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Quota bill challenged in Supreme Court, day after passage

The petition challenging the quota bill in Supreme Court says the 124th amendment violates several basic features of the Constitution, including the equality code

2 min read11 Jan 2019
Politics

Two PILs in SC against govt’s move to authorise agencies to monitor any computer

Advocates Manohar Lal Sharma and Amit Sahni filed separate pleas seeking to quash the government’s December 20 notification that empowers 10 central probe and snoop agencies for computer interception and analysis

3 min read25 Dec 2018
Opinion

Opinion | Why this year’s Independence Day is not just another date of record

The next seven decades will overlap with the lifespan of 65% of India, which at the moment is less than 35 years of age. If not the country, we should worry for them

3 min read13 Aug 2018
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Menaka Guruswamy dreams of a ‘complete freedom’

As long as there’s discrimination on the basis of gender, faith, caste or anything else, the promise of the Constitution will remain unfulfilled

5 min read10 Aug 2018
Politics

Kashmir issue: SC adjourns Article 35A hearing till 27 August

Since Sunday, Kashmir has witnessed widespread shutdown in support of Article 35A, which guarantees special privileges to the state

1 min read6 Aug 2018
Politics

Ports do not need eco clearance: Gadkari cites Constitution

Union minister Nitin Gadkari said the Constitution does not prescribe environment and forest clearances for the development of airports and major ports in the country

1 min read3 Aug 2018
Politics

Arguments conclude, SC reserves verdict on Section 377

The petitioners argued that Section 377, in so far as it criminalizes homosexuality, violates Article 14, Article 15, Article 19 and Article 21 of the Constitution of India

2 min read17 Jul 2018
Politics

‘Amendment of adultery law is under consideration’

The centre’s stand was expressed in an affidavit filed in response to a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the law governing adultery, which only criminalises a man

1 min read12 Jul 2018
Politics

Aadhaar should not be made mandatory to give benefits to vulnerable groups, SC told

Senior advocate Shyam Divan told the Supreme Court that it was required to be established whether Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act was being used as an overextension of the coercive powers of the state

1 min read9 May 2018
Opinion

Inter-personal versus inter-group inequality

Their demands and interests would coincide precisely if populations were homogeneousbut that is rarely the case in the real world

4 min read24 Apr 2018
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