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HC seeks Centre, AAP govt’s stand on special public prosecutors in Delhi riots cases

The petition by Delhi Prosecutors Welfare Association (DPWA) sought quashing of Delhi govt's 24 June notification appointing the SPPs, including Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

Centre defends PM CARES Fund as a public trust, Supreme Court reserves verdict

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that PM CARES Fund is a 'voluntary fund' and no budgetary allocations to the NDRF or SDRF are being touched.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta withdraws from Delhi riots case ‘out of disgust’ after spat

A spat ensued between Tushar Mehta and Delhi govt counsel Rahul Mehra when the latter objected to the solicitor general’s presence in a bail-related case.

Tushar Mehta and Harish Salve need a refresher course in understanding criticism of courts

Mehta’s categorisation of some courts as institutions ‘running parallel governments’ is a signal to the subordinate judiciary. SC should have stopped him.

Shooting the messenger won’t help Modi govt’s Covid fight. Tushar Mehta should know that

It is now routine in strongmen democracies to shoot the messenger if you don't like the message, and the messenger inevitably is the journalist.

Who represents Delhi Police? Govt counsel spar in HC in hate speech case against BJP leaders

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the court that Delhi LG had authorised him to represent Delhi Police. Kejriwal govt’s counsel Rahul Mehra disputed this.

Govt’s lawyer in Rohingya, Article 35A and Loya cases is India’s new Solicitor General

Tushar Mehta, who is originally from the Gujarat High Court, will hold the post till 30 June 2020.

Modi govt keeps solicitor-general post vacant amid resignations, jockeying & speculation

Post not filled since October last year after Ranjit Kumar resigned in October  last year citing 'personal reasons'.

INX Media case: Delhi high court protects Chidambaram from arrest till July 3

The court also sought the investigating agency's response on the Congress leader's anticipatory bail plea and listed the matter for further hearing on 3 July.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Denied RBI licence to operate, Fadnavis govt scraps Maharashtra’s asset reconstruction firm

Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.

‘Can’t really win you wars’: What IAF chief said on drones, manned aircraft & Op Sindoor

At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.