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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicLok Adalat

Topic: Lok Adalat

Why Punjab & Haryana High Court awarded Rs 1 crore compensation to a road accident victim

Court notes 24-year delay in awarding compensation, cites systemic flaws, rising medical costs, and victim’s lifelong suffering, including disability and loss of marital prospects.

300 cases settled amicably on Day 1 of Lok Adalat in Supreme Court, being held for 1st time

2,000 cases listed for five-day Lok Adalat, an alternative resolution mechanism that settles disputes outside the conventional court system.

Forget Modi’s ‘justice for all’ mission, Indian judiciary must do justice to its data first

Indian judiciary needs to walk out of Middle Ages to become a 21st century democratic institution. But it won’t until we are stuck with poor data.

On Camera

War in West Asia shows India must rethink tech sovereignty

Iran’s strikes on data centres in the UAE and Bahrain brings tech policy into focus. The war threatens the web of global connectivity that flows through these hubs.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.