The new anti-paper leak law rightly raises the cost of organised examination fraud, but protecting merit will need stronger institutions and better governance. Nearly two million students were forced to retake the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) in 2026 after the examination was cancelled over an alleged paper leak. The disruption extended well beyond delayed admissions. Weeks of nationwide protests, the resignation of the Union Education Minister, the consti

The Bombay High Court’s recent decision upholding the cancellation of a gift deed executed by elderly parents in favour of their son is more than a legal victory. It is a timely reminder that parenthood cannot be reduced to a property transaction. By affirming that parents may revoke a property transfer when children fail to honour their obligation of care and support, the Court has reinforced a principle that is both legal and moral. The verdict in the Ashwin Ramesh Soni v.

From Aadhaar to e-passports, India has digitised governance at scale. But the legal architecture of citizenship remains opaque and poorly understood. The recent controversy over the Ministry of External Affairs’ statement that an Indian passport is not proof of citizenship has produced predictable political reactions. Opposition leaders questioned what document then proves citizenship. Government officials responded that nothing had changed and that passports have never been

Dr. Rumi F. Beramji Mumbai: In a jolt, the Bombay High Court has directed the state government to hold elections to the Maharashtra Council of Acupuncture (MCA) - which is managed by an Administrator for past three years – within three months, here on Friday. A division bench of the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) comprising Justice Ajit Kadethankar and Justice Vibha Kankanwadi were disposing off a petition filed a senior medical practitioner, Dr. Laxman Bhimrao Sawant

Dr. Rumi F. Beramji Mumbai : A senior medical practitioner has knocked on the doors of the Bombay High Court, alleging serious irregularities in the functioning of the Maharashtra Council of Acupuncture (MCA) and challenging the continuation of its current Administrator. In a petition filed through Advocate Sharad V. Natu, Dr. Laxman Bhimrao Sawant has termed the appointment and prolonged tenure of former MCA Chairman as “illegal and arbitrary,” and detrimental to the caus

The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2026 aims to remove criminal penalties from many laws and replace them with civil penalties to make governance more trust-based and business-friendly. The Bill changes 784 provisions across 80 Central laws and introduces a uniform administrative system for enforcement. Its goal is to improve regulatory efficiency, ease of living, and ease of doing business. The Bill was developed through a detailed and evidence-based consultatio

Justice Milind Jadhav observes that thousands of law students from rural and semi-urban backgrounds are steadily bridging the gap with their urban peers Mumbai : The digital revolution has emerged as a decisive equalizer and a boon for law education, particularly for students in India’s mofussil regions, according to Justice Milind Narendra Jadhav of the Bombay High Court. Justice Jadhav observed that thousands of law students from rural and semi-urban backgrounds - despite

Caught between constitutional duty and political suspicion, the new gubernatorial appointments underscore how the Governor’s office remains one of the most contested pillars of India’s federal system. The recent appointment and reshuffling of Governors and Lieutenant Governors for six states and two Union Territories by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, including the politically significant state of West Bengal on the eve of crucial Assembly elections, has once again br

India’s laws and policing must finally shed their colonial skin and learn to govern by consent rather than coercion. India’s legal and policing architecture still carries the unmistakable imprint of the Raj. Its instincts are adversarial, its reflexes coercive, and its imagination confined to order rather than justice. That gap between authority and legitimacy is not merely administrative but philosophical, and it urgently needs repair. Let us turn to statecraft as explained

While the Supreme Court has paused the contentious UGC rules, the episode exposes the perils of importing American-style campus politics into a very different constitutional order. For over a fortnight now, India’s universities appeared to be drifting towards the proposition that equality on campus could be secured only by formally excluding some students from the very definition of victimhood. Under the University Grants Commission’s newly notified Promotion of Equity in Hig

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New Delhi: The Delhi Bar Association (Tis Hazari) has exempted its members from wearing the compulsory black coats in summer in the...

Sultanpur: A special court on Monday deferred the hearing in a defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as bar members...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a petition alleging that the Assam government has reportedly launched a...

New Delhi: A Delhi court has compounded a criminal defamation complaint against wrestler Bajrang Punia after he tendered an unconditional...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Delhi government to withdraw seven cases filed by the erstwhile AAP government against...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking to withdraw seven cases filed during the previous AAP regime...

Indore: "God does not forgive nor forget," were the words echoed with profound bitterness by Justice Duppala Venkata Ramana, a Judge of...

PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad High Court has observed that though the Indian Constitution gives every citizen the right to freely follow and...

NEW DELHI: Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai was on Wednesday sworn in as the 52nd Chief Justice of India. He was administered the oath...