Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar on January 11 questioned the legitimacy of the basic structure doctrine, an unwritten rule that Parliament cannot amend certain features of the Constitution. Dhankar ...

April 29 should be celebrated as ‘People’s Day’ every year. In my view, the date April 29, 1973 is right next to January 26, 1950, which was marked as the first Republic Day, in terms of significance ...

During the past year I have received a number of requests from structural firefighters to write an article about basic wildland fire safety. Last year was a particularly deadly one for some structural ...

New Delhi: Following Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar’s remark criticising the basic structure doctrine, the Chief Justice of India DY Chardachud hailed the doctrine and called it a North Star that ...

SOUTH Asia has been greatly remiss in not acknowledging its debt to a jurist who single-handedly inspired a revolution in constitutional law. He was Prof Dietrich Conrad, head of the law department at ...

The Basic Structure Doctrine should balance its ambit concerning the powers of Parliament, as it is the biggest forum of representative democracy This year in April, we celebrated the 50th anniversary ...