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The Bina Modi-Lalit Modi case has shown the importance of Indian courts adhering to UNCITRAL’s model rules and principles while deciding arbitration disputes and not obstructing the ADR process.

abated over the course of history, nevertheless, the issue of gender parity and its tryst with the Indian judicial system has assumed the role of a Faustian bargain.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s twitter account was briefly hacked but restored almost immediately. A recent investigation by Bloomberg, the US-based financial services company reveals that Twitter has a project that protects VIPs and their accounts.

By Prof Upendra Baxi We are accustomed to prolix and profound constitutional homilies from the Supreme Court of India (SCI). These are, of course, very crucial. But the very short order delivered ...

By Justice Kamaljit Singh Garewal He hit me first, so I hit him back. This is the common excuse the school bully trots out when caught hitting a classmate. It is, after all, an act of self defence...

The evidence of a planned coup against itself by Donald Trump’s government grows almost daily. We learn this because an elaborate PowerPoint document outlining multiple approaches to stop Biden’s installation as president was created and circulated by then chief of staff Mark Meadows.

The Court has tried to reduce marginalisation of homosexuals and women in the armed forces through recent judgments. This goes to prove that even if justice is delayed, it is better than no justice at all.

apprehension about the right of a divorced woman to get alimony. Justices Indu Malhotra and UU Lalit held that it “was certainly open to the wife to give up any claim so far as maintenance or permanent alimony or stridhan but she could not have given up the rights which vest in the daughter (a minor) insofar as maintenance and other issues are concerned”.

While the CJI has made changes in the administrative side of the apex court, many challenges remain on the judicial side. These include the digital divide and adjudication of important constitutional cases.

destroyed by the very existence of human trafficking in that country. It targets the most vulnerable sections of the society and steals their fundamental right to life, right to dignity and right to freedom.