Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement calling for the US Senate to halt its confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court after a third accuser came forward, alleging Kavanaugh was present when she was sexually assaulted in 1982. “With so much uncertainty about these allegations,
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases . The first of these cases is Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority , which “tests the immunity of governmental ‘sue and be sued’ entities” and questions whether the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit used the correct rule in
This week the Supreme Court gave the green light to stemming the tide of dark money being pumped into our political system. Last month the United States District Court for the District of Columbia made a sound and rational decision to help protect our democracy
India is willing to take the lead in combating climate change as it poses significant developmental challenges, especially for developing countries, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has told a high-level UN meeting on the issue. India is the sixth largest producer of renewable energy, and
Joseph Shine, the hotelier whose petition led the Supreme Court to decriminalise adultery, is “a happily-married” Church-going Malayalee in Italy and, as his lawyer underscores, has no personal stake in the law scrapped by the court on Thursday. Shine told Mint that he just wanted to shield
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the name of Senior Advocate Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew for appointment as judge of the Meghalaya High Court. The Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Madan B Lokur made the recommendation on September 25. The Collegium noted that the recommendation was
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the elevation 17 advocates as judges of the Allahabad High Court. The Collegium resolution passed in the final week of Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s tenure intimates that the following names have been approved for appointment as High Court judges by the
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, struck down Indian Penal Code Section 497. Justice D Y Chandrachud while striking down the anti-adultery law said that a married woman can make her own sexual choices. By marrying, she has not consented to refrain from sexual relations outside marriage
The Supreme Court will is likely to pronounce a verdict on the Sabarimala case of petitions challenging restrictions on the entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 inside Kerala’s Sabarimala temple. Women of menstrual age are restricted from entering the temple as its presiding
The Supreme Court will be going to pronounce its verdict on the arrest of five rights activists in Bhima-Koregaon violence case on a plea by historian Romila Thapar and others seeking the immediate release of five activists. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had