India’s criminal justice system currently has more than 434,302 undertrial prisoners—women and men who have yet to be ...

The Air India Flight AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, was tragic. The unfortunate event not only plunged the ...

An internal investigation ordered by Pernod Ricard concluded that top executives at its India business violated the law by colluding with alcohol retailers in New Delhi, according to a document ...

Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced on Friday that nations like Bangladesh, South Africa, and the Maldives are interested in India's Mission Karmayogi. The program aims to enhance civil servant ...

With India's elderly population projected to reach 35 crore by 2050—making up nearly one-fifth of the total population—the ...

Aijaz Rahi/AP "The court is to balance civil liberty and sovereignty of the state. This is a difficult exercise," said N. V. Ramanna, Chief Justice of India, as he ordered the stay on the law.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has promised to replace existing religion-based civil codes with a common law to govern marriage, adoption, divorce and inheritance norms for ...

The Law Commission of India (LCI)’s recent report recommending retention of India’s sedition law covered by Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and providing for further expansion of ...

Members of Jamiat Ulama-i-Maharashtra listen to the speech of their leader during protest gathering against a uniform civil code law in India, in Mumbai, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016.

India does not have a large-scale refugee problem; the intended effect of the law was to destabilize Muslim citizenship in a country where most Indians have weak documentation.

On May 11, 2022, the Supreme Court of India (SC) passed a landmark order to put the sedition law in abeyance for the first time ever since India’s independence. This would suspend it until its ...

African Journal of Gender and Religion, Vol. 28, No. 2 (December 2022), pp. 1-28 (28 pages) In India, Hindu family law is often touted as a progressive and gender-just law that ought to be emulated ...