Analysis

Studies examining caste-based backwardness have a higher bar to pass than those studying backwardness within the ‘general category'.

DESK BRIEF: The SC observed that suspension of Assembly members for long periods through majority resolutions threatened democracy.

There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.

DESK BRIEF: The Third Wave of the pandemic has pushed the Supreme Court to shift to virtual hearings and prioritise urgent matters.

We covered cases the SC heard in December, reviewed the key judgments of 2021, and engaged with the cases that the Court will hear in 2022.

DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.

DESK BRIEF: Hospitals short of 60,000 doctors as the SC hears case on reservation for OBC & EWS students in Postgraduate NEET courses.

Justice Subhash Reddy retired today after three years and two months at the Supreme Court. He was elevated in November 2018.