Hearing, sight and physical mobility are the basic requirements for a normal life. Of the three, deficiencies in hearing are likely to remain unrecognised. In India, 6.3 per cent of the population suf...

Hard on the heels of Narendra Modi’s last address to the nation came Amit Shah’s assurance that people needn’t worry because “there is enough stock of food, medicines and other commodities in ...

The recently released India Justice Report 2019, which provides a succinct analysis of government data across the four pillars of justice — judiciary, police, prisons and legal aid — ranks West Be...

A Delhi court on Wednesday offered Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, legal aid after he said that he does not have a lawyer.Additional session...

A high school teacher, who had been dragged, beaten and locked up by alleged Trinamul Congress supporters, on Tuesday narrated her ordeal before a team from the District Legal Aid Services Authority o...

The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal Legal Aid Service Authority to file a report in connection with the alleged physical assault of a woman in South Dinajpur district.On a praye...

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The Indian Civil Liberties Union (ICLU), a pan-India advocacy network of lawyers, activists, paralegals and students, has been providing free legal aid to those left out of the final National Register...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday warned against “politics in distribution of relief material and rehabilitation programmes” for people affected by Cyclone Bulbul.Addressing a meeting at...

The top American diplomat in Ukraine on Tuesday gave impeachment investigators a vivid and impassioned account of how multiple senior administration officials told him that President Trump blocked sec...