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Listen to this article: An ordinance must, by the Constitution’s text, name a circumstance. The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment...
Listen to this article: A pattern of litigation is now running across at least six contested religious sites in three states. It is doing to the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A widely shared chart posted by many pro-government journalists on social media highlights that India’s recent...
Listen to this article: The three-day state visit by President Donald Trump to Beijing from May 13–15, 2026, represents a significant shift in the...
New Delhi: On Thursday (May 14), Delhi high court Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma did two things that appear, at first, to be in tension. She initiated...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: US President Donald Trump will arrive in Beijing on Wednesday (May 13) for a state visit that runs through May 15,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi/Mumbai: On Sunday, May 10, after the assembly elections were over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Indians to...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged citizens to reduce fuel consumption, carpool, use public transport, work...
Listen to this article: Kolkata/New Delhi: Suvendu Adhikari’s rise to the chief ministership of West Bengal is not the story of a clean political...
Listen to this article: 1. A saffron sunrise in the East of India is on the horizon. An eastern corridor awaits the BJP. If it succeeds in installing...
Listen to this article: A question now sits on the Lok Sabha Speaker’s desk. Should the inquiry committee that was examining the allegations against...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On April 16, Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan disposed of a contempt petition filed by the NGO Lok...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The curtains have come down on one of Tamil Nadu’s most layered and closely watched election campaigns in recent...
Listen to this article: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi high court on April 20 dismissed former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s...
Listen to this article: The Narendra Modi government’s defeat over the Constitution Amendment three-Bills package to get new rules for the next...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, ever since it has come to power in 2014, has been bothered by the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are really very worried about India’s population – or so they...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Like the sudden whim of demonetisation ten years ago, devaluing currency notes and living to regret it later, the...
Listen to this article: On April 8, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta asked a nine-judge Constitution Bench to bury a doctrine. The doctrine is...
Listen to this article: With the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, the fallout from the recent war by the United States and Israel on Iran is now...
Listen to this article: On April 2, a bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe delivered a judgment in M/s A.K.G. Construction and Developers...
Listen to this article: The Supreme Court’s April 2 ruling in the Grand Venice case deserves attention for a reason larger than the buyer-builder...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent comparison of the US and Israel-initiated West Asia conflict with COVID-19...
Listen to this article: Recovering black money from Swiss banks was one of the most potent promises of the 2014 general election campaign. Narendra...
Listen to this article: The Supreme Court of India told the Delhi high court on April 1 that it does not maintain judge-specific information on...
Listen to this article: On March 30, the Rajasthan high court’s Jodhpur bench delivered its judgment in Ganga Kumari v. State of Rajasthan, a case...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: What explains the Indian rupees woes? As it routinely closes at “historic lows”, most recently at 94.85 to the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On March 19, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan upheld the conviction of two...
Listen to this article: In late March 2026, two Indian courts delivered sharply contrasting signals on corporate fraud. On March 23, a three-judge...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: When the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closure report on December 17, 2014 clearing former coal...
Listen to this article: On Wednesday (March 25), a bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi of the Supreme Court cancelled the bail granted...
Listen to this article: Every few months, Indian media proclaims that “Modi is the world’s most popular leader,” citing approval numbers from an...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Questions arise about the most recent whim of the Narendra Modi government, of advancing the date for the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Supreme Court’s three judgments delivered on March 24, 2026 in Lt. Col. Pooja Pal, Yogendra Kumar Singh, and...
Listen to this article: The emergence of Pakistan, alongside Egypt and Türkiye, as a primary back-channel interlocutor between Iran and the United...
Listen to this article: On the morning of Eid-ul-Fitr, March 21, a Station House Officer in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district told a gathering of...
Listen to this article: On Tuesday (March 17), a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan delivered...
Listen to this article: On Saturday (March 14), the Union government revoked climate activist Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under the National Security...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: When Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X this week, he was not really speaking to India – but it...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: India is staring at its gravest external crisis in years, and yet the government’s choices remain shrouded in...
Listen to this article: On March 12, 2026, a bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Concerns raised by the opposition and strategic experts – in the wake of the US telling India where it can and...
Listen to this article: The Supreme Court’s judgment on Wednesday (March 11) permitting the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from 32-year-old...
Listen to this article: This week, two things are happening simultaneously in Indian politics, and the coincidence is instructive. The Rajya Sabha...
New Delhi: As oil prices shoot up sharply in the global market, early today, “oil prices rose 18% in just 18 minutes”. Indian prices of oil, LPG...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: As India continues to maintain silence on the killing of Iranian supreme leader, the Modi government’s uneasy...
Listen to this article: The Supreme Court’s order in ‘In Re: Social Science Textbook for Grade-8 (Part-2) Published By NCERT and Ancillary...
Pakistani cricketers find themselves at the centre of yet another transnational cricket-politics storm, this time in a tournament not even played in...
Listen to this article: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial visit to Israel comes at an inappropriate time when the region is in...
Listen to this article: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Israel this week arrives at a moment of acute geopolitical volatility...