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The makers of our Constitution had the wisdom and foresight to acknowledge that a document drafted and adopted in a particular age needs to be equipped with flexibility and adroitness to accommodate the demands of future generations.

opinion

Published on Nov 25, 2023 10:55 pm IST

State cannot take matters of liberty casually: SC to UP govt

The Supreme Court pulls up Uttar Pradesh government for not deciding the remission plea of a convict undergoing life term. (ANI)

india news

Updated on Nov 24, 2023 07:00 am IST

The primacy of liberty

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A bench of justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta held that even in the case involving the tough anti-narcotics law, the liberty of an individual would take precedence over the statutory embargo in a particular statute

editorials

Published on Jul 17, 2023 09:44 pm IST

Cannot keep accused under narcotics law behind bars indefinitely: SC

The Supreme Court asserts that an accused cannot be made to remain behind bars for an indefinite period. (ANI)

india news

Updated on Jul 17, 2023 12:57 am IST

Petitions against two PMLA provisions need to stop: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Apr 18 (ANI): A view of the Supreme Court, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)

india news

Updated on May 30, 2023 12:33 am IST

Decide plea against Google’s new billing policy by April 26, Delhi HC orders CCI

ADIF contends that the UCB was a cloaked version of the GPBS, which projects the hoax of giving liberty to app developers to opt for third-party payment processors (REUTERS)

business

Updated on Apr 24, 2023 04:08 pm IST

Best psychological horror games you can experience in 2023

Image Credit: Red Barrels

technology

Published on Apr 20, 2023 01:00 pm IST

Syndicate of IT officers with businessmen and hawala traders must be unearthed: SC

Setting aside the December 2022 order of the Gujarat high court granting protection from arrest to the income tax officer accused of demanding and accepting a bribe from a businessman, the top court noted that the high court erred in brushing aside the allegations lightly. (HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Apr 18, 2023 12:34 am IST

Centre opposes plea in SC to debar candidates charged with ‘serious’ offences

The petition was filed in the Supreme Court in 2020 (HT File Photo)

india news

Updated on Apr 10, 2023 10:22 pm IST

On liberty, the lack of judicial consistency

This is a country where more than 70% of prisoners are undertrials. At the end of 2019, more than 100,000 people were lodged as undertrials for more than a year. As cases pile up, jails are overcrowded and increasingly unmanageable. Why should those queuing up for bail in petty crime cases have to wait for months for a court listing while high-ranking individuals get an urgent hearing even when courts are in recess?

columns

Updated on Nov 20, 2020 06:36 am IST

‘Youth shouldn’t forget Gandhi’s message of Ahimsa’: President on the eve of Republic Day

President Ram Nath Kovind congratulated the country on the eve of the 71st Republic Day in his address to the nation

india news

Updated on Sept 01, 2020 02:02 am IST

Chidambaram taken to CBI HQ from his house amid high drama, arrested

Officers of the CBI, ED and Delhi Police reached Chidambaram’s home again soon after his press conference ended at Congress headquarters. When no one responded to officers thumping at the gates for a few minutes, one officer scaled the wall to open it for the rest. (PTI photo)

india news

Updated on Jun 19, 2020 12:22 am IST

Those who weaken justice, liberty, equality, fraternity doing disservice to B R Ambedkar: Rahul Gandhi

“Justice for all, protection of the weak, mutual brotherhood, equality and freedom remained at the heart of Babasaheb’s life. Let us take these ideas forward with full strength,” she tweeted in hindi.

india news

Updated on Apr 14, 2019 09:38 pm IST

Delhi’s ‘7 wonders of world park’ has replicas of Taj, Great pyramid of Giza, know more

Sandip Pisalkar said the project was quite tricky, and involved technical complexities such as moulding scrap material into a particular shape and carrying out fine carving.

delhi news

Updated on Feb 22, 2019 04:38 pm IST

Supreme Court cannot take a Janus-faced approach to personal liberty

A file picture of the Supreme Court in New Delhi. If, in its judgments on Section 498A and the SC/ST Act, the apex court adopted the perspective of the innocent individual wrongly arrested, in its judgments on anti-terror laws, it adopted the perspective of the guilty man standing ready to misuse the procedural safeguards of criminal law.

analysis

Published on Apr 25, 2018 11:48 am IST

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