Images of countless migrant workers either painfully trekking back to their villages of origin often with children in tow, or ...

The following is the full text of the Brief issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, ...

The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the ...

Nearly 60 years after it was passed, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) remains a piece of legislation that evokes ...

On February 16, 2018, a three-member Bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, delivered its ...

"There is no evidence on the record produced before the Court indicating any criminality in the acts allegedly committed by ...

The Supreme Court of India, on August 22, 2017, set aside the practice of Talaq-e-Biddat (triple talaq). An excerpt from the ...

In the year 2015, over one-thirds of deaths in India were caused by heart diseases, including diseases of pulmonary circulation ...

Since 1983, the Supreme Court has been using the "shock to the conscience of the society" as a ground for imposition of ...

The Union government’s contention in the Supreme Court, in defence of the Aadhaar Act, that India’s citizens lack a fundamental ...

On February 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on one of India's most high-profile corruption cases in ...

Ruling in favour of a Tamil author, Perumal Murugan, the Madras High Court, on July 5, 2016, dismissed petitions which included ...

At a time when the need for and effectiveness of a Common Entrance Test (CET) to professional colleges is debated across the ...

Scholars have analysed bonded labour in South Asia as a result of poverty, social exclusion, and the failure of state mechanism to ...

The responsibility of the Supreme Court of India in upholding fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution is unparalleled.

This Report traces the narratives of inclusion and exclusion of Dalit forest-dwelling communities in the process of formulating ...

This report examines transitional justice in Kashmir from the perspective of a unique category of women. The insurgency in Kashmir ...

This Report is an exploratory work seeking to answer the question ‘What enables reporting of rape in India?’ Under-reporting of ...

On December 2, 2015, a five-Judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India rejected the proposal by the Government of ...

An effective legal framework for insolvency that gives both entrepreneurs and creditors confidence that the path for exit is ...

The Law Commission of India in its report on The Death Penalty has recommended that "the death penalty be abolished for all ...

Any attempt to eradicate to child labour must recognise the complexity of the issue and must address the range of direct and ...

The recent approval by the Union Cabinet to a set of amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (CLPR), ...

On May 11, 2015, the Karnataka High Court set aside a trial court's order convicting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa, ...

The Supreme Court of India is the foremost guardian of fundamental rights and the spirit of the Constitution. While a lot of ...

An analysis of candidate data compiled by the Association for Democratic Reform shows the degree to which criminalisation has ...

These are times when the controversies surrounding cricket are more in the headlines than the score. Last year’s Indian Premier ...

The right to free speech and expression also includes the right for people to be exposed to differing points of view. Book purges ...

Rights may be self-evident and constitutionally secured; however, they do not automatically implement themselves.

Citizens’ protests in the last few years signal a consensus among all segments of society that the "rules of the game" ...

There is much evidence, not only from India, of the link between political authority and its capacity to arouse ethnic tensions, ...

Sexual crimes committed by men tend to be explained away as ‘mistakes’ in India. This defence infantilises the actions of an adult ...

On September 21st, 2013, The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy organised a consultation in Hyderabad, "Dealing with ...

In the wake of the recent riots in Muzaffarnagar, Tanweer Fazal analyses the surge in communal violence in Uttar Pradesh. In ...

The special fast track court set up to try "Nirbhaya’s" rapists has handed over a problematic verdict, says The Hindu ...

Nikhil Moro, Ph.D., a Public Policy Scholar with The Hindu Centre, argues that it is vital to incorporate policy studies into the ...

In the context of the raging controversy over the Indian Premier League betting and match-fixing episodes, there has been ...

Maoists are becoming less adventurous in their operational strategies, increasingly relying on joining popular protests against ...

Post December 2012, the exclusive focus on legal reform in relation to sexual offences has led to some controversial options being ...

The Justice Verma Committee report acts as a blueprint for the radical transformation of gender relations within the framework of ...