In the heart of South Asia, Nepal has just made a groundbreaking move. It’s the first country in our region to officially recognize same-sex marriage. This is a big deal, especially considering the traditional views on marriage in our part of the world. There is a couple Surendra and Maya. They’re like any other couple ...

The Supreme Court ordered the Attorney General R Venkata Ramani and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to look into the suspension of J&K lecturer Zahoor Ahmad Bhat after he appeared before the top court over the abrogation of Article 370. Bhat, a senior political science lecturer at a government school in Srinagar who was suspended on ...

The Supreme Court of India has given the Union government permission to create a permanent council of experts to deal with environmental and forest cases, a significant development aimed at improving environmental governance. This action replaces the central empowered committee’s (CEC) ad hoc experts’ panel, which for the past 20 years has supported the Court ...

The former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in a writ petition in the Supreme Court accused Maha Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of meddling in probes and ordering cops to investigate as per his desires. He urged the SC for a prompt impartial and fair investigation by the CBI into alleged corrupt methods by Anil ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and informed India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva about it, the Ministry of External Affairs said. As India continues to boil over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, the United Nations Commissioner ...