Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India, India's Constitutional Odyssey: 75 Years of Evolution and Global Reach, edited by Si ...

Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. The Supreme Court of India (Wikimedia Commons) For seventy years, India’s courts have claimed the power to decide what counts as ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Tuesday tendered an "unconditional and unqualified apology" for the chapter on the judiciary in its now-withdrawn Class 8 Social ...

After the commencement of the Constitution, most of the Supreme Court’s major constitutional cases revolved around one central question: the scope and sanctity of Fundamental Rights. Time and again, ...

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday said that the Supreme Court’s 1973 Kesavananda Bharati case verdict, which enunciated the basic structure doctrine, is “not… a mere legal precedent” but ...

A Multilayered Analysis of the Ideological Structure of a Peaceful Community: At a Cafe in Cairov38.01. Setting: The Cafe "Alf Layla wa Layla" (One Thousand and One Nights) in CairoA quiet courtyard, ...

To date, US nuclear doctrine has worked; no one has launched a nuclear attack on the United States, or anyone else, since the end of World War II. Nuclear war is one of the world’s most pressing ...

Judicial Origin: The doctrine is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution. It was developed by the judiciary to prevent Parliament from using its amending power to undermine the core values and ...

Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Tuesday introduced the constitutional amendment bills for holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously in the Lok Sabha. Union minister Arjun Ram ...

I recently posted about the open fields doctrine of Fourth Amendment law, the rule that it is not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment for the government to trespass on to your open field. In my post ...