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Will Bunch: When will Americans flood the streets to protest our broken, corrupt Supreme Court?

So it turns out that a huge number of voters actually do understand that it’s essential for a functioning democracy to have a fair and uncompromised judiciary, even when the rules needed to make that happen tends to be arcane and unsexy. They finally get it ... in Israel.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

15yo boy sentenced to 7 years' prison after stolen car crash in Cairns killed teen passenger

The teenager has been sentenced in the Supreme Court in Cairns after crashing a stolen car into a tree, leaving one teenager dead and a child with quadriplegia.

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Fight that killed Gilberton man sparked over 'petty complaint' about a bottle of whisky

South Australia's Supreme Court hears a man who killed his friend of 30 years during a drunken argument is "distraught" that he caused the death of the only father figure in his life.

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Israel’s President Calls to Scrap Judicial Overhaul as Protests Mount

Israel's president urged the government to abandon attempts to push through bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary and seek a model with broad support as tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets on Thursday. The drive by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government to enact sweeping changes…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Outside groups take a first stab at a Supreme Court ethics code

The effort by the Project on Government Oversight and the Lawyers Defending American Democracy follows criticism aimed at the court for perceived ethical lapses and failures to deal with them.

WEKU

Rajasthan political crisis: Governor bound by cabinet's advice, say legal experts

Ashok Gehlot, whose government is facing challenge from 19 rebel Congress MLAs, including his sacked deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, said the state government requested the Governor to call the session, but he had not yet issued the order.

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Kishore Kunal: Meet the former policeman whose Ayodhya map was torn up in the Supreme Court

Beyond a city landmark or the contentious Bobby case of 1983, a legendary Patna cop continues to stay afloat in public memory. Kishore Kunal, former Indian Police Service officer of the 1972 batch, had one such moment yesterday.

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Celebration of diversity: Second Hindu College Pride parade conveys a sense of hope, freedom

Amid cheers and the shouting of slogans seeking “Azadi” from the shackles of heteronormativity and homophobia, Hindu College witnessed the second edition of its Pride parade on September 18. The parade, organised by the Women’s Development Cell of the Delhi University college with help from its various societies, saw participation…

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#Chidambaram: From CBI suite to Tihar’s jail no. 7

After multiple twists and turns throughout the course of the week, a Special CBI court today sent ex-Union Minister P. Chidambaram to judicial custody till September 19, in connection with his role in the INX Media case.

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Upper caste bhakts vs Dalits: Why some temples die, others thrive

With Supreme Court ordering the demolition of the 500-year-old Sant Ravidas temple in Tughlaqabad, chaos struck Delhi with thousands of Dalits, including members of the Bhim Army, hitting the roads against the verdict. Meanwhile, other temples and ashrams that were also been built on the green belt in the past,…

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How 3 Pune colleges helped Pune Police accomplish a ‘secret mission’ against ‘Urban Naxals’

On a cold December morning in 2018, a strange event occurred on the grounds of D.E.S. Navalmal Firodia Law College in Pune. The staff was gingerly led into their staff room for an unexpected meeting. The room was crowded with extra chairs and the doors were closed. Inside the room…

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Is this army officer a whistle-blower or an offender?

In September 2016, a sensitive situation reached the offices of Indian Army’s Eastern Command in Kolkata. One of its officers, Lt Colonel Dharamveer Singh of the Special Forces, alleged that a team of an army intelligence unit in Nagaland had committed fake encounters and dacoity against civilians in Assam, Manipur…

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Media lashes out against Press Council forcing a change of tone

Kashmir is under a complete clampdown since the past 20 days. Any mainstream TV channels will evoke a notion of seeming normalcy in Kashmir, however, ground reports from Kashmir in various news outlets enunciate a different story. With media being extremely divided in it’s a portrayal of the happenings in…

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How a key petition pending in SC raises questions on the finality of NRC in Assam

Matiur Rahman has been waging a legal battle against the inconsistencies that exist in India’s National Register for Citizens (NRC) regime since November 2012. Some of the questions that prompted his writ petition to the Supreme Court of India were: How could there be one standard citizenship law for the…

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The Original Lutyens’ Insider

Maurice Nagar chowk in Delhi University doesn’t exactly look like a place that could host a bustling public event. But, it did once — four decades ago. Old timers recall that a huge crowd had gathered here in 1977 when Arun Jaitley was welcomed in a public reception on his…

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Dalits claim Delhi streets over demolition of Ravidas Mandir

The roads in the national capital were in shambles on Wednesday as thousands of followers of Guru Ravi Das took to the streets and rallied from Ambedkar Bhavan to Ram Leela Maidan, protesting the recent demolition of the Ravidas Mandir in the Tughlakabad forest area.

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#RavidasTemple: Politicians queue up with opinions, but residents call it a ‘matter of faith’

The demolition of the Saint Guru Ravidas Temple in New Delhi has created a stir over the last 10 days. A bandh was held in Punjab last week and exams were postponed in the state as protests boiled against the demolition of the temple in Tughlaqabad Extension by the Delhi…

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How the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant

It was May 20, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party having won 282 seats in Lok Sabha, Narendra Damodardas Modi was unequivocally elected as the Prime Minister of India. He got out of a vehicle at the main entrance of Parliament and got down on his knees to touch his head…

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How the banned two-finger test persists in Kashmir

It’s a cold February day and it’s a cold table. Sixteen-year-old Abda is asked to lie down on it. She must do as she’s told. There are people standing around her. One person rolls her clothes up to her knees, holds her feet, and opens her legs. She shuts her…

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Monster city

“There once was a fair city, among cities of the world, the first in fame, it hath been ruined and laid desolate, to that city I belong, Delhi is its name.” So, said the renowned poet Mir Taqi Mir, over 200 years ago. If Mir were alive today, he would…

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How a group of LGBTQ students from IITs is taking up the fight against Section 377

The legal fight to de-criminalise homosexuality that started in 2001 with a petition by the Naz foundation has seen many twists and turns. In 2009, the Delhi High Court stated that section 377 was violative of human rights. However, in late 2012, the Supreme Court overturned this judgment upholding that,…

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Pollution versus politics in the uneasy town of #Thoothukudi

Even as governments, courts, lawyers, political parties and residents’ associations are grappling over the levels of pollution caused by Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin), a coastal town of southern Tamil Nadu, 13 lives have been lost in police firings in the last two days here in a bid…

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Court’s latest blow to Goa ore mining reflects failures of state

Goa’s iron ore mining scam may seem like an old story. It is.

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#KarnatakaCMRace: The season of ‘destination politics’ begins

The destination is now clear. Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) Members of Legislative Assembly will be stationed in Hyderabad to protect themselves from the onslaught of Operation Lotus 2.0.

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Everything there’s to know about the nataka in Karnataka

It was a bitterly fought election. A campaign full of rhetoric from all sides, a random pre-poll move to divide the Lingayat vote bank which seems to have failed miserably, a carpet-bombing advertisement spree, a premature celebration which has now turned into a dank meme, a dark horse regional party doing much better than predicted and then, finally, a…

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