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By Aditya Aamir Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s voice is breaking. Too many election rallies, too much ‘Mitron…’ With polling underway in Madhya Pradesh and soon in Rajasthan, PM Modi couldn’t stop speaking and he was telling folks in Nagaur in Rajasthan how valuable their votes were. Rajasthan, they...
Pakistan foreign ministry is learned to be inviting Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for the SAARC summit next year in Islamabad, but just a day before India hit out the country for harboring terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2011 (26/11), killing more than hundred people. Experts believe...
SLPs rejection appeals against death sentences will have to carry reasons – The Supreme Court has held that SLPs against decisions of lower courts granting death sentences to individuals, when dismissed should contain the reasons of dismissal. The Court observed that when consideration such a petition, the court has...
By Bindu Doddahatti On October 13, 2018, the play “Shiva” — a performance on sexuality and gender, directed by artist Dayasindhu Sakrepatna — had to be shelved because right-wing elements from Bharata Punarutthana Trust, an affiliate of Vishwa Hindu Parishat, filed a complaint against Jagriti theatre, the institution...
By Sagarneel Sinha The hurried dissolution of Jammu & Kashmir assembly, already in suspension since June this year when the BJP walked out of the Mehbooba Mufti led PDP–BJP coalition government, by Governor Satyapal Malik has once again shown that New Delhi is not identical with the...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As voters head for the booths on November 28, both the BJP and Congress can have the satisfaction of having fought the battle with all their might. In the overall assessment, however, BJP appeared to be far ahead of Congress both in resources...
By Aditya Aamir They do duplicity as part of their job description. That’s what people have begun to believe of the police in strife-country Kerala. People can do nothing other than to resort to foul language, which comes easy to those who feel cheated and betrayed. The...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The story around Judge B.H. Loya’s death on 1st December, 2014, which was highly suspicious, refuses to die. After the Supreme Court refused order an independent investigation into the mysterious death of Judge Loya in April, 2018, the hope for the truth coming out...
By Amulya Ganguli Even the limited signs of the revival of the Congress in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have revived the old apprehensions about the 133-year-old party’s penchant for dominance in the years immediately after independence. It is not only the BJP which is so uneasy...
By Ben Chako Theresa May and her close accomplices in the European Union have laid bare the tactics they will deploy to bludgeon MPs into approving her EU withdrawal in name only. May backed EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker after he asserted: “This is the best deal possible...