Apurva Vishwanath is the National Legal Editor at The Indian Express, where she leads the organization’s coverage of the Indian judiciary, constitutional law, and public policy. A law graduate with a B.A., LL.B (Hons) from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Apurva brings over a decade of specialized experience to her reporting. She is an authority on judicial appointments and the Supreme Court Collegium, providing critical analysis of the country’s legal landscape....Read More
Apurva Vishwanath is the National Legal Editor at The Indian Express, where she leads the organization’s coverage of the Indian judiciary, constitutional law, and public policy. A law graduate with a B.A., LL.B (Hons) from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Apurva brings over a decade of specialized experience to her reporting. She is an authority on judicial appointments and the Supreme Court Collegium, providing critical analysis of the country’s legal landscape.
Before joining The Indian Express in 2019, she honed her expertise at The Print and Mint.
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Aug 30, 2024 04:20 IST
From the Ram Janmabhoomi issue to the annexation of Hyderabad to India, from Kashmir...
Fri, Aug 30, 2024
Aug 29, 2024 03:55 IST
In July 2022, the SC in a landmark ruling had upheld the constitutionality of the PMLA and read the...
Thu, Aug 29, 2024
Aug 27, 2024 15:46 IST
The SC criticised the Delhi High Court’s decision to not apply a key exception for women in the...
Thu, Aug 29, 2024
Aug 21, 2024 04:04 IST
It is learnt that during the meeting with the CJI, Mehta also briefly brought up the case of human...
Wed, Aug 21, 2024
Aug 20, 2024 06:05 IST
During the hearing on their case, the SC bench called for a report from the Registrar General of...
Tue, Aug 20, 2024
Aug 15, 2024 03:11 IST
The 1992 precedent limiting reservation to 50% is now politically fraught, with questions raised on...
Thu, Aug 15, 2024
Aug 10, 2024 05:17 IST
“In order to avail the right to a fair trial, the accused cannot be denied the right to have...
Sat, Aug 10, 2024
Aug 10, 2024 04:05 IST
“In case of delay coupled with incarceration for a long period and depending on the nature of the...
Sun, Aug 11, 2024
Aug 10, 2024 03:18 IST
According to the Annual Report for 2022-2023 published by the Office of the Controller General, a...
Sat, Aug 10, 2024
Aug 07, 2024 13:39 IST
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in its new Draft Broadcasting Bill has proposed...
Fri, Aug 09, 2024
Aug 07, 2024 11:07 IST
Among the key changes proposed is to bring the District Collector as the arbiter on whether a...
Thu, Aug 08, 2024
Aug 07, 2024 05:15 IST
The earlier draft stated that television broadcasting networks will have to register with the...
Wed, Aug 07, 2024
Aug 05, 2024 09:03 IST
In a string of rulings given over the last seven years, CJI Chandrachud has referred to substantive...
Tue, Aug 06, 2024
Aug 04, 2024 08:03 IST
Under the microscope since the July 27 deluge that claimed the lives of three UPSC aspirants in the...
Sun, Aug 04, 2024
Aug 02, 2024 04:01 IST
The ruling states that states cannot micro-classify in a way that it would “denude”, “rather...
Fri, Aug 02, 2024
Aug 01, 2024 11:04 IST
In 2004, the Supreme Court held that the sub-classification among Scheduled Castes for the purpose...
Fri, Aug 02, 2024
Aug 01, 2024 04:10 IST
The case was filed amidst the pandemic against the company for maligning allopathic medical...
Thu, Aug 01, 2024
Aug 01, 2024 02:00 IST
On 16 January, 2023, a three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India allowed lawyers to...
Thu, Aug 01, 2024
Jul 30, 2024 03:56 IST
During the proceedings, several senior lawyers were seen watching the proceedings to get a sense of...
Tue, Jul 30, 2024
Jul 23, 2024 08:28 IST
This ruling by Justices Fazl Ali and O Chinappa Reddy has been the precedent in administrative law...
Tue, Jul 23, 2024
Jul 21, 2024 15:49 IST
The framers of the Indian Constitution were cognisant of competing sub-nationalisms when it came to...
Sun, Jul 21, 2024
Jul 17, 2024 04:10 IST
In at least four states – West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Puducherry – the number...
Wed, Jul 17, 2024
Jul 13, 2024 07:13 IST
SC ruling is essentially on the ambit of Section 19 of PMLA. While this is taken up for...
Sat, Jul 13, 2024
Jul 13, 2024 04:05 IST
“Arrest, after all, cannot be made arbitrarily and on the whims and fancies of the authorities....
Sat, Jul 13, 2024
Jul 12, 2024 13:11 IST
While the fine print of the ruling is awaited, here are key aspects of the ruling that have a wider...
Thu, Jul 18, 2024