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Beyond Biology: What the Supreme Court’s Adoptive-Mother Maternity Ruling Means for Indian Labour Law
The Supreme Court removed the three-month age cap on maternity benefit for adoptive mothers. The judgment recasts the benefit around caregiving, not biology.
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The Quiet Revolution: How India Learned to Call Privacy a Right
The 2017 Puttaswamy judgment gave privacy constitutional status. The harder question is whether India's data-protection law can live up to it.
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A Two-Decade-Old Conviction, a Forgotten Birth Certificate, and the Limits of “Final”
What happens when a criminal case is considered over, but the person convicted was actually a child when the offence took place?
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From Kerala to Keralam: Inside Article 3 and the Constitutional Machinery of Renaming a State
What a one-word change reveals about Parliament's power, state consultation and the federal balance.
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One Year at the Bar, Two Years Before the Bench: Has the Supreme Court Reimagined Judicial Experience?
The Court's new model combines one year of District Court practice with Judicial Academy training and a structured clerkship before regular judicial service.
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When the State Watches You: AI Surveillance & Constitutional Privacy
Constitutional privacy was built for searches and warrants. India has quietly moved into a world of continuous, automated watching without fully updating the law to match.
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Surgery or Autopsy? The Supreme Court's Arbitral Scalpel
It is the ultimate legal showdown: does this rescue people from endless litigation loops, or has the court opened the floodgates for judges to rewrite private contracts?
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