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Small student bodies and skeletal faculties are governed by Vice Chancellors wielding powers built for universities many times their size, while Chief Justices sit as Chancellors over institutions whose disputes eventually reach their own courtrooms.

The Collegium has criticised the Centre for delaying appointments and departing from procedure, yet its own record on both counts is no better.

Maharashtras new anti-conversion law seeks to prevent coercion and fraud, but its broad regulatory framework risks placing prayer, religious association and freedom of conscience under a cloud of suspicion.

ON THE NEW YEAR OF 2019, from the northern tip of Kerala to the southern end of Kerala stretching over 620 kilometres, half a million women of Kerala stood holding their hands as a human chain which was described as Mahila Mathilugal (womens wall) demanding gender equality which also wanted access to the Sabarimala temple to worship the Lord Ayyappa who is adorning the temple. It was stated that the women during their menstruation cycle are not allowed to enter Sabarimala because it is conside

A Janmashtami display describing the Shudras role as serving higher classes has reignited the fight over the Supreme Courts stay on UGCs 2026 equity regulations.

The nine-judge bench in Jai Bir Singh spent pages saying what industry is not, leaving open the definition Justice Krishna Iyer settled in 1978 and extending a dispute that has already run through decades of industrial adjudication.

In quashing the NSA order against student activist Akriti Chaudhary and censuring the officials responsible, the Allahabad High Court reaffirmed that civil servants owe their allegiance to the Constitution, not to political masters, echoing the founding vision of Sardar Patel and Ambedkar on the character of Indias civil services.

A Division Bench found the grounds for detaining student activist Akriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act to be speculative and evidence-free, noting the arrest date itself appeared fabricated, and directed the compensation be recovered from the salaries of the District Magistrate and other officers involved.

In Pannalal Bhansali v. Bharti Telecom Ltd., the Supreme Court held that a company can selectively extinguish minority shareholders capital under Section 66 of the Companies Act, provided the valuation is fair. It settled, for the first time, the legality of using Section 66 as a squeeze-out mechanism.

As the Supreme Courts Sabarimala Reference judgment remains reserved, the Solicitor Generals argument that constitutional morality is merely a sentiment threatens to unravel what grounded queer and transgender rights in Navtej Singh Johar, decided eight years ago today.

The appointments, made on Collegium recommendations, include Justice Sanjay K. Agarwal as Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court amid the ongoing controversy over Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, and bring the number of High Courts headed by judges from the Allahabad High Court to five.

SCs observations flagging multiple illegalities committed by BCI chief Manan Mishra against NALSAR students signal his transgressions of the Constitution and constitutional morality