Freedom is not quite ‘free’. The power of digital platforms — also labelled ‘technological giants’ — has brought this irony home. Whether it is the Australian Competition and Consumer Comm...

The institution is always greater — and more important — than the individual. Yet, the credibility of the whole is often dependent on the conduct of the parts that constitute it. This was one of t...

Size does matter when it comes the paper that holds the petition, a group of lawyers has told the Supreme Court in a legal notice. At the centre of the debate is something called the 'legal size ...

Sir — The Congress has blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for plunging Karnataka’s coalition government in trouble. The allegation, if true, would dent the BJP’s image. But what about the legisla...

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Sir — The response of the home minister, Amit Shah, in Parliament to queries regarding the Delhi pogrom was not only shocking but also ridiculous. Does he think that Indians are living in a fool’s...

There is no doubting the burden on courts in India. What adds to the load is the corrective action that the judiciary has had to take repeatedly in response to excesses committed by elected dispensati...

The more powerful an institution the more discreetly it needs to use its power. A complaint of sexual harassment in the workplace against the Chief Justice of India is undoubtedly a highly sensitive m...

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed anguish at the “systematic attempts to malign” the judiciary and “remote-control” it through “money power or political power”, resolving to send out...

Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde on Saturday said justice can never be “instant” or “take the form of revenge”, speaking a day after the “encounter” killing of four gang-rape-and-murder s...