Delhi: On 24 February 2024, the ministry of home affairs announced that the three new criminal laws—Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023 and the Bharatiya ...

Has anything changed from the British Raj to now? The answer, certainly in the proposed Clause 150 meant to replace Section 124A, or sedition, is an unambiguous no. It proposes that the government and ...

Curbs on the meat trade—from infrastructure requirements to a flood of paperwork—tightened cow-slaughter laws, vigilante attacks and arrests, including under the draconian National Security Act, have ...

A month after a three-train wreck in Balasore, Odisha, killed over 290 people on 2 June, 52 bodies are yet to be identified. As mostly low-income families wait in Bhubaneswar for the result of DNA ...

Changing laws is Parliament's jurisdiction, not the court’s, which cannot become a ‘super legislature’, the union government argues as the Supreme Court of India seems to agree, as it hears 20 ...

Bengaluru: “Where such rites and ceremonies include the Saptapadi (that is, the taking of seven steps by the bridegroom and the bride jointly before the sacred fire), the marriage becomes complete and ...

For 151 years, Indians expressing their right to free speech and expression have faced the prospect of being accused of sedition: ‘showing disaffection’ towards the State under section 124A of the ...

The Delhi police accused protesting students of terorrism but refused to treat violence-inciting hate speeches of ruling party leaders as even culpable criminal acts. More than a century after the ...

New Delhi: Political power in India has been monopolised, and one aspect of this monopoly is its anti-Muslim nature, Sharjeel Imam, 33, a political dissident who has been imprisoned without trial for ...

The death of a 22-year-old in Kerala after spousal abuse reveals how domestic violence—99% of cases which go unreported and reached unprecedented levels during the pandemic—is ignored. India’s focus ...

The Niti Aayog wants to review the economic impacts of Supreme Court rulings on environmental-law violations. Its officials are supposedly not investigating ‘judicial activism’. Files we obtained ...

Change Of Land Use. On 17 October 2017, the ministry of housing and urban affairs under section 11 (A) of the Delhi Development Act (DDA), 1957, issued a notification towards making modifications to ...