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Attorney-General wants salaries of SC, HC judges doubled or tripled and retirement age raised Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Monday called the Indian judiciary the “most robust in the world”. The outgoing Chief Justice’s declaration, in his farewell speech a day before he retires, comes even as Attorney-General …

What we wear, eat, say, read and think are no longer “small and insignificant” questions about our personal lives. They have become issues which “cut and divide us.” They make us hate and despise those who are different, Chief Justice of India-designate Justice Ranjan Gogoi said on Monday in the …

Quashes transit remand for Navlakha given by lower court The Delhi High Court on Monday set free journalist and social activist Gautam Navlakha from house arrest, quashing a local court order granting transit remand to the Maharashtra police to transfer him to Pune in connection with Koregaon-Bhima violence case. A …

A Syrian rebel alliance has not pulled any heavy arms from the country’s north, its spokesman said on Sunday, denying reports it had begun implementing a demilitarisation deal there. Russia and Turkey reached a deal earlier this month to create a buffer zone around the opposition stronghold of Idlib that …

Will not allow fake news and targeted voter messaging Internet major Google and social media giants Twitter and Facebook have assured the Election Commission that they will not allow their platforms to be used for anything which affects the sanctity of polls during the campaign period, Chief Election Commissioner O.P. …

150 people will march from Andhra Pradesh to Chhattisgarh Around 150 people, from various States affected by Maoist insurgency will begin a 186-km long ‘Peace Padyatra’ (peace march) on Monday to appeal to “all sides to give peace a chance.” The Peace Padyatra, which will start from the Shabri Gandhi …

Special assistant to Nawaz Sharif says both countries have missed many opportunities, which further restrict engagement The back-channel talks between the National Security Advisers of India and Pakistan from 2015 to 2018 were a ‘good instrument’, says Syed Tariq Fatemi , special assistant on foreign affairs to former Pakistan Prime …

The Supreme Court’s challenge to patriarchy has been on-going across Benches, CJIs The past two years have seen the Supreme Court progressively question patriarchy in religion to ensure emancipation for women, and set the course for the future. But majority decisions in the court continue to rely on legal technicalities …

Linking New Delhi to Peshawar school attack dishonours memory of the innocent lives lost to terrorists, envoy tells UN Pakistan’s attempts to link India to the 2014 Peshawar terrorist attack were “most outrageous”, New Delhi told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday. During his address earlier at the …

It was carrying PoK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider for a condolence meeting The Army on Sunday said the troops manning the Line of Control (LoC) in the Pir Panjal Valley’s Poonch district opened fire at a Pakistani helicopter, which was carrying Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, …