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I have read the statement of Mr. Jiti Ogunye titled Courting Electoral Crime in the Name of God and made available to and as widely reported by the social

The issue of amendable and non-amendable clauses of the constitution is a tower of babel. Worldwide and even locally no one seems to agree on what it is and if it can be applied. 

The Chief Justice agreed with the High Court and Court of Appeal on two out of the seven issues raised.

The Building Bridges Initiative(BBI) ruling that everybody was eagerly waiting for has received final deliberations from Justice Koome.

The Judges were ruling on seven contentious issues that had been raised by the petitioners.

Aluochier argues that the 2010 Kenya Constitution is supreme and no one is above it.

In its counter-affidavit, the Centre has questioned the plea of the petitioners that the Act is unconstitutional because it violates the basic structure doctrine.

Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee passes away Updated: Updated: April 30, 2021 11:31 IST He appeared in several historic cases, including the Kesavananda Bharati case or the Basic Structure Doctrine case. Share Article AAA Soli Sorabjee, former Attorney General of India, speaks during a interview with The Hindu at his residence in New Delhi on August 22, 2020.   | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma He appeared in several historic cases, including the Kesavananda Bharati case or th...

The major news headlines of the day, and more. A Special Bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud, L. Nageswara Rao and S. Ravindra Bhat said any move by any State to punish citizens who take to the social media to seek help for oxygen cylinders, COVID-19 drugs, beds, hospitalisation, etc, amid a rampaging second wave would attract contempt of court action. Several States including Delhi, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have deferred the third phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive, which is scheduled to be...

  |  A+A A- Rahul Gandhi, the former president of the Congress and a key member of the Nehru-Gandhi family that owns and controls that party, has belatedly acknowledged that the imposition of the dreaded Emergency by PM Indira Gandhi in the mid-1970s was “a mistake”. This grudging and half-hearted attempt to face the truth is unlikely to wash away the monstrous impact of the Emergency or the sins that are associated with it. Some observations made by Rahul in a recent interaction with...