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Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Targeting judicial autonomy

The government on Wednesday notified its acceptance of the first name, but continued to sit tight over Justice Joseph's...

27 April 2018 12:19 AM IST

Asaram Bapu. (Photo: PTI/File)

Asaram's life sentence to renew faith in justice

The sentence of life imprisonment till death handed. down to Asaram should help renew our faith in the justice system.

27 April 2018 12:17 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

If Wuhan meet works, that's the way forward

Wuhan certainly appears to mark a much-needed innovation.

26 April 2018 2:31 AM IST

Salman Khurshid (Photo: PTI)

Cong & blood of Muslims'

Many Muslims, traditional Congress voters, split away from the Congress after the Babri demolition.

26 April 2018 2:31 AM IST

The AFSPA was promulgated in Assam in November 1990 and the entire state was declared as a disturbed area as the activities of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) were at their peak. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

AFSPA still needed in J&K

The Army would do well not to misuse its power to search, arrest or shoot.

25 April 2018 12:15 AM IST

Vice president and Rajya Sabh chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Monday rejected the Congress-led opposition parties notice to impeach CJI Dipak Misra. (Photo: File/AP)

Opposition move to impeach CJI leads to sorry saga

The aggrieved Opposition parties are said to be thinking of moving the Supreme Court against the V-P's order.

25 April 2018 12:12 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

PM's diktat is justified

The realisation that all this is their creation should be a good beginning for the reappearance of commonsense.

24 April 2018 12:32 AM IST

CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury also criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for delaying the winter session of the parliament and said these were the signs that it was not willing to face the House. (Photo: PTI)

Yechury re-elected, CPM gains focus

Mr Karat has hewed to the traditional anti-Congress line of the communists formulated to defeat Jawaharlal Nehru's...

24 April 2018 12:32 AM IST

Sinha's departure exposes BJP

The party, which Mr Sinha left on Saturday after the association of a quarter century, is not the party he had joined.

23 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Unless the states act to bring investigation and trial to a close within four months of a rape incident as is envisaged now, the toughest laws on the statute books are unlikely to be deterrent enough to stop these barbaric crimes. (Representational image)

Will death penalty deter child rapists?

The planned national registry of sex offenders is a good initiative though as it could help in outing the names of...

23 April 2018 12:11 AM IST

Gujarat High Court on Friday acquitted former BJP Maya Kodnani in the 2002 Narodia Patiya case. (Photo: PTI | File)

Kodnani not guilty

. Suffice it to say that the wheels of justice have rolled on once again, but ever so slowly in a 2002 case.

22 April 2018 12:29 AM IST

CJI Dipak Misra

Move to impeach CJI seems misguided

Constitutional provisions exist to impeach the CJI and a procedure is laid down for it.

22 April 2018 12:24 AM IST