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By Sushil Kutty Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi Tuesday spoke of a ‘platform’ some people are using to air their views and that not every Tom, Dick or Harry should be given one to use or misuse. Most people who commute by the Metro do use...
By Anjan Roy It all ended in a whimper. The government and the Reserve Bank had been publicly disagreeing on a number of issues which were thought to be so serious as to bring forth resignation of the Reserve Bank governor Urjit Patel. The battle was to be...
By Aditya Aamir Different strokes for different people are giving Kerala Police a bad name. Shouting ‘Sat Sri Akal’ doesn’t invite instant arrest in Amritsar post the recent grenade attack, which killed several people, but chanting ‘Sharanam Ayyappa’ in Sabarimala can land the Ayyappa devotee in the slammer,...
CVC ordered to furnish copy of report to Alok Verma – The Supreme Court has ordered the The reports, as the court noted, appeared to be mixed. In the hearing, counsel representing NGO Common Cause, which had filed for a probe into the circumstances leading to the removal of...
By Amritananda Chakravorty In recent times, the Supreme Court is not just the final arbiter of rights, but also the hub of all political developments. Not a day goes by when the Highest Court does not deliberate on extremely pertinent issue, with wide ramifications. In the last one...
By Arun Srivastava Utter confusion grips British rulers and their political parties on whether the UK should quit the EU. Even after two years of the referendum piloted by David, which authorised the country to part company with the EU, the British leadership lacks clarity whether they took...
By Amulya Ganguli Mayawati’s comment that she is not interested in a post-poll pact with her latest ally, Ajit Jogi, in Chhattisgarh is yet another example of her singularly self-centred brand of politics which has little place for political partners outside her immediate objectives. In Chhattisgarh, the...
By Sushil Kutty The ‘Police Raj’ in Sabarimala is being questioned after a night of an unprecedented police-devotee confrontation at the Ayyappa Temple. The Kerala High court sought an answer from the Kerala government Monday morning, seeking to know the source of the order to control the Ayyappa...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: If all the promises made by Congress and BJP in their manifestoes for the upcoming MP Assembly polls were to be fulfilled the state government is destined to become bankrupt. Congress in its ‘Vachan Patra’ has promised the moon to the voters. If...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP have decided to up the ante on the Sabarimala issue. As part of a well-planned strategy, the saffron brigade has decided to intensify the agitation by hitting the streets. The Sangh...