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About the AuthorK N Bhat
The writer is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court and former additional solicitor-general of India. He can be reached at knbhat1@gmail.com
    Students of Nizamia Tibbi (Unani) College boycott classes in protest against putting effect the controversial amendments in the Citizenship Act in the city on Wednesday.Opinion
    New law on citizenship is legally quite sound

    On becoming a citizen of a State, the subject becomes entitled to all the protections and privileges available under the...

    18 Dec 2019 11:36 PM

    Ram: A legal legend, a maestro in court and teacher extraordinaireOpinion
    Ram: A legal legend, a maestro in court and teacher extraordinaire

    For him, the rule of the road was once an enemy, always an enemy.

    12 Sept 2019 2:24 AM

    Centre is on sound legal footingOpinion
    Centre is on sound legal footing

    The Constitution guarantees citizens the right to freely move throughout the territory of India and to settle down in...

    11 Aug 2019 11:29 PM

    Our electoral process needs many changesOpinion
    Our electoral process needs many changes

    The law prescribes a minimum of 22 days from the last date for filing of nomination to the date of polling.

    8 May 2019 8:59 PM

    No woman has yet been able to visit the Sabarimala temple after the Supreme Court lifted the centuries-old ban. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Supreme Court must pay heed to customs in Sabarimala

    In the case of triple talaq, where a Muslim woman a citizen of India aggrieved by the practice of talaq, challenged its...

    21 Oct 2018 6:38 PM

    Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    A layman's guide to SC's Delhi verdict

    The shouts of initiating action against the lieutenant-governor and the officials concerned for contempt of the Supreme...

    12 July 2018 7:34 PM

    EVM machineOpinion
    Post-poll pacts need disciplining

    Disastrous consequences to the nation of a rule by such a coalition even for a brief spell of six months are not...

    30 May 2018 8:40 PM

    Chief Minister SiddaramiahOpinion
    What's behind Siddu's Lingayat move...

    Political gimmicks have no long-term goals. People are expected to forget, and they do.

    4 April 2018 1:34 AM

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses the party workers meeting in Amritsar on Monday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    President's rule only way out in Delhi

    The IAS officers attached to the Delhi government have refused to work till the CM tenders an apology.

    5 March 2018 8:34 PM

    Still from Padmaavat.Opinion
    Filmmakers' issues: Free speech vs right to trade

    The directors' creative imaginations may run riot and trespass into the privacy of others only to boost the box office.

    20 Feb 2018 2:01 AM

    Supreme Court judges (from left) Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur address the media in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    4 judges didn't revolt, they've only reacted

    Framing rules for the guidance of the Masters of the Roster' will avoid any comparable controversy in future.

    16 Jan 2018 7:13 PM

    Like the state police, the CBI has also been accused time and again of helping culprits and of harassing innocent people.Opinion
    Why CBI? Upgrade, reform police forces

    The CBI, during its nearly seven decades of existence, has in its functioning slipped, and slipped badly too, several...

    13 Sept 2017 9:47 PM

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