Tanishka Shah

The MASA-led workers' protest at Jantar Mantar highlighted fears that the new Labour Codes dilute workplace safeguards and weaken the constitutional architecture of labour rights in India.

As courts move away from insulating personal laws, Assam’s new law brings long-standing tensions between personal law, gender justice, and fundamental rights back into sharp focus.

With a batch of petitions seeking to answer whether Rohingyas are refugees, and a habeas corpus enquiring about the custodial disappearance of five people in May, the Court in January must address crucial issues on the fate of the world’s most persecuted minority in India.

The Supreme Court’s adoption of an elevation-based definition for the Aravallis may bring regulatory uniformity, but weakens environmental protection for one of India’s most fragile ecological systems.

The signatories of the open letter, which included the likes of the former High Court judges Justices A.P. Shah, K. Chandru and Anjana Prakash cautioned that this style of reasoning erases the lived reality of the world’s most persecuted minority.

While denying protection under the SC/ST Act to a Christian pastor, the Court noted that Scheduled Caste status is lost after conversion, a ruling that leaves millions of Dalit Christian and Muslims without remedy.

A nine-judge bench, by majority, has refined but not overturned the triple test in Bangalore Water Supply for what counts as an ‘industry’ under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Fifty signatories, including activists, lawyers and researchers, have urged the ECI to fix the Special Intensive Revision’s patriarchal documentation norms, warning that women, transgender persons and minority communities are being disproportionately struck off electoral rolls.

Three convocations and a memorial lecture involving CJI Surya Kant have been postponed, declined, or contested in as many weeks, as student anger over his remarks on police brutality against protestors continues to build.

A day after Justice Mini Pushkarna declined to grant similar interim relief, doctors testified that the activist, showing low parameters, needs only continuous monitoring.

Women’s reservation is the headline. But behind the special session’s centrepiece, lies a sweeping restructuring of electoral boundaries and parliamentary seats that could redraw India’s political map – and who gets to draw it.

In its response to The Leaflet, TNNLU’s Registrar stated that the VC’s remarks were misunderstood due to language, even as faculty told students that the remarks were made as 'fatherly figure'. Meanwhile, students demand a student council and POSH policy.