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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
TopicRight to property

Topic: right to property

SC pushes for digital overhaul of India’s ‘traumatic’ land registration system — ‘from paper to blockchain’

While hearing a property registration dispute in Bihar, SC asks why sale and purchase of property in India remain so complex and unreliable.

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

What Hindu Succession Act says about women’s property rights & why a larger SC bench will look into it

A 2-judge Supreme Court bench noted that larger benches have differently interpreted Section 14 of 1956 Hindu Succession Act while emphasising the need for settling the question of law.

Watch CuttheClutter: How the Socialist state took right to property & new SC order starts a correction

In Episode 1550 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta traces the evolution of property rights under Article 39(b) of the Constitution.

‘Law for acquiring property must include procedural safeguards’: SC on right to property

SC examines contours of Article 300A , which empowers state to deprive a person of property through law. Bench says absence of procedure or failure to comply would invalidate acquisition.

‘This has to go’: Tribal women in Himachal’s Kinnaur pin hopes on Murmu to scrap century-old law

Despite the SC judgment that women have equal rights in inheritance, women in Kinnaur fail to get their due and are waiting to narrate their ordeal to country’s first tribal President on 18 April.

On Camera

US invasion of Venezuela is end of international order. India must focus on cold calculations

Trump’s action in Venezuela is likely to raise questions about the choices that US allies and partners face today, putting even greater stress on the international order.

Underlining sluggish exports, NITI Aayog flags need to jump-start India’s automotive market

Govt think tank flags India’s skewed auto export mix, warns domestic focus and high tariffs are limiting its global footprint; also highlights how auto components are a bright spot.

S-300, Su-30 jets, T-72 tanks: Inventory of Venezuela’s largely Russian-origin arsenal

Venezuela also boasts of a diverse portfolio of unmanned aerial vehicles capable of carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance and being employed for kinetic purposes as well.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.