Category: Narcotic

For decades, Punjab has been struggling to tackle drug trafficking. Its proximity to the heroin-producing Golden Crescent — Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran — makes it vulnerable to the problem. This is why the drugs menace is also a national security issue. Last August, as the Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria said, the State, which shares…

Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel Martyr! is a book many will turn to, to find themselves — for if you are lost, this book might save you. The reader will ultimately find herself through the journey of Cyrus Shams — a poet, an addict in recovery, a straight-passing queer who is ambitious and vulnerable. Akbar has…

A seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, in a majority judgment of 4:3 ratio, overruled a 1967 Constitution Bench decision, which held that a minority community cannot claim to have established an educational institution if it was created by a statute. The majority judgment authored by the…