Indian Independence Act, 1947

The Supreme Court adjudicated appeals against the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's 2007 award allocating waters of the inter-State river Cauvery among Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry. The Court upheld the Tribunal's adoption of the principle of equitable apportionment as recognized in international rules…

The President of India issued Constitutional Orders 272 and 273, which applied the entire Constitution of India to the State of Jammu and Kashmir and abrogated Article 370. Simultaneously, Parliament enacted the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019, bifurcating the State into two Union Territories: Jammu and Kashm…

The case concerns the Mullaperiyar dam, a masonry dam built on the Periyar River in Kerala but owned and operated by Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu filed a suit under Article 131 of the Constitution seeking to enforce its rights under the 1886 lease agreement and to raise the dam’s full reservoir level (FRL) to 142 ft, as prev…