Dinesh Thakur, who exposed dangerous practices in India's drugs industry in 2013, filed the public interest litigations, which include a suit that alleges that the current drugs law is "unconstitutional".
NJAC Verdict Deconstructed
1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon has filed a fresh mercy petition with President Pranab Mukherjee just a day before he is scheduled to be hanged.
The magistrate decided to accept the SIT report, which found no prosecutable evidence against Modi and 61 others in the Gulbarg case, and reject the report of the Supreme Court's amicus curiae, Raju Ramachandran, who suggested there was enough evidence to charge him.
Former CAG and ex-secretary coal, petroleum & Chemicals VN Kaul hailed the judgment as a balanced verdict. He further added that it brings clarity between auction, revenue maximisation and public good.
Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad is one of the founders and key spokespersons for the NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) that has spent the last decade fighting legal battles on behalf of the victims of the violence and killings in Gujarat in 2002.
The Supreme Court (SC) stayed Allahabad High Court's decision on Ayodhya calling it strange and surprising. Has the SC acted wisely? Experts discuss.
Yesterday Binayak Sen walked out of prison after the Supreme Court (SC) granted him bail. But his conviction last December and the SC’s comments granting him bail have raised serious questions about the law of sedition as well as about the handling of Binayak Sen’s case. Karan Thapar discusses these issues with an eminent set of panelists.