Top News LIVE updates: Justice Ranjan Gogoi delivering the third Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture. (Express Photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the second most senior judge of the Supreme Court, on Thursday said noisy judges and independent journalists are democracy’s first line of defence and a revolution, not mere reform, is needed to keep the institution of the judiciary responsive to the changes in society. “The judiciary was the last bastion of hope and it needed to be uncontaminated, more pro-active and on the front foot to preserve its moral and institutional leverage,” said Justice Gogoi while delivering the third Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture on “The Vision of Justice” in New Delhi.
Other top stories for the day are – Pakistan’s former cricketing superstar and prime ministerial hopeful Imran Khan’s ex-wife Reham Khan has termed him as a man who led “a bizarre life” of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” in her autobiography; 18-year-old Hima Das created athletics history; and Soorma movie review.
Justice Ranjan Gogoi at the 3rd Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on Thursday. (Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Just 18 months after running her first competitive race — an inter-district meet in Sivasagar, Assam — 18-year-old Hima Das has created athletics history. The daughter of a rice farmer from Dhing village in Nagaon district, she got India its first ever track gold at a global event by winning the 400 metre final at the World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. Read More
Pakistan’s former cricketing superstar and prime ministerial hopeful Imran Khan’s ex-wife Reham Khan has termed him as a man who led “a bizarre life” of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” in her autobiography. The book that Pakistan was waiting for is finally out, two weeks before a make-or-break election for Khan. Reham has also claimed in her book that the 65-year-old Khan cannot read the Quran, believes in black magic, and had confessed that he has “some” illegitimate Indian children. Read More
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