillance drones for over Rs 5,000 crore post Operation Sindoor from various domestic firms.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.