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“The Rights of Nature are a Global Issue”

Above: Protesters demonstrating against the practice of fracking and demanding that it be banned, in New York in October 2014/Photo: UNI The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), a human rights in...

Karnataka Politics: Surya’s Rise

Above: BJP chief Amit Shah and former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa (third from left) at a poll rally of Tejasvi Surya (waving)/Photo: UNI A 28-year-old BJP candidate from Bangalore South, Tejasvi Su...

Omissions of Commission

The ongoing poll campaign has seen senior leaders of national parties violating the Model Code of Conduct with impunity, but the Election Commission has been frugal in handing out punishment By Sha...

Milking the Armed Forces

Above: PM Narendra Modi greeting the three service chiefs at the 2019 Republic Day celebrations at Rajpath/Photo: PIB The government’s valour-for-votes call is unprecedented and unprincipled wh...

IAF Air Crashes: The Flying Coffin Syndrome

Above: Wreckage of two Surya Kiran jets that crashed in Bengaluru in February 2019/Photo: UNI Innumerable crashes of IAF jets are a testimony to India’s poor indigenisation, precarious spare parts ...

Regulating the Regulator

Above: Protest in Delhi against RTI Act dilution/Photo: UNI The NDA government’s move to bring the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners directly under the disciplinary contr...

Constitutional Morality: “No Entry” in Adjudication?

Prof NR Madhava Menon’s article gave currency to the idea that constitutional morality as a ground of invalidation is almost new. But that is not so as it is embedded in the Preamble and is different ...

JKLF Ban: Timing is Everything

Above: An armyman keeping vigil at Lal Chowk, Srinagar, during a strike called against the ban of JKLF/Photo: UNI In a tactless and impatient move, the centre has banned the JKLF just like it did t...

The Acid Test

Above: President Ram Nath Kovind administering the oath to Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose/Photo: UNI Lokpal faces its first challenge over allegations that former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa paid bri...

Judges & Femininity

Above: Convocation ceremony of the students of GNLU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat/Photo: UNI Can legal education give the foundation for cultivating feminine approaches so that lawyers are at least conscio...

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