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In a tumultuous ten days, the president’s illusion of unchecked authority has collided with a hard wall of legal resistance, academic defiance, economic recoil, and a shifting public mood. The tide may be turning against a presidency testing the limits of American democracy

The horrific killing of tourists is a chilling reminder that the wounds of Kashmir are still open. The outraged nation with one voice is expecting the Modi government to teach a hard and harsh lesson to Pakistan

A series of incendiary remarks from BJP leaders and affiliated online voices has placed the judiciary, particularly the apex court, at the centre of a storm. The controversy follows rulings on the Waqf Act and gubernatorial delays in approving legislation—and it is raising urgent questions about the separation of powers, free speech, and contempt

The apex court recently delivered a pointed rebuke to a petitioner for filing an unsubstantiated claim in a politically sensitive incident that could have had far-reaching consequences

In a world increasingly engulfed by conflict and cruelty, the cold-blooded murder of unarmed tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam region marks a grim resurgence of terror in a land that was cautiously redi...

By Inderjit Badhwar In solidarity with my fellow classmates from the Class of 1969 and other graduates of Columbia’s School of Journalism, India Legal republishes this powerful alumni letter to Co...

In an extraordinary clash between the Trump administration and America’s top colleges, a wave of federal pressure threatens academic freedom, civil rights, and the nation’s scientific research infrastructure—all rooted in what one columnist calls a “cruel farce” of personal vengeance and ideological hold

Each year since 2019, the Tata Trust along with social organisations, have compiled the annual India Justice Report. The latest one, launched recently, provides some startling, and worrying contrasts when it comes to individual states. It’s a timely reminder that the justice system in India is not uniform, or on the same legal page

With the apex court stepping in to delay the implementation of key provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, questions of religious autonomy, constitutional rights, and historical legacy take centrestage in one of the year’s most sensitive legal battles

Bihar Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has stirred a hornet’s nest by asserting that the word Waqf “finds no mention” in the Quran: “It goes against the grain of Quranic teaching,” Khan said in the interv...