-National Herald The police acted in gross violation of the law, killing 13 people; the judiciary failed the people and the media spread canards      The targeted shooting of peaceful demonstrators in Thoothukudi (also known as Tuticorin), which resulted in the Tamil Nadu Police killing 13 people in cold blood, and injuring scores of others, and the subsequent brutal crackdown on civilians, points to a sinister collusion between the owners of Sterlite...

-The Hindu Jaipur: Upping the ante against the Vasundhara Raje government, leading Hindi daily Rajasthan Patrika on Thursday left its editorial blank, with a thick black border, to register its strong opposition to the controversial criminal law ordinance that puts restrictions on the media and gives protection to public servants. The newspaper headquartered in Jaipur, which has already announced its boycott of Chief Minister Raje, decided to leave the editorial blank on...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: State governments may not be able to allot residential plots in cities to serving and former MPs, MLAs, bureaucrats, journalists and judges of their choice by exercising their discretionary power as the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to frame guidelines for allotting public land at subsidised rates. Expressing concern over state governments' decision to allocate plots to well off people while lakhs of poor people do...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal will co-host a "world environment conference" here next weekend to discuss climate change, global warming, dwindling forests, energy resources, loss of biodiversity and other related issues. Parliamentarians, judges, environmentalists, scientists, lawyers and academicians will be among delegates from across the globe slated to attend the World Conference on Environment-2017, being co-sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and various Indian government agencies. The conference...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: National Lok Adalat camps today settled "out of court" nearly three crore cases across the country involving a financial liability of Rs 383 crore. Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar inaugurated the programme in Delhi, organised by the National Legal Services Authority (Nalsa). It was also attended by Justice Dipak Misra, the Supreme Court's second senior most judge. The programme, held mostly once a year, is aimed at reducing...