By Inderjit Badhwar
Even as the unholy alliance of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress is poised to form a new government in Maharashtra following state elections that threw up a hung assembly with the...
By Inderjit Badhwar
For most of last week, the Supreme Court has been
neck-deep in tackling a slew of petitions on the constitutional, administrative and law-and-order fallout in Jammu and Kashmir...
By Inderjit Badhwar
Our cover story this week zooms in on Sharad Arvind Bobde who will be sworn in on November 18 as India’s 47th chief justice. It will be a sobering day for the judiciary and for ...
By Inderjit Badhwar
Courts in India have inevitably become the arena to resolve issues concerning emergencies. Considering that our Constitution provides certain powers to the executive during the ...
Above: Gautam Navalakha/Photo: wikimedia commons
By Inderjit Badhwar
In his inimitable style, Professor Upendra Baxi, the reigning aficionado of the complexities and vicissitudes of jurisprudenc...
Above: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has been vocal against the NRC in India/Photo: UNI
By Inderjit Badhwar
Home Minister Amit Shah’s desire to expand the National Register of Citizens (NRC) t...
By Inderjit Badhwar
The unanimous decision by the highest court in the United Kingdom to enforce the supremacy of parliament and declare Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliame...
Above: CJI Ranjan Gogoi/Photo: Anil Shakya
By Inderjit Badhwar
We are entering the last lap of what will be one of the most historic and complex cases ever handled by the Indian judiciary. By pu...
Above: (L-R) Afzal Guru was deprived of his right to effective legal aid; lawyers in India had also refused to defend Ajmal Kasab
By Inderjit Badhwar
Increasingly, it has become the norm for Bar...
By Inderjit Badhwar
The World Justice Project, an international non-profit initiative intended to advance the rule of law worldwide, defines four universal principles: accountability, just laws, o...