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Introduction The Indian Judicial system, as we know today incorporates the Supreme Court, high courts, and various other subordinate judiciaries. It began functioning on January 28, 1950. Since then, our judicial system has been able to prove itself as the nation’s moral conscience, upholding the rights of all citizens irrespective of their class, gender, status, [...]

Joe Biden doesn’t deserve due process and the presumption of innocence with respect to Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation. Brett Kavanaugh didn’t deserve them with respect to Christine Blasey Ford either. Why? Neither is facing a criminal prosecution — no one has threatened to take their liberty away. The #MeToo movement has inspired people across [...]

Introduction COVID-19, which has brought human life to a standstill across the globe, is not a climate-change pandemic. The worldwide increase of infectious disease is the result of a changed human lifestyle that has consequently altered the biological ecosystem. The spread of infectious agents because of climate conditions was discovered in the later part of [...]

Under Article 1 of the Convention on the Rights of Child, a “child” is defined as a human being below the age of 18 years old and, in legal parlance, a child is referred to as a minor. A study by UNICEF found that 1 out of 3 girls and 1 out of 5 boys [...]

“There is a view point that post retirement appointment is itself a scar on the judicial independence of the Judiciary. In fact this is valid and strong point.” – former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi This was the obiter dicta of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi while hearing 18 petitions related to challenges to [...]

The spread of COVID-19 infection cases has accelerated with fervid intensity over the past few weeks, with the tally of infections reported by the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) at a whopping 4,254,302 cases (as of May 12, 2020). India itself, battling with an infection rate doubling every [...]

The Coronavirus is causing major economic upheavals and thousands of deaths and hospitalizations throughout the US. Unfortunately, immigrants, people of color, and marginalized groups are being hit equally hard by the disease. To make matters even worse, refugee admissions are suspended, all in-person naturalization services have stopped, and the status of all immigration into the [...]

“It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks.” In the wake of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the Supreme Court of India passed an order to release all the detainees who have completed two years in detention centres in Assam upon furnishing a [...]

There is a pertinent need to find a balance between free speech and the impact of fake news on a citizen’s safety. Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) recently stated that world governments are fighting a battle on two fronts, Covid-19 and the large influx of information regarding the pandemic which have been called ‘infodemics’ [...]

“What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations From the beginning, Donald Trump’s ideology of “America First” has been misconceived. In essence, any concocted presidential notion that exploitative and self-aggrandizing American postures can propel the United States in gainful directions is grievously fanciful. Looked at somewhat differently, [...]