This budget with all the hype about Rs 7.5 trillion capex has simply ignored the poor.

The conduct of police forces over the past few months raises many questions.

Can a special investigative team or a bureaucratic multi-agency group bring back a single dollar?

CJI N.V. Ramana's praise for the 1975 Allahabad high court which unseated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is deserved but also reflects the general malaise that has set in today.

It is not true that the court altered or read down the terror law or went beyond the ambit of the petition. In fact, the court disposed of the appeal with complete mastery.

His kindness and concern for India had shined through during a key case in 1993.

Despite the fact that the parliament is not empowered by the constitution to enact major changes in the agriculture sector, the Modi government has twisted rules, foraying into states' ambit, to pass the contentious farm bills.

The executive is shifting every contentious policy issue to the court.

Whether it was demonetisation, GST implementation or the national lockdown, the prime minister and his advisors could have ensured compliance with minimum dislocation if these decisions had been taken with planning foresight.

The Supreme Court had a larger national and international panoramic picture in mind while issuing the interim direction on April 8.

Some easy financial maneuvering would allow us to enhance the relief package's size by up to $80 billion.

The increase in the interest burden on the Centre's borrowings for the coming year has been budgeted at Rs 90,000 crore, against an increase of Rs 52,000 crore last year.

The vice president said the petitioners ought to have proved their allegations – but the constitution says differently.

Custodial interrogation – through which investigators seek to extract a self-incriminatory statement from an accused person – is illegal and amounts to capricious misuse of state authority.

If the rupee’s purchasing power has dipped from 19.77 yen in 1985 to 1.72 yen today, then after 50 years can a rupee buy anything more than just a fraction of a yen?

It is not the CBI’s business to decide interest rates for loan settlement or set any banking benchmarks, especially if the RBI and Centre have had nothing to say on the matter.