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Rajasthan High Court

May collapse any moment: Rajasthan HC initiates suo motu PIL over unsafe dome of its own building

Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court flags need for more commercial courts, seeks State-wise data on litigation trends

Religious Conversion

Allahabad HC orders ₹25 lakh compensation to 2 sisters illegally confined by family after conversion to Islam

Supreme Court

Immediate FIR mandatory for missing adults too: Supreme Court clarifies order, warns States of contempt

Kerala High Court

Why are you not suspending him? Kerala HC pulls up State over inaction against cop in Dalit student suicide case

Delhi High Court, Caravan Magazine

Delhi HC seeks The Caravan editor's response in ₹10 crore defamation suit by Nitin Gadkari’s son

Tribunals

Lok Sabha passes Bill for National Tribunals Commission to oversee 16 tribunals

Persons with disabilities

CLAT: NLU Consortium assures Supreme Court screen readers will be provided to PwD candidates

Justice Prathiba M Singh

AI disclosure will make lawyers’ lives difficult: Delhi High Court Justice Prathiba M Singh

Supreme Court

Plea before Supreme Court against mid-cycle rollout of NCAHP regulations for 2026-27 session

Telangana High Court, X

User not named in FIR cited by police: Telangana HC quashes police notice seeking X account details

Supreme Court with Aaj Tak news

Supreme Court rejects TV Today's challenge to ₹5 lakh compensation for violating child sexual abuse victim's privacy

Supreme Court of India

Drug trafficking very concerning: Supreme Court seeks response from Centre, States on plea for reforms in NDPS Act

Tabu

Delhi High Court orders takedown of derogatory online content on actress Tabu

Mosque and Loudspeakers

PIL in Calcutta HC challenges police order to remove loudspeakers from mosques, other religious places

Kerala High Court

CM VD Satheesan to mediate Jacobite-Orthodox church dispute: Kerala government to Kerala High Court

Columns

Clerks in a crowded Supreme Court corridor

Advocates' clerks: Recognising the invisible institution of the Indian justice system

Almost no serious attempt has been made to acknowledge, document or institutionalise the contribution of those who have quietly sustained the daily functioning of Indian courts for generations.
Courting Controversy by Nakul Dewan

Courting Controversy: Justice, now streaming

Being watched is not the same as being seen to act justly.
Virtual Hearing

Two Indias, one judiciary: The uneven rise of virtual courts

Uneven implementation of virtual courts risks becoming one more axis of inequality layered on top of the existing rural-urban and rich-poor divides in access to justice.
Image for representative purposes

How the structural paralysis of India’s judicial service recruitment is silently killing aspirants' faith

The nationwide recruitment freeze is not just an administrative failure; it stands in direct defiance of two decades of settled Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Tryst with the Constitution: Swapnil Tripathi

Tryst with the Constitution: The 6-month exception for legislators

The Constitution permits unelected individuals to be appointed as ministers, but only as a temporary exception that cannot be renewed through reappointment.
Bail box

Bail for the powerful, bars for the poor

The remedy does not lie in denying bail to the powerful; it lies in extending, with equal energy, the same solicitude to the ordinary undertrial.
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

Spotlight: Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan is emerging as one of the more outspoken voices on the Bench of the Supreme Court of India.
Law Library AI

The hidden cost of Ctrl+V: Trade secrets, AI and limited remedies

The settled principles of Indian trade secret law were not designed for generative AI.
Legal Jobs

11 rejections, 0 publications: What my CV taught me about law firm hiring

The fix is not to abandon publishing, but to stop treating it as a substitute for practical competence.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Legal Notes by Arvind Datar: The Sedition Trials of Lokmanya Tilak

The sedition trials that Bal Gangadhar Tilak faced and the imprisonments he endured, greatly contributed to India attaining freedom in the next three decades.
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