The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the University Grants Commission and the government on a batch of petitions seeking the cancellation of their directives to conduct final-semester ex...

Three former law ministers have written to Rajasthan governor Kalraj Mishra amid an impasse over convening of the state Assembly session, saying the delay in doing so has resulted in an avoidable cons...

A 100-plus collective of former judges, retired senior government officials and ambassadors, activists and academics has urged the Supreme Court to withdraw its decision to initiate contempt proceedin...

The Supreme Court Monday directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to respond to the petitions which have challenged the July 6 directive to all the universities and colleges to conduct final ye...

Holding or expressing opinion at variance with those commonly or officially held is the meaning of the word, dissent, in an accessible dictionary. But in India, dissent has many meanings and many unex...

As the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status is set to complete one year on August 5, former chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday called for restoration of its statehood and hoped t...

The Supreme Court on Friday took up for hearing an 11-year-old contempt case against lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan, who was quoted in 2009 as saying that at least “half of the 16 former CJIs ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the “voice of dissent cannot be suppressed in a democracy” and declined to stay the Rajasthan High Court proceedings on the disqualification notices agai...

Justice Arun Mishra’s observation in the Supreme Court on Thursday that the “voice of dissent cannot be suppressed in a democracy” had social media afire. Many highlighted the conte...

The Jagannath Temple administration in Puri has decided to break with tradition and preserve the three wooden chariots used in the recent Rath Yatra, dismaying the carpenters, a segment of the servito...