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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 ...

A rampaging mob killing a hapless man is not the best of sights; but it is a living reality in India. India has a history of extra-judicial killings by men in police uniform, alternatively termed as “encounter killings”. But taking of law in hands by the mentally fevered group of persons and torturing and slaughtering of individuals in full public view is downright barbaric.

By Prateek Som The Constitution of India is one of the lengthiest written constitutions in the world and contains a preamble, 470 articles, 12 schedules and 5 appendices. India is a better place t...

The Indo-China border dispute has now turned at least 65 years old with no significant headway in defining the border. Even the most rudimentary task of exchanging maps to understand the differing perception of the two nations with respect to the LAC has not been concluded.

The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill was passed by both Houses of Parliament on December 20 and 21 despite stiff resistance from the Opposition and to the disappointment of civil society and privacy ad...

When a former chief justice of India (CJI) demands justice and presents his side of the story by writing an autobiography, questions are raised about the judicial community and judges.

This year’s observation of the International Human Rights Day had a special significance for India. India got re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council for the sixth term with an overwhel­ming majority. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that this is an endorsement of India’s commitment to the human rights cause. “We will continue promotion and protection of human rights through ‘samman, samvaad and sahyog’,” he said.

Students at an online debate competition held recently put forth impassioned and reasoned arguments that touched upon social and political life, as well as abstract themes.