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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicConstitutional rights

Topic: Constitutional rights

‘Need to engage with Constitution, not worship it’ — Arghya Sengupta on ‘The Colonial Constitution’

Arghya Sengupta, founder of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, discussed his book with Fali S. Nariman & Shekhar Gupta, said it's a call to think about new constitutional ideas for India.

Constitutional or just statutory? Your right to vote & why its status is contested

In a judgment Monday, SC said it was paradoxical that democracy is a basic feature of the Constitution, but the right to vote is not a fundamental right.

Mumbai’s Government Law College wins grand finale of ConQuest 2020

The preliminary rounds of the quiz had more than 600 students from colleges across India participating, after which were four knockout rounds. Eight teams made it to the finale.

When creativity dies, values of civilisation corrode: CJI Dipak Misra

Full text of M.C. Setalvad Memorial lecture delivered by CJI Misra in New Delhi.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.