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AAP split over RS nominations: Arvind Kejriwal has sparked a crisis of credibility by marginalising Kumar Vishwas and Ashutosh

By deciding to nominate Sushil Gupta, Narayan Das Gupta and Sanjay Singh for three Rajya Sabha seats from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has pushed his party into a crisis of credibility.

AAP names candidates for Rajya Sabha: Sanjay Singh, ND Gupta and Sushil Gupta to represent party in Upper House

AAP announced its candidates for the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. They are Sanjay Singh, ND Gupta and Sushil Gupta.

'I will finish you, but I will not turn you into a martyr', Arvind Kejriwal tells Kumar Vishwas as AAP rift over RS nominations deepens

In the aftermath of Kumar Vishwas posting his over 13-minute “We the Nation, Bold and Straight-Forward” video on YouTube and tweeting about it, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting of National Executive at his residence. There, his protégé Alok Agarwal argued that Vishwas, the poet-turned-politician ought to be suspended from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the contents of his video targeting Kejriwal.

AAP faces internal rift over Rajya Sabha nominations, Sanjay Singh and Ashutosh likely to be party nominees

The Aam Aadmi Party appears split over Rajya Sabha nominations, with a section of the party suggesting that it should nominate outsiders to the Upper House

Despite SC intervention, huge pendency still bogs down India's lower judiciary

According to the statistics present on the website of the Supreme Court as on 31 March 2016, against the sanctioned strength of 21,017 judges, working strength is 16,135 leaving 4,882 vacancies, which is staggering 23 percent of the total strength.

Narendra Modi's legacy should be bringing down the arrears of court cases in India

The Supreme Court, in its annual reports released in January 2017 on judicial administration 2015-16 and the lower courts in the country, has brought out once again the enormous pendency in the courts. But this is not new. It is only restatement of the fact

Executive vs judiciary is good for democracy but who foots the bill for stalemate?

The government needs to set up a system to respond faster to litigations before the courts, especially when it's party to over 46 percent of the cases that are currently pending in Indian courts

Madras HC judge CS Karnan to appear in Supreme Court and argue against his transfer

Sitting High Court judge, CS Karnan has written to the Supreme Court and will appear next month to argue against the collegium's mandate to transfer him.

Outgoing CJI TS Thakur urges judges to uphold judiciary's independence in farewell speech

Outgoing Chief Justice of India TS Thakur said it was incumbent on the legal fraternity to uphold the independence of judiciary, as he pointed to pendency of three crore cases, poor judge-to-population ratio and problems of infrastructure

JS Khehar is new Chief Justice of India, takes oath at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Justice JS Khehar has been sworn in as the new Chief Justice of India. He will be the country's 44th CJI.