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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicIndian law

Topic: Indian law

Winners’ remorse in Indian litigation—2 ways to resolve execution delays

A 19th-century system that forces the winner of a litigation to run from pillar to post to enforce a hard-won decree, poses an existential question for the judiciary.

Luxury cars, big deals & 6-figure fees, evolution of the boardroom lawyer in India

New Delhi: On one Saturday in April, BJP leader Naveen Jindal posted a video on X that immediately went viral. It showed a Mercedes, a...

Nehru’s amendment to the Constitution was a revolution. Made sedition an invalid law

Speaking at the launch of his book on freedom of speech, SC lawyer Rohan J Alva stressed that the reasonable restrictions in Article 19 (1)(a) is different from sedition.

New book exalts democracy & Constitution through lawyer K.G. Kannabiran’s courtwalks

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law,’ by K.G. Kannabiran, translated by Kalpana Kannabiran will be released on 16 December on ThePrint’s Softcover.

Deepika, Rhea ‘drugs probe’ to Delhi riots — what law says on WhatsApp chats as evidence

Investigators have used WhatsApp chats as evidence to question suspects in NCB-Bollywood drug case that has seen Deepika Padukone's name emerge, as well as in the Delhi riots case. 

In a rush to pass bills, 17th Lok Sabha is not scrutinising future laws enough

Narendra Modi government intends to get Parliament’s approval on 40 bills before the two houses adjourn on 26 July.

Restricting surrogacy to relatives won’t work, doctors say as bill is tabled in Lok Sabha

The bill aims to ban ‘commercial’ surrogacy, or paying a woman to carry a baby for 9 months, and restrict the practice to blood relatives.

On SC plate after break, ‘conspiracy’ in CJI case, NRC update & a power tussle in the South

The Supreme Court, resuming duties after its summer vacation, will also hear steps taken by Bihar to tackle the Encephalitis deaths.

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India-US trade deal to be signed after Trump administration decides new global ‘tariff architecture’

New Delhi is examining the legal implications of the latest set of American investigations into Indian exports under Section 301(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, it is learnt.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.