This nine-judge Bench for the first time engaged in an intense debate with legal scholars and prominent lawyers on whether or not privacy is a fundamental right in the Constitution.
November 15, 2019The three judge bench asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to provide clarity on Centre's plan of imposing unprecedented restrictions in the Valley.
October 24, 2019Amid rising cases of mob-lynching and culprits roaming free with impunity, Alice Wells reminded India that its Constitution mandates a secular state that upholds the rights of all citizens to practice religion freely, freedom of expression and speech, and equal treatment before the law.
October 22, 2019According to government sources, hundreds remain in detention - many without charges, under the draconian Public Safety Act, which allows for administrative detention of up to two years.
October 22, 2019Jinping is on a two-day visit to Chennai for the second India-China Informal Summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mahabalipuram.
October 11, 2019US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has previously called China’s treatment of Uighurs one of the 'worst stains on the world' and likened the camps to actions by Nazi Germany.
October 9, 2019US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that China has 'forcibly detained over one million Muslims in a brutal, systematic campaign to erase religion and culture in Xinjiang'.
October 9, 2019Last month two members of the US House of Representatives also wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to take notice of the communication blackout in Kashmir.
October 9, 2019Since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5 many citizens including 144 children as young as 9, and local leaders have been detained under 'preventative detention.'
October 4, 2019The Rajasthan Chief Minister said India earned global respect because its governments have always tried to strengthen the democracy.
September 15, 2019The comment comes weeks after a Pakistani minister had reportedly predicted a 'full-blown war between Pakistan and India likely to occur in the month of October or November'.
September 13, 2019On reports of Pakistan denying India a second consular access to jailed Kulbhushan Jadhav, Raveesh Kumar said that India will keep trying to see that the ICJ judgement is fully implemented.
September 12, 2019The Baloch activist minced no words in stating that Pakistan is also a 'threat for the world as it is a rogue state and there is no law or justice'.
September 12, 2019Meanwhile, India is expected to assert its well-articulated position that restrictions were imposed to save human lives and cite the record that not a single civilian has died there in the last one month in any police action.
September 10, 2019Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lashed out at the Congress leader saying that his statements help Pakistan more than India.
September 10, 2019Pakistan has been desperate since the Centre decided to abolish the special status of Jammu and Kashmir granted under Article 370 of the Constitution.
September 10, 2019The Indian government has affirmed that restrictions in Kashmir are aimed at preventing Pakistan from creating trouble through proxies and terrorists.
September 9, 2019