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We have to part company with the precedents of the British-Indian period tying our non-statutory area of law to vintage English Law christening it “justice, equity and good conscience”. After all, conscience is the finer texture of norms woven from the ethos and lifestyle of a community and since British and Indian ways of life vary so much that the validity of an Anglo-philic bias in Bharat’s justice, equity and good conscience is questionable today,

Justice DY Chandrachud, senior Judge of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, during a recent hearing revealed the significance of immortal words of Tilak, during a Video Conference hearing. Remarks of Justice Chandrachud were inspired by seeing painting in the background of appearing Senior Counsel. He revealed that he read those words every day when he was in that High Court as the words had great significance for justice.

By Sanjay Raman Sinha  As the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, it was an appropriate time to take a hard look at women representation in the judiciary. The crisis of gender i...

The turmoil over who gets to control Sherwood College, Nainital will possibly take longer to end. With two rival Church of North India dioceses vying with each other and a church that had amalgamated into the CNI also staking claim to the college's parent Society, the controversy has left the reputed College, founded in 1869, like the proverbial goose laying the golden egg caught in a very hard place.

The Karnataka state government’s order on hijab has raked up the issue of constitutional morality and minority rights. Is the State empowered to interfere with religious practises? Has there been a discrimination on the basis of religion?

Former Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Misra made the observation while awarding Rs 50 lakh to ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who had been  wrongly charged of espionage by Kerala Police. “Nambi Narayanan v. Siby Mathews”[1].

These three news headlines hammer home the current craze over cryptocurrencies, the world over. India is also no stranger to virtual currency and the rage has kicked in strongly. The government is mindful of the consequences of regulated use of cryptocurrencies and has made moves to regulate it by bringing its trade under the tax net.

The full bench of the Karnataka High Court will continue hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the hijab ban in educational institutions by the state government. The matter is before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice JM Khazi. Earlier on Monday, senior advocate appearing for petitioners, told the High Court that government can't restrict fundamental rights in the garb of maintaining public order as he sought permission for Muslim girls to wear hijab in schools and colleges.

By Sanjay Raman Sinha  The proposal to change central deputation rules of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers has escalated into a major conflict between the centre and states. On Ja...

By Vikram Kilpady The day Delhi recorded the highest rainfall in January since 1989, Harish Rawat was doing back-to-back virtual campaigns on Twitter and YouTube. Necessitated by the campaign bar ...