This blog has debated pending Bills on many occasions. A recent post on the Accountability Initiative blog discusses the importance of pre-legislative scrutiny and a major recent civil society effort...
Justice Gyan Sudha Misra’s declaration of assets is available here. The Supreme Court judge has been criticized for listing “Two daughters to be married” under the heading...
On Friday, December 24, 2010, a trial court in Chhattisgarh found Dr. Binayak Sen and two others guilty of criminal conspiracy to commit sedition under Section 124(a) read with Section 20 (b) of the...
The Law and Technology Committee (elTek) of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is hosting ‘Consilience’, a conference where contemporary issues of critical relevance in the field...
The Rajya Sabha Select Committee on the Torture Bill has recommended significant amendments to the Prevention of Torture Bill passed by the Lok Sabha. These recommendations include widening the...
The current issue of the Economic and Political Weekly carries a special section of articles on the Ayodhya judgment. Anupam Gupta, one of the counsel who appeared before the Lieberhan Commission...
Devesh Kapur, who directs the Centre for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, has just published a new book: Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of...
A recent story in the Mint exposes a questionable letter from the US Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke to his Indian counterpart, Anand Sharma, the Hon’ble Minister of Commerce. I extract the...