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In lengthy commercial disputes, where fatigue, imbalance and uncertainty often prevail, courts must be careful before assuming that rights have been waived.

The Court is being asked to define how denominational autonomy and individual dignity coexist within a secular constitutional framework.

The Central government is yet to clear the recommendations made by the Collegium in February for the appointment of five ad-hoc judges to the Allahabad High Court and nine judges to the Patna High Cou ...

A private member bill named the Facial Recognition Technology (Regulation of Police Powers) Bill, 2023 has been pending since 2023.

The claim that regional benches would diminish the majesty of the Supreme Court rests on the assumption that legitimacy is tied to physical centralisation.

While National Lok Adalats efficiently clear traffic challans, the centralised digital “token” system undermines territorial jurisdiction and invites forum‑shopping.

Parliament cannot simply reintroduce a provision or overrule a judgment without addressing its underlying reasoning.

These directives are emblematic of a governance posture that presumes citizens must be fully visible to the State, while the State remains opaque to the citizen.

In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court moved from evidentiary uncertainty to doctrinal certainty without examining the underlying assumption that caste ceases with conversion.

The furious political opposition it has produced is the greatest possible justification for why such titles should never have been used at the outset.