A.G. Noorani

A.G. Noorani was an Indian scholar, lawyer, and political commentator who was a Supreme Court and Bombay High Court advocate.

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Mikhail Gorbachev with U.S. President George H.W. Bush, following the signing of the bilateral chemical weapons accord at the White House on June 1, 1990. Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, died on August 30.

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with his new deputy, Tejashwi Yadav, at their swearing-in ceremony in Patna’s Raj Bhavan on August 10.

Breach of ethics

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New Delhi, March 27, 1948: When Chief Justices of the High Courts met to discuss the legal implications of the draft Constitution. Nehru was a guest.

Judges & their bogus collegium

The decline of the judiciary started early in the history of independent India.

NEW DELHI, 23/01/2013 :Justice J. S. Verma, former Chief Justice of India, addressing the media after submitting a report to suggest tougher laws for crimes against women , in New Delhi on January 23, 2013. Photo: V_Sudershan

Supreme Court and Hindutva

It is 18 years since Justice J.S. Verma delivered his flawed judgment on Hindutva, but no Chief Justice of India has thought it fit to constitute a la

Article 105(1) says that subject to the provisions of the Constitution and to the rules of procedure “there shall be freedom of speech in Parliament”. (ANI Photo/Sansad TV)

Privilege to expel

The Supreme Court ruling in the MPs’ expulsion case is neither surprising nor an exercise of “judicial activism” in the correct meaning of the term.

What is 'basic structure' doctrine that prevents alterations of the Constitution

How the Emergency of 1975-1977 necessitated safeguards against the amendment of the Constitution’s basic structure to curb violative practices.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (right), India’s first Union Home Minister, with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in April 1949. Patel’s reaction to the findings of the Pandit Sundarlal Committee Report was an angry one.

Of a massacre untold

A revealing account surfaces of happenings in Hyderabad state in the wake of the Indian Army’s ‘Police Action’ there in 1948.

Article 370: Law and politics

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