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'Extremely positive step for women’s rights'

Interview with Jayna Kothari, legal expert.

Traffic moves around a smog-enveloped Connaught Place, the heart of New Delhi, India, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. According to one advocacy group, government data shows that the smog that enveloped New Delhi this past week was the worst in the last 17 years. The concentration of PM2.5, tiny particulate pollution that can clog lungs, averaged close to 700 micrograms per cubic meter. That's 12 times the government norm and a whopping 70 times the WHO standards. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Breathing space for the capital

By restoring its earlier ban on the sale of fireworks, the Supreme Court has affirmed that air pollution has become a serious health hazard in Delhi a

NEW DELHI, 25/08/2017: Chief Justice of India designate Justice Dipak Misra in New Delhi on Friday.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Targeting judges

The transfer and subsequent resignation of Justice Jayant Patel, whose handling of the Ishrat Jahan encounter case did not go down well with the power

NEW DELHI, 06/09/2017: For Frontline---- Balaji Srinivasan, Advocate-on-Record, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: V. Sudershan

‘Supreme Court was misled on NEET’

Interview with Balaji Srinivasan, Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court.

Informational privacy, the next challenge

The Supreme Court’s articulation of the broad contours of the right to privacy is very valuable, says legal expert Chinmayi Arun.

NEW DELHI, 03/01/2017: Disignated Chief Justice of India Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar addressing the farewell function of Chief Justice of India Justice T.S. Thakur (not in the picture), at Supreme Court in New Delhi on January 03, 2017.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar.

Instant talaq illegal

An account of the legal battle in the triple talaq case, which began in the Supreme Court in 2015 on the issue of gender discrimination faced by Musli

NEW DELHI, 13/09/2011: Index/Archieves--- Supreme Court building, in New Delhi, on September 13, 2011. Photo: V. Sudershan

The Supreme Court: A story of ups and downs

The Supreme Court of India, whose jurisdiction and powers are wider than those of the highest courts of other Commonwealth countries and the United St

COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU 20/06/2017. (for Regular Page) Retired Judge of the Kolkatta High Court Justice C.S. Karnan being brought to Coimbatore Airport on the way to Chennai on Tuesday night after his arrest at a private resort in Malumichampatti on the outskirts of the city.
Photo: M. Periasamy

A wake-up call

The Supreme Court releases its detailed judgment in the Justice Karnan case but leaves key questions unanswered.

The Full Text of the new Constitution of Indian Republic as passed by the Constituent Assembly of India was signed by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Constituent Assembly of India at the Constituent Assembly Hall in New Delhi. (29/11/1949)

Debating secularism

Secularism is a priceless objective to strive for and defend given the grim challenges it faces from non-state actors, often with the connivance of th

A truck laden with coal travels along a track road in Bastacolla Colliery in Jharia, Jharkhand, India, on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Coal India Ltd., the world’s largest producer, estimates on its website that the nation faces a supply deficit of 350 million tons by 2016-2017, thereby overtaking import demand from China, the world’s biggest coal consumer and producer. Photographer: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg

Landmark judgment

On the basis of a CBI probe, a special court convicts, awards jail terms to and imposes fines on three civil servants of the Coal Ministry for crimina

‘They are usurping the power of removal of judges’

Interview with Mathews J. Nedumpara, counsel for Justice C.S. Karnan in the Supreme Court.

New Delhi, 26 January, 2007--Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo:S_Subramanium

For a more pragmatic view

Interview with Raju Ramachandran, advocate of the Supreme Court.

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