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Monday, April 13, 2026
TopicConstitutional rights

Topic: Constitutional rights

Rajasthan HC flags Transgender Bill as ‘departure’ from Constitution. What it said on gender rights

Rule of law requires that legislative and executive frameworks must align with constitutional values and not merely procedural legality, a division bench asserts.

SubscriberWrites: When the Constitution speaks, why ask again?

A Presidential Reference seeks clarity where none is needed—risking constitutional certainty for political ambiguity.

‘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

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.