In the heat of election season, the Congress Party has called for Nalsar Hyderabad to institute 85% local resident reservation quotas, accusing the national law school of a “Blatant & Deliberate Violation Of Law Of Land” (sic) and “Causing Gross Injustice towards Sons of Soil, i.e., LOCAL Students of Telangana in General and Backward Class Students in particular” (sic).

Even as the two rival national political parties played April Fool of their actual political rivalries on 1 April by appealing together in the Supreme Court, a common judgment passed against them by the Delhi high court, The Wire has exposed a little-known fact, which promises to excel the incredible phenomenon of these two rival parties coming together on a common platform to fight a common enemy.

The BJP and the Congress today both found defending themselves as appellants in a case before the Supreme Court, which is likely to hear it in detail after the summer vacation.

The ousted Congress government in Uttarakhand got a major reprieve today after the state high court allowed it to prove its majority in the assembly on Thursday despite President’s Rule in the hill state. A stunned central government, which in a dramatic turn of events on Sunday dismissed the Congre...

The Congress’ Maharashtra unit Wednesday moved Bombay high court challenging the constitutional validity of the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government and seeking its dismissal. Former minister M Naseem Khan filed a writ petition before the court questioning the constitutional validity of the nearly m...

A blog by former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, who is now Press Council of India (PCI) chairman, has caused a “ruckus” in both houses of parliament, according to the DNA and the PTI . Katju had written in his blog that the tenure of an additional judge in the Madras high court had been exte...

Despite the BCI chairman’s recent ringing personal but apparently representative endorsement of Narendra Modi, lawyers will have to make their own choice this election. LI tries to help.

The TOI interviews an apparently very down-to-earth Prashant R Deshpande, son of Tourism Minister RV Deshpande and NLSIU Bangalore and Harvard Law School alumnus, following the 36-year-old’s Congress Lok Sabha nomination yesterday [TOI]

With Lok Sabha elections now scheduled to start on 7 April it is fair to ask: what has the current government done for India’s legal profession? And can any of the others do better?