Counsel Shyam Divan says that 123 (3) of the Representation of the People Act refers only to the religion of the candidates
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
The seven-judge Constitution Bench led by Ch...
Recently, a division bench of the Delhi High Court had to pass an order to get a seven-year-old child with a prosthetic leg admitted to a private school in his neighbourhood in the Economically Weaker...
Starting 2017, there will be no separate Rail Budget in February-end. The Union Cabinet has given its green signal to the Railway Ministry’s move, merging Rail Budget with the Union Budget. Finance Mi...
In a recent order in a public interest litigation filed by Dr Sabu Mathew George, seeking that internet search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft comply with the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnost...
At a time when the stand-off continues between the executive and the judiciary over appointment of judges to the higher judiciary, a major development took place recently that offers a ray of hope. Th...
The Maharashtra government once again seems to be courting controversy. In 2015, it had to withdraw a circular on sedition laws – which had billed legitimate criticism of an elected government and it...
The Government of India has, for the first time, issued a gazette notification under Section 12(4) of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), putting the Islamic Research Foundation of controv...
The latest National Crime Records Bureau report titled, “Crime in India – 2015”, confirms some assumptions, but reveals some startling facts
For Delhi to be the crime capital of the country, with t...
In an important judgment, the Bombay High Court recently overturned a four-year ban on the entry of women to the Haji Ali Dargah, off the Worli coast in south Mumbai, much to the cheer of intellectual...
The Maternity Benefit Bill, 2016, which provides for amendments to the Maternity Benefits Act, 1961, has recently been introduced in parliament and passed in the Rajya Sabha.