The Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise at the Centre’s failure to file its reply even after being served with a notice on Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s petition challenging amend...

A judgment may have a history that is not easy to disentangle. Not every Indian citizen was enthusiastic about the Aadhaar project when it was instituted. The scheme was legalized through a money bill...

Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought reference to a seven-judge bench the Centre’s decision to pass the Aadhaar Act in 2015, on the ground that “it would have ...

The observations of Justice D.Y. Chandrachud while considering the bail application of Arnab Goswami reflected the spirit of the Constitution. The judge said that if the top court does not interfere i...

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Words evolve, but evolution does not mean full-scale distortion, or an inversion of substance. But such inversion is indispensable to the majoritarian rhetoric with which Indians have grown familiar. ...

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed entry of women of all ages into the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in Kerala.The five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in a 4:1 verdict, said banning ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that unauthorised absence by a member of an armed force — that too for 302 days — cannot be condoned, as it quashed a tribunal’s order that had reinstated a jawan say...

Many women in India may now boldly go where they have not been allowed to go before: the Sabarimala temple in Kerala. In yet another progressive judgment in a line of verdicts that have restored cruci...