Jail, not bail, is the rule in today's India

It is not just the weak who are harmed by the judicial process's failure to grant bail.Any high profile person can be made to spend weeks in jail while the arresting authority shouts and preens for......

SC to hear Dec 16 convict's review plea next week

The Supreme Court will hear on December 17 the plea filed by one of the four death-row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang rape-and-murder case seeking review of its 2017 judgment awarding him......

Why death, when pollution killing us? Dec 16 convict seeks review

One of the four convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang rape-and-murder case moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgment awarding them death penalty, with his lawyer......

'Chief Justice should have resigned'

'These things are not forgotten, it will haunt the Supreme Court for a long time.' IMAGE: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. On May 6, 2019, a three-judge panel investigating sexual harassment......

Controversial deal to redevelop Jaipur lake before apex court

The dispute over the way in which the Rajasthan government is seeking to re-develop Jaipur's historic Mansagar lake and its environs, may come up before the Supreme Court today, report Paranjoy......

Amartya Sen is the only economist to have hurt India's poor: Jagdish Bhagwati

While praising the Gujarat model of growth, globalisation guru and eminent economist Jagdish Bhagwati said he was not going to vote for Narendra Modi, as he neither supported the Gujarat chief......

Tata Steel bags Golden Peacock for CSR

Tata Steel, world's sixth largest steel maker on Wednesday said it has bagged the 'Golden Peacock' award for 2009 for its corporate social responsibility initiatives. "The notion of social......

Satyam to be stripped of corp governance award

Satyam Computer Services, in the eye of a storm for financial wrong doings, will be stripped off the Golden Peacock Award -- the very laurel it used for trumpeting its corporate governance norms......