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The Karnataka state government’s order on hijab has raked up the issue of constitutional morality and minority rights. Is the State empowered to interfere with religious practises? Has there been a discrimination on the basis of religion?

The Karnataka High Court has struck down amendments to the Police Act which had criminalised wagering, betting or risking money. This has come as a boon for the online gaming industry.

The Press Information Bureau’s new guidelines on accreditation has stirred a hornet’s nest. Media organisations have been quick to brand them as another measure to restrict press freedom.

The apex court, while hearing petitions highlighting the issue, has expressed its displeasure multiple times. In its latest show of quizzing, it pulled up the centre once again. Why does the anomaly persist?

Chitra Ramkrishna, a CA who headed the National Stock Exchange (NSE) between 2013 and 2016, was touted as one of the powerful women of the securities market in India. But she has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons.

The project is mired in controversy due to its high cost and supposed ecological damage. But the High Court has allowed the government to conduct a survey and mark the properties affected by it.

Unfriendly clauses in business laws have grown drastically in recent times. If India has to go up World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index, there should be a master document citing all compliance obligations for each product.

On February 17, 2022, the Supreme Court set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order staying the controversial law of the government of Haryana providing for 75% reservation for the local youth in private sector jobs paying less than Rs 30,000 a month. The Court observed that the High Court had not given sufficient reasons for stopping the Haryana law in its tracks. Without going into the merits of the matter, the Court ordered that the High Court should decide the petition before it expeditiously and not later than a period of four weeks. At the same time, the Court directed the state government not to take any “coercive steps” against employers for violating the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020.

Our Constitution is a constructive one. There is no room for absolutism. There is no space for anarchy. Sometimes it is argued, though, in a different context, that one can be a ‘rational anarchist’, but the said term has no term in the constitutional governance and the rule of law. Fulfilment of constitutional idealism ostracizing anything that is not permissible by the language of the provisions of the Constitution and showing to its spirit and silence with a sense of reawakening to the vision of the great living document is, in fact, constitutional renaissance,” observed Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in his judgment in the famous Delhi government case in 2018.

A case of a woman claiming she was “gang raped” after entering Facebook’s Metaverse has shown the need for laws in 3D virtual worlds. Digital dignity too should be structured around human dignity.