Governance and Policy

Governance and Policy

Fixing India’s electoral rolls
Between hope and anxiety: Indian electorate at the margins
“Maximum inclusion, minimum exclusion”: Adult suffrage and enfranchisement at a crossroads in India at 79
The constitutional demand at the heart of voter fraud allegations
Demolish, delete, deport: Bulldozing workers’ suffrage
Demolish, then disenfranchise: Urban planning as the new instrument of political engineering
Supreme Court directs ECI to publish list of 65 lakh omitted voters, accept Aadhar as ID proof: Three days of hearings overviewed
Supreme Court seeks Election Commission’s reply on ADR plea over details of 65 Lakh omitted voters in Bihar’s SIR
Tamil Nadu moves Supreme Court against Madras HC order restraining use of living persons’ names, ex-CMs’ photos in government scheme ads
The great electoral purge: Why the SC must strike down Bihar’s voter verification drive
Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals system lacks a secure legal foundation, is vulnerable to executive interference: NLSIU and QMUL report claims
When public outcry fills the gaps justice leaves behind
Supreme Court asks Parliament to review whether Speakers should decide defection cases under the anti-defection law
The Vikas Barala case raised larger questions on how we appoint our law officers and what constitutional ethos demands
SC fixes Presidential Reference hearing from August 19, to first hear Tamil Nadu and Kerala on maintainability
Bihar electoral rolls: SC to hear challenge to ECI’s SIR exercise on August 12 and 13
“10 of 11 voter ID documents can be forged, include Aadhaar and EPIC,” SC tells ECI to focus on mass inclusion, not exclusion
Explainer: How Vice President Dhankar’s resignation has opened the lens to a constitutional ambiguity
‘More than 97 percent ‘untouchability’ cases remain pending, majority result in acquittal’, claims Social Justice Ministry’s data
Free speech in the age of war
The Muslim electorate at margins in Bihar
On the voter list revision in Bihar, has the ECI forgotten its duty?
How to revisit the human angle in data driven space governance
SC refuses to halt Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision, presses ECI to “consider” Aadhar, EPIC, ration cards too
Eights years on, the structurally flawed GST has failed to achieve its goals
What does the Indian Constitution truly ask of its citizens when it speaks of scientific temper?
What Karnataka’s bike taxi ban can learn from Brazil’s struggles over gig work
Innovative consent-based data processing can change the way we look at the user-experience versus compliance debate
The Indian State’s expanding sovereign power has everything to do with the incline of digital governance
Editorial: We released the Justice Varma probe report. The real question is what must follow now?
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