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Last August, the Hindustan Times reported that during the deliberations of the Supreme Court Collegium on the proposed elevation of Justice V.M. Pancholi, then Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, Justice B.V. Nagarathna, the lone woman judge in the Court at the time, had submitted a dissenting note arguing against his elevation. The reason? Not only was there a non-routine tr...

India’s recent clampdown on protesting workers evidences the slow criminalisation of the right to strike. Could a new decision of the International Court of Justice be a powerful instrument in the hands of lawyers and workers to push for legislative and constitutional reform in the country?

A decade after Section 245 came into force, the NCLT has admitted what may be India’s first major shareholder class action.

As sycophantic AI systems blur the line between assistance and manipulation, regulators and courts should determine whether flattery by design constitutes deception by law.

In the May edition of ‘Staying Alive’, Hasina Khan, of the Bebaak Collective, traces how the PWDVA became a crucial tool for Muslim women navigating divorce threats, for young adults facing family control, and why its steady erosion by State neglect and hostile legislation demands urgent attention.