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Can Justice Shekhar Yadav be removed? A look at judicial ethics code & disciplinary process

Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav has been in the eye of a storm after he made controversial remarks about Muslims at a VHP event. Supreme Court has taken note.

What is satellite spectrum allocation that led rivals Jio & Airtel to join hands against Starlink

Reliance Jio had written to Union telecom minister arguing TRAI incorrectly concluded satellite spectrum should be allocated and not auctioned. Bharti Airtel backed this stance.

Umar Khalid’s bail plea back before Delhi HC after 12 adjournments in SC. A look at case’s trajectory

Along with Sharjeel Imam’s, Khalid’s bail plea is to be heard in HC on 25 November by justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur. His petition has been rejected in court earlier.

Khalsa University vs Punjab: As SC quashes 2017 repeal law, a look back at the 7-year legal tussle

SC said it did not wish to go into allegations of mala fides in case & looked at two questions to rule that Khalsa University (Repeal) Act, 2017, was ‘arbitrary, violated Article 14’.

What’s Pannun after with his ‘murder plot’ lawsuit against India, and what happens now

The lawsuit comes days ahead of Modi's visit to the US for the Quad Leaders’ Summit and the UN's Summit of the Future. India has 21 days to respond.

Wikipedia is embroiled in a legal battle in Delhi HC. What is its open-editing model & how it works

Hearing a suit by ANI for 'defamatory' content on its Wikipedia page about the news agency, Delhi HC pulled up US-based nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the platform. 

In 1 yr, Aditya-L1 has found sweet spot with uninterrupted view of Sun, studied solar winds, space weather

ThePrint explains Aditya-L1’s milestones so far, its early promising scientific observations and which mysteries of the Sun it plans to unravel over the next few years. 

Why PM-WANI is falling behind targets & how govt plans to fix the public Wi-Fi hotspots scheme

With just 207,642 hotspots set up—well short of the target of 10mn by 2022—the government is considering lowering connectivity costs for small providers to improve expansion.

India has strategic partnership with US, comprehensive strategic pact with UAE. What’s the difference

Such terms have only entered the lexicon in the last 2 to 3 decades. Though there's no official definition of what they include, the terms serve a 'bureaucratic purpose', say experts.

Why a rare case of vaccine-derived polio in Meghalaya has sparked debate on ‘Do Boond’ method

Why a rare case of vaccine-derived polio in Meghalaya has sparked debate on ‘Do Boond’ method

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Elon Musk has seized on UK grooming gangs issue for his own cause, not for rape victims

The figure of the Pakistani immigrant sexual groomer is real—but also serves as a pretext for failing to address toxic youth masculinity and deep vulnerabilities of young women.

Manufacturing, construction & most services will drag FY25 GDP growth to 6.4%, govt estimate predicts

In its first advance estimates for the current financial year, govt predicts growth to be slower than RBI’s prediction of 6.6% & much lower than 8.2% seen in FY24.

ALH Mk-IIIs grounded yet again after fatal Porbandar crash. What grounding of a fleet entails

The latest crash claimed the lives of two pilots and one aircrew diver. The three forces, along with the Indian Coast Guard, collectively operate 330 ALH aircraft.

Manmohan Singh has a legacy beyond 1991. Nuclear deal with US shows his strategic vision

Manmohan Singh’s success lay in making a decisive and historic shift towards the West. It was also audacious, in my book even more so than the 1991 reform, given how little support it had within Congress and UPA.