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Bail Not Jail Is The Norm In Indian Statutes
By Pratyush Nigam and Sri Hari Mangalam Justice Krishna Iyer, in a landmark judgement, State of Rajasthan vs Balchand, 1977 laid down one of the basic rules of legal proceedings, i.e., to provide bail and avoid jail time for the accused. The judgement has laid the foundation for a...
Peru Is Facing A Tough Time After The Presidential Elections
By Denis Rogatyuk Pedro Castillo, a rural teacher and union leader, has won the Peruvian elections with 50.179 per cent and a margin of approximately 60,000 votes (0.4 per cent). Keiko Fujimori, the candidate of the far-right and the daughter of ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori, has cried fraud and commenced...
RSS Is Playing Game In Narendra Modi-Yogi Adityanath Tussle
By Arun Srivastava Two autocrats cannot survive on the same political plane and the RSS was using the political contradictions between the two Hindutva icon of the country is playing to consolidate its own grip on the ideological frame work which was threatened by their personality contradictions, by...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta Was A Visual Poet In Celluloid
By Nitya Chakraborty Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of the most talented film makers of Bengal who stirred the international film festivals year after year with his films of ‘other kind’ passed away in his South Kolkata flat on June 10 morning during sleep. He was 77, ailing for the...
Critics Of Government Deserve Protection, Not Punishment
By Krishna Jha The charge of sedition, 124 A of the IPC, that has been authorized to punish up to life long incarceration, has been called the Queen of the entire Indian Penal Code. The punishment it envisages is extremely brutal and symbolizes not power, but insecurity. The...
Nuclear Nations Must Bring Down Spending On Armaments To Fight Pandemic
By Dr Arun Mitra A recent report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) titled Complicit: 2020 GLOBAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS SPENDING has brought forwards startling facts on the total insensitivity of the governments and the nuclear weapons industry during the Pandemic which has already cost...
Early June Data Shows Unemployment To Rise Further
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment continues rising. The 30-day moving average unemployment rate rose to 13 percent on June 6, 2021 from 11.9 per cent in May as per the CMIE data, indicating worsening of the situation further. Not only that, the labour participation rate fell further to...
Faction Fighting Intensifies In Madhya Pradesh BJP
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange and unexpected developments in the ruling BJP have given rise to various speculation including the possibility of change in the leadership of the Madhya Pradesh government. In order to refute such rumours Home Minister and government designated spokesman Dr. Narottam Mishra issued...
Is Congress Wooing Varun Gandhi To Cross Over From BJP?
By Rahil Nora Chopra After former Union minister Jitin Prasada, once close to Rahul Gandhi, crossed over to the BJP, now Congress may be all set to stage a virtual coup in the family of Indira Gandhi’s estranged daughter-in-law Maneka Gandhi by wooing her restive son BJP MP Varun...
Time Ripe For Removing The Sedition Law From Indian Statute Completely
By D Raja The recent Supreme Court decision in quashing sedition charges against Vinod Dua for his alleged criticism of the Prime Minister constitutes a hastening development for our country. Since 2014 onwards, sedition cases are slapped on people at an accelerated pace. 160 per cent rise in...
Fight For The Principles Of Federalism Is Integral To Battle Against Authoritarianism
By Prakash Karat Not a day passes without some attack on the federal structure and infringement of states’ rights taking place. If one day, the centre unilaterally announced a vaccine policy whereby states are asked to procure vaccines and pay for them, then another day, the chief secretary...
Cryptocurrency Trading Moves A Step Closer To Legitimacy
By K Raveendran Cryptocurrency, by its very nature, has been a millennial obsession and it is perhaps in the fitness of things that El Salvador under its millennial president Nayib Bukele has become the first ever country to declare bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, a legal currency. Bukele’s administration...
Indian People Have To Be Ready To Live With Long Covid For Quite Some Time
By Sushil Kutty As if the shorter version of Covid-19 wasn’t enough, there’s the Long Covid to contend with. The lucky ones get struck by a sudden halt to heart beat and the call from heaven! This happened to a TV journalist who had made enemies. Also to...
Foreign Investors Are Bullish At India’s Post- Pandemic Recovery
By Subrata Majumder Investment in India has plunged. Projects valued US $ 129 billion were dropped. New investment announced fell by over two-third in 2020-21, compared to its preceding year. In contrast, FDI in India increased by over 19 per cent, albeit global FDI fell by over 42.7...
Sardar Tarlochan Singh Was A Global Crusader For The Causes Of Sikhs
By Harihar Swarup Sardar Tarlochan Singh was very popular figure in Parliament even though he had only a short-term of three years in the Rajya Sabha. Apart from Parliament, he excelled in public relations. He was public relation man of the late President Gyani Zail Singh in Rashtrapati...
Tea Consumption Showing Steep Rise In Bangladesh As Living Standard Rises
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, the tea industry is thriving on the strength of rising income levels within the country. Apparently, because they earn more, people tend to drink more tea. Average per capita consumption has risen according to some estimates, almost five fold, from around 90 to...
Prashant Kishor, Mamata Banerjee And 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The ace poll strategist Prasant Kishor is back into action. After enjoying a holiday for one month following the gruelling elections in Bengal the results of which were out on May 2, PK beaming with his success after ensuring massive defeat of Modi-Shah duo in...
Modi Jolted Out Of Comfort Zone By Court, People’s Verdict
By K Raveendran It is now clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s indifference to the burning problems facing the country and creating a space for him to pursue his own agenda, which mostly pertained to the periphery of national life, in the process giving him much ease of...
