EDITORIAL: A skewed justice delivery system
The report is based on an analysis of data relating to the four pillars of justice delivery: police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.
Editorial: Subvariant spillover
The latest Omicron variant of interest around the world is known as XBB.1.16, named ‘Arcturus’ by virologists.
A rude gesture by the rogue cop
In the mid-1970s, Sidharth Shankar Ray’s police routinely abducted Naxalite-inspired students from their homes in Kolkata and bumped them off in the...
Satya Pal Malik’s damning revelations
That the revelations come, not from a sociology sophomore, but from the then governor of the then state of Jammu & Kashmir should be a sobering...
Lactose intolerance in South India
The agitators were seen flinging Amul’s products on the streets, while raising slogans on how these items would not be permitted in the State.
A raised fist for press freedom
The apex court was also critical about the State’s unguided, and more specifically ‘ad-hoc’ usage of sealed covers in the court of law, with an intent...
Tourism marred by medieval mindset
Merely a few days after this episode, India’s tourism minister G Kishen Reddy announced, with some happiness, the latest numbers for foreign tourist...
A roar 50 years in the making
From boasting more than 40,000 Royal Bengal tigers at the beginning of the 19th century, the number of tigers in India had depleted to 1,800 in the...
