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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...

Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India is a major breakthrough in the Indian government’s efforts to bring perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attacks to justice

In a rare show of unanimity, the apex court’s 33 sitting justices have pledged full financial transparency, setting the tone for long-overdue accountability across the Indian judiciary

In a strongly worded judgment that reinforces investigative federalism, the apex court has ruled that unsubstantiated claims cannot justify transferring a case from the state police to the CBI

The Calcutta High Court has pulled up a political leader attached to the Trinamool Congress for interfering in the work of a Kolkata film director on behalf of a technicians’ union. The state’s film world is today virtually controlled by the party, which has found another cash cow in a revenue-starved state with no industry

By Sanjay Raman Sinha As the National Education Policy 2020 gets implemented hopes are high for legal education as well. It is expected that with the overhaul of the education ecosystem, legal edu...

By Sanjay Raman Sinha The rollout of NEP 2020 has revived long-standing North-South tensions, especially over the contentious three-language policy. Tamil Nadu's staunch opposition is morphing int...

By Prof (Dr) S Surya Prakash The bloodbath, marked by a confrontation with Islamabad, reflects the Baloch struggle for existence and survival against the exploitation of their re­sources by the Pu...