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Supreme Court gets a new judge, two High Court Chief Justices transferred
ON Monday, the Union government notified the appointment of Krishnan Vinod Chandran, the Chief Justice of Patna High Court, ...
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Mandir masjid and misunderstanding
Beneath the spires and minarets’ grace,Echoes the tale of a contested space.A land where prayers in myriad tones,Once blended ...
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The year that was—7 | Supreme Court on State-sanctioned caste-based discrimination inside Indian Prisons
This year, the Supreme Court struck down casteist prison manuals that had somehow survived the processes of democracy for ...
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The year that was—8 | Environment versus conservation versus man
THE petitioners were fortunate in the date for this one when Time and circumstances came together for a seminal judgment ...
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The year that was–9 | The year of the Hindutva judge
SPEAKING in the Constituent Assembly on November 4, 1948, Dr B.R. Ambedkar warned the Constituent Assembly about the fact ...
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Working hard
The law is a jealous mistressNeeds all our time every weekNo time is left for husband, wifeProspects of harmony are bleakSome ...
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A law blocked for a decade: Old imperatives and newer initiatives for regulation of private healthcare
Health activists and professionals from several northern states participated in the discussions on massive delays in the implementation of the Clinical Establishments Act, key provisions in the ...
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Intimations of the world’s last cricket match
FOLLOWING is a leaked copy— whose source, naturally, cannot be revealed— of a document recently circulated within a country’s ...
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Death by rape–Part 1
IN India, rape is still a gendered offence. However, it has shifted away from a purely penial penetration offence. A man is ...
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Quo Vadis, Your Honour? It is time to fix the judicial conduct crisis before it is too late
WHILE the current impeachment motion against Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav has captured public attention, it merely symptomises ...
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The year that was–13 | Great non-fiction books of 2024
BEING in the legal profession, my reading is generally limited to reading books on that subject, some new and others re-read.
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Right to information is being transformed into right to deny information before our very eyes
IT is worth revisiting two judgments of the Supreme Court. A five-judge Bench has ruled in P. Ramachandra Rao versus State of ...