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Call of the ocean…

A South Kolkata residential society organizes a spiritual festival on a stormy evening to commemorate the blessings of Lord Jagannath Bin hari kripa trina nahi dole….

SC stays Madras HC order on cow and calf slaughter in Tamil Nadu

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the operation of a Madras High Court judgment that had effectively prohibited the slaughter of cows and calves across Tamil Nadu, while issuing notice on the State government's appeal challenging the legality of the directions.

A need for legal reform

Very recently, the Madras High Court, on 25 October, declared cryptocurrency a ‘property’ of the user. The question for declaring it as a property arose from a recent incident in which an investor, Rhuti Kumar, among other investors, lost savings in WazirX due to a cyberattack on the platform.

Justice in the Dock

The move to impeach a judge of the Madras High Court for a judgment that he had pronounced is patently wrong, because according to the Constitution, a judge of the High Court may be removed by impeachment only on the ground of proven misbehaviour or incapacity, which can hardly be inferred from a single judgement – even if demonstrably wrong.