Constitutional

National Anthem: Liberal overreactions damage personal liberty instead of securing it

If the Supreme Court order on National Anthem, with all due respect, appears problematic, so do some of the liberal reactions to it.

Section 377: We're here, we're queer, we're not going anywhere

From Mumbai to Montréal and Lucknow to London, more that 35 cities across the globe pledged that there would be “No going back”- a refusal to return to the closet - in response to the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Section 377, which effectively recrimalised homosexuality in India. More that 35 cities across the globe pledged that there would be “No going back”- a refusal to return to the closet - in response to the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Section 377.

SC stays Gauhati HC verdict, CBI still constitutional

After the furore over the Gauhati High Court's verdict declaring the Central Bureau of Investigation unconstitutional, the Supreme Court today stayed the court's verdict.

Govt should take steps to give CBI constitutional shape: Omar Abdullah

"The Government should think very seriously what steps are needed to be taken to give proper structure and constitutional shape to CBI," Omar Abdullah said.

Egyptian military says only dialogue can avert disaster

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military said on Saturday only dialogue could avert "catastrophe", stepping into a crisis pitting Islamist President Mohamed Mursi against opponents who accuse him of grabbing excessive power. State broadcasters interrupted their programmes to read out an army statement telling feuding factions that a solution to the upheaval in the most populous Arab nation should not contradict "legitimacy and the rules of democracy". That sounded like a swipe at protesters who have besieged the palace of the freely elected president and called for his removal, going beyond mainstream opposition demands for him to retract a decree that expanded his powers.