New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- The Election Commission of India has a paradoxical constitutional task. It must make the rules and procedures of elections sufficiently certain that the outcome remains genuinely ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- In 1998, the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was fighting extradition from Britain to Spain, where proceedings had been initiated against him over allegations of tortur... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- Between April 6 and September 7, 2026, Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar sentenced 23 people to death in Muzaffarnagar. He had imposed death sentences on... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- When the Supreme Court recast the judicial appointments system in 1993, it warned that keeping High Courts under acting Chief Justices for long periods "must be deprecated and av... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- "The form of the administration must be appropriate to the form of the Constitution." When the Supreme Court invoked B.R. Ambedkar's warning at the end of its November 2025 judg... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Until 1961, a law graduate in India entered the profession at the pleasure of a High Court. Enrolment, discipline, and removal from the rolls were judicial functions. The Indian ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- In March 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt went on American radio to explain why he wanted to enlarge the United States Supreme Court. He described constitutional government as a "three... Read More
New Delhi, July 28 -- On July 24, the Supreme Court placed the record of its own hearings behind a permission counter. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana is... Read More
New Delhi, July 20 -- In 1768, the English writer Laurence Sterne published a travel book called A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. In one scene the narrator, a clergyman named Yorick, is... Read More