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The Constitution of India was amended in the year 2002 to make the right to education for children, in the age group of six to fourteen years, a fundamental right.

In the recent past, many States like Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka and Telangana have passed laws mandating employers in the private sector to ...

The primary objective of foreign investment could not have been more aptly defined than by Dr. Jaslin U. Salmon, National Coordinator, Poverty Eradication Programme, Jamaica; when he stated, "Foreign investment must empower the poor".

The Supreme Court further stated that the provision for CCL is a constitutionally mandated right for women employees under Article 15 of the Constitution of India.

Amidst a society of humans what humans often forget to do is to behave humanly. We as human being the most powerful species living are the ones to decide that sentience and a legal personality should only be our right.

In a case that lays bare not just legal questions but also the daily indignities faced by Dalit communities, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently passed a powerful order in Thirumalaisamy v. State of Tamil Nadu.

The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026 decriminalises numerous minor offences across central laws and introduces civil penalties and administrative adjudication mechanisms. This article analyses the key enforcement priorities and implementation challenges for regulatory bodies, inspectors, and district-level administrators to ensure effective transition from criminal prosecution to compliance-oriented governance.

The question of whether an improper or irregular arrest automatically entitles an accused to bail has been the subject of considerable judicial scrutiny.

Novelty is one of the basic criteria of patentability, inventiveness and industrial applicability being the other two. If the use of a substance or a composition for a specified medical purpose is new, a claim in a patent application directed at this use will be considered as novel even if the same substance had previously been used in medicine for a different purpose.

In a remarkable move towards fostering trust-based governance and simplifying the business environment, the Indian Parliament passed the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2023 on August 2, 2023.

The Gujarat High Court examined whether a person born abroad to Indian parents, who returned to India as an infant under emergency circumstances and never acquired foreign nationality, could claim an Indian passport without fulfilling the mandatory consular registration requirement for citizenship by descent. The case raises critical questions about the interplay between statutory citizenship requirements and humanitarian circumstances, particularly when an individual has lived their entire life in India bu

In a batch of writ petitions, a Division Bench of the Hon'ble Bombay High Court in Javed Abdul Rahim vs. Maharashtra Housing Development Authority, was called upon to examine the legality of several notices issued under Section 79A of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 ("MHADA Act") by Executive Engineers of MHADA.

The recent judgment in Suryadev Pathak vs. Union of India before the Allahabad High Court presents a significant exposition on the jurisdictional limitations of constitutional courts when statutory...

In a writ petition propelled by the constitutional ideal of substantive equality, the Supreme Court of India has translated the parchment promise of Articles...

On the heels of the Madras High Court verdict in D Siluvai Venance v State which sought to address the regulatory void in the online and virtual gaming space, the Gujarat High Court has pursuant to its judgment in the case ...

The Hon'ble Supreme Court ("SC") in a recent judgement of Ajay Singh v. Khacheru and Ors. held that the Hon'ble High Courts should not reappreciate evidence...

The Jharkhand High Court has delivered a landmark judgment addressing the State's two-decade failure to operationalize the statutory office of the Adjudicating Officer under the Information Technology Act, 2000.

The Karnataka Real Estate Appellate Tribunal, in its judgment dated March 26, 2026, in Alekhya Property Developments Pvt. Ltd. v. Resmi Maream Vergis and Others [(2026) ibclaw.in 159 REAT], Appeal No. (K-REAT)...