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By S. Sethuraman Ethics and morals get pushed under the carpet as the country makes a seamless stride into the 2019 Lok Sabha Poll Campaign, the ruling majoritarian BJP bracing itself more in a fire-fighting mode while its hated adversary, the Congress is engaged in digging for more scams...
i. Supreme Court modifies the guidelines of Section 498A, IPC: The Supreme Court has modified the directions issued by it in Rajesh Sharma v Uttar Pradesh, which were aimed at controlling the misuse of Section 498A, but ended up diluting the whole law. The Court felt that the directions...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Congressmen are celebrating the successful visit of Congress president Rahul Gandhi to Bhopal, angry demonstration against chief minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan at many places are causing worry for the BJP. On the day Rahul Gandhi was being welcomed by the cheering crowd...
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Kerala Police arrest Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused of multiple rapes of a nun? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Keralites. Interrogation of the Bishop, who had been asked to appear before the probe team in Kochi,...
By Arun Srivastava Conjectures are making rounds in the political circles about Amit Shah and Narendra Modi salvaging the electoral prospect of their party and ensuring its return to power after the 2019 general elections. The assumption is that they will manage to carry the urban middle class voters...
By Raju Kumar Congress remaining out of power in the state for last 15 years, is now adopted the strategy of “do or die”. The Congress party, which has been consistently sluggish, has been appearing to be very energetic from the last few months. In this regime, Congress has...
By Amritananda Chakravorty President of India has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India, and he would assume office on 3rd October, 2018, a day after the current Chief Justice Dipak Mishra retires. The prelude to any new Chief Justice being sworn in is often...
By Gyan Pathak Waiting for Modi’s promised ‘Good Days’ is now like waiting for Godot. The Human Development Index 2018 released recently by UNDP shows that India lagged far behind the majority of countries in health, education, and gender development despite its being the fastest growing economy of the...
By Aditya Aamir Everybody is talking of whether or not Congress and the rest of the Opposition made a mistake not accepting the invitation to attend the RSS meet. But ask about the timing of the meet, why now? Therein, probably, lies a story, or maybe two. One of...
By Amulya Ganguli Chun chun ke nikaloonga (we’ll throw them out one by one). This was BJP president Amit Shah’s dire warning to the ghuspetiyas or the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. They should be killed like kira, makaura (insects), threatened a BJP leader of Telangana, Raja Singh. Senior BJP...