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The Supreme Court’s revocation of the 2002 provision allowing fresh law graduates to apply for civil judge posts marks the end of a deeply flawed and impractical policy that persisted for over two decades. While the phrase “better late than never” may feel appropriate on the surface, it hardly captures the depth of the issue or the long-standing consequences that arose from what was, in hindsight, an ill-conceived judicial experiment. For 23 years, the Indian judiciary functioned under a decision that ignored the critical value of practical legal experience, permitting individuals with no courtroom exposure, and often no real-world legal understanding, to ascend to positions of great judicial responsibility. It is not merely a matter of policy correction; it is a belated recognition of a fundamental truth: that there is no adequate substitute for experience in the practice of law, especially in the judiciary.

Children of Tamil Nadu are caught in the political crossfire between PM Narendra Modi led NDA government at the Centre and CM M K Stalin led INDIA bloc government in the state. Centre insists on implementation of the three-language formula under New Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and the State refuses to implement it. It has led to a situation in which children’s fundamental right under Right to Education (RTE) is being violated.

It is about a report on 423 criminal cases registered against 427 scribes spread over 28 states and Union Territories of India. It has a database also that analyses information on 423 criminal cases, between 2012-2022. It seeks to bring light on the offences most used against journalists, the reporting that led to the cases, and the journalists’ experience of the criminal justice system. The study was conducted by the National Law University in Delhi in collaboration with the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Trial Watch initiative and the Human Rights Institute at the Columbia Law School.

Ever since the Government of India picked up Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to lead an “all-party” delegation Group-5 under Operation Sindoor, the Congress has been under great humiliation. First, because Congress had not sent Shashi Tharoor’s name to the government; Secondly, the government chose him inflicting humiliation to the Congress; Thirdly, Shashi Tharoor accepted the assignment bringing further humiliation to his own party.

Social Media spies are giving sleepless nights to not only intelligence agencies but also to private television channels with TRPs to consider. Hit hard by steadily increasing numbers of YouTubers, these television channels have latched on to YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra arrest on charges of espionage to ask for "government regulation" of YouTubers.

Ideological fatigue and misperception of the issues that guide and help frame the strategies has been primarily responsible for BJP losing the initiative in Uttar Pradesh which was supposed to be the laboratory for its Hindutva alchemy. BJP’s modern ideologue had made Narendra Modi convinced that his ideas have always yielded positive results, and this time his design to take out “Tiranga Yatra” across the country will prove to be an effective tool for arousing a Hindu passion and spread and consolidate the Hindu support base.

LUCKNOW: BSP national President and former chief minister Mayawati once again brought back her nephew Akash Anand as national chief coordinator of the party. Much significance is being attached to high level meeting of party on May 18 when Mayawati created a new post of chief national coordinator and installed her nephew Akash Anand on this position.

It has been a little more than two months when Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati expelled her nephew Akash Anand from the party. But it has been a month when he returned to BSP and has now been appointed the party's chief national coordinator.

KOLKATA: It may well be called the ‘Guwahati Resolution on Manipur not made public’. It all happened in Guwahati on last Friday, May 16 when several Kuki MLAs, senior functionaries of Kuki-Zo outfits and civil society organizations (CSOs) – in all over a dozen persons – deliberated on what should be their future course of action. The conclusion, as gathered by IPA, suggests a hardening of stance on their part with implications for the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA), which is keen on holding at the earliest the second round of tripartite dialogue, as a follow-up of the first tripartite session in New Delhi on Saturday, April 5.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Courting controversies seems to have become second nature to senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha member from Kerala Shashi Tharoor.