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The disqualification of elected representatives has to be on the basis of substantial grounds.

Such a void: where the Vice President, the Prime Minister, and the Defence Minister ‘skipped’ an Army Day reception – was never witnessed before. This pattern of disparaging the military by the Modi government has now become par for the course, writes strategic affairs expert Uday Bhaskar.

Moshe Holtzberg was two years old, when his parents were killed in the Nariman House attack as part of the 26/11 siege in Mumbai. Now 11 years old, the young survivor is preparing to visit his birthplace on 15 January, as part of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s six-day tour to the country.

Ashish Goel discusses the letter from four senior judges to the CJI and why their concerns should not be dismissed out of hand.

I think I know a thing or two about corruption in defence deals. I also know how the CBI typically operates. While I have no inside knowledge of the Copter deal, my experience tells me that Air Marshal Tyagi is not only completely innocent but that he is being made a scapegoat to deflect attention from some very powerful political figures who would have benefitted from the deal had it gone through, writes Amitabh Pande.

Yogi Adityanath Ineffective In Karnataka, Says KPCC President

Audio: The Quint

Yogi Adityanath Ineffective In Karnataka, Says KPCC President  

Audio: The Quint

Legal Correspondent Vakasha Sachdev explains how the UIDAI looks like it has breached its obligations to ensure security and confidentiality of identity information under the Aadhaar Act 2016, but there are no effective ways to hold them accountable for this.

On 4 January, 2018, the Delhi High Court – through Justice S Muralidhar – handed down a death penalty reference (01 of 2016) commuting the death sentence of two death row convicts (Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla) in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case. I do not intend to reduce this piece to a mere abolition-versus-retention debate as most of us normally do (to politicise the debate) every time there is a hanging or a death row prisoner is waiting for the noose.

Nayantara Narayan demonstrates how the Triple Talaq Bill failed to address reconciliation of the couple - which is the norm when it comes to marital disputes in Indian laws - and how this creates complications not just in terms of the status of marriages, but also how to ever prove a case of triple talaq.