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Bihar is set for an interesting, yet unpredictable contest. At the heart of the 2020 elections is a strong push to effect a generational change in the state dominated by Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar and the late Ram Vilas Paswan for the past three decades. In fact, this will be the first elections since the 1990s when the Mandal Commission changed the politics of the Hindi heartland without Paswan Sr and Lalu Prasad. The former had passed away in Delhi on October 8, while the latter, currently in jail, may only be released on bail just a day ahead of the election results on November 10.

How do we integrate virtual courts and digital justice delivery into the broader legal ecosystem of India? The urgency for developing some methodology or procedure for this has gained new relevance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Delhi: Talented young forward Mumtaz Khan is thrilled to be back on the playing field after a gap of nearly six months.

New Delhi: Mumbai’s Moinuddin Amdani will spearhead India’s campaign against Nepal and Sri Lanka in PES 2020 at the 12th Esports World Championship as the online Regional Qualifiers take off on October 28.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals are putting behind their defeat against Kings XI Punjab and eyeing to secure their place in the playoffs as they take on Kolkata Knight Riders in their eleventh match of the Dream 11 Indian Premier League in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was well and truly a quickie, to put in cricket parlance. The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF)on Thursday formally inducted the Kerala Congress(M) Jose K Mani faction as an ally, making out a strong case for entry into the Guinness Book of World Records!

The letter addressed by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, directly to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) raises issues of grave constitutional importance. Does such a direct approach interfere with the independence of the Judiciary from the Executive? A Chief Minister is writing not in his capacity as an ordinary citizen but as a Constitutional functionary.

The constitutional commitment of the Union government to provide "free coronavirus vaccination for all" was offered on Thursday in the form of bribe to the voters of Bihar.

Wealth distribution data are notoriously difficult to interpret. This is because variations in stock prices affect wealth distribution, so that a stock market boom suddenly makes the rich appear much richer, while a stock market collapse makes wealth distribution less unequal overnight. In other words, the fact that the rich hold a part of their wealth in the form of stocks makes it difficult to estimate their total wealth which now has one durable component and another that is potentially evanescent.

Custodial deaths in India are a cold-blooded play of power and class, which cannot be viewed in isolation. When law enforcement agencies become perpetrators of violence, it becomes an ominous case of abuse of authority, which is antithetical to the rule of law-based system of democratic governance where human rights rule supreme.