Author: Raushan Kumar

Millions of Facebook users across the globe were left unable to access the platform on Friday after the social media giant suffered a major outage, with Instagram also reporting disruptions for a significant number of users.

A group of men playing cricket at a park in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, paused their game to step in and protect a woman who came to them visibly frightened, saying she was being followed by a man she described as “creepy.” A video of the incident has since gone viral online, drawing widespread praise for the players’ calm and decisive response. The incident took place near a housing complex and a school, where the men had set up a portable cricket pitch — a common sight in Canadian cities with large South Asian communities. By most accounts, it…

NEET-UG 2026 Re-Exam: The alarm on Priya Deshmukh’s phone was set for 4:47 am. It had been set to that time since the first week of January — an odd number, she explained once to her roommate, because round numbers feel like they can be negotiated with. 4:47 cannot. You are either awake or you are not. On the morning of May 13, the alarm went off as usual. Priya, a 19-year-old from Patna preparing for NEET at a hostel in Kota, reached for her phone, silenced it, and lay still for a long moment. The previous evening, NTA had…

The Supreme Court on Friday drew a clear line between knowing about a crime and being responsible for it — a distinction that may seem obvious to many, but one that courts in India have often struggled to apply when it comes to matrimonial disputes involving the husband’s family. The judgment, delivered by a bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Augustine George Masih, arose from a case that had been dragging through the courts since 2016, when a Kerala woman filed an FIR against her husband and his family alleging cruelty, dowry harassment, and bigamy. At its heart, it…

The Allahabad High Court has ruled that a husband’s responsibility to financially support his wife doesn’t end with his death—and a widowed woman can seek maintenance from her father-in-law.

The Supreme Court has released Pardeep Kumar on bail after he spent close to two years behind bars without his trial even starting, declaring that keeping someone locked up indefinitely without trial essentially constitutes punishment. A bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Prasanna B Varale overturned the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s July 11, 2025 decision that had refused bail to Kumar. “Almost two years have passed since the appellant was arrested without trial having commenced and conclusion thereof nowhere being in sight. Incarceration without trial amounts to punishment,” the Court stated. Kumar was picked up on April 13,…

The University Grants Commission (UGC) identified 32 fake universities spread across 12 Indian states that have been operating without any legal authority. Delhi leads the pack with 12 such institutions, raising serious questions about how these entities continue functioning right under the nose of regulatory authorities.

In a criminal appeal that has raised eyebrows across legal circles, the Chhattisgarh High Court has reduced a man’s rape conviction to attempted rape, nearly two decades after the incident occurred. Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas, presiding over a Single Judge Bench, partially allowed the appeal after determining that the accused did not penetrate the victim’s vagina. The court’s reasoning? Without penetration, the offense amounts to an attempt to commit rape rather than rape itself. The judgment modified the man’s conviction from Section 376(1) of the Indian Penal Code to Section 375 read with Section 511, slashing his sentence from seven…