The Constitution of India is like an elastic band. It is both flexible and rigid at the same time; no matter how much one moulds it, it retains its original sha ...

India, March 3 -- India's Finance Commissions are often viewed as technical exercises in tax sharing. Yet they are far more than accounting mechanisms. Every Commission reflects a deeper ...

The Centre on Tuesday sought to justify the increase in the states’ share of funds under the recently passed VB-G RAM G Act, saying such a model would promote “cooperative federalism”. The chief ...

India’s environmental governance framework has historically been constrained by a rigid adherence to political and administrative demarcations. By privileging anthropogenic jurisdictions over the ...

Some scholars argue that, under the Trump Administration, the balance between state and federal power takes both the form “cooperative federalism,” in which state information aiding ICE crackdowns, ...

The Trump administration’s aggressive policies on immigration are receiving pushback not just on Capitol Hill but across the country. Democratic leaders in multiple states are refusing to cooperate ...

After the sprawling and chaotic federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, jurisdictions in other states have been bracing ...

A high-level committee on Union-State relations appointed by the Government of Tamil Nadu has mapped the pattern of centralisation of power and the weakening of federal democracy in India over the ...

The Constitution of India, while federal in structure, was designed with a pronounced centralising bias. Drawing heavily from the Government of India Act, 1935, it concentrated significant authority ...

“We should stop deceiving ourselves by sending police commissioners from any state in the North to the Southwest or the ...

Matt Graham and Ikuma Horishima compete in the men's dual moguls semifinals. Michael Reaves / Getty Images LIVIGNO, Italy — Late Sunday morning, under the bluest Alpine sky, the greatest mogul skier ...