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Arrest Of Rights Activists Smacks Of Unofficial Emergency

By Raman Swamy   Varavara Rao is 77 years old – he is a well-known Telugu poet, college principal and human rights activist – his house in Hyderabad was raided on Tuesday morning.  The reason, according to the police, is that he is suspected of plotting to assassinate Prime...

Aug 29 · >

Siddaramaiah, Digvijay Singh spoilsports for Congress?

By Amulya Ganguli   The basis of the Opposition challenge to the BJP in the forthcoming State Assembly elections and next year’s general election is the formation of an alliance of regional parties. As is known in political circles, this togetherness will not be easy to achieve in view...

Aug 29 · >

Policies Are Meant To Help People, Not Harass

  By P. Sreekumaran   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Policies are meant to wipe off tears, not reduce people to tears. The rulers and politicians would do well to recall the famous words of Mahatma Gandhi in this regard. Gandhiji said in a memorable quote which has universal relevance: Before you take...

Aug 29 · >

Latest Scam In Madhya Pradesh Is About Footwears To Tribals

By L.S. Herdenia   BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is continuing his Ashrivad Yatra, two controversial events have hit the headlines. One relates to the supply of shoes to tribals and the other about the dispatch of over one crore letters addressed to women voters...

Aug 28 · >

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

  Denial of sanction to prosecute Yogi Adityanath in hate speech case challenged in Supreme Court – The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government in an appeal filed against an Allahabad High Court judgment, given earlier this year, dismissing a petition seeking an investigation into...

Aug 28 · >

1984 Delhi Riots Make Headlines Again

By Aditya Aamir   Of course, the Congress was not involved. Rogues wearing the Congress name on their sleeves busted into tyre shops and tested them in an innovating manner, cast the tyre round a Sikh neck to see how the tyre burned, the Sikh burned. The testing method...

Aug 28 · >

Delhi High Court Shows Its Firmness Against Dalit Killings

By Amritananda Chakravorty   The recent times have been a mixed bag for legal developments in dalit rights. While the Supreme Court sought to dilute the protections in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 last year in a much criticised judgment in Subhash Kashinath...

Aug 28 · >

Stalin Takes Charge With Brother In Shadow

By Aditya Aamir   Finally, after decades there is a Stalin at the head of a party, never mind if he is not Russian but a Tamil of India. MK Stalin is only the second president of the DMK and he’s got an elder brother who has no Russian...

Aug 28 · >

Many Challenges Before New J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik

By Kalyani Shankar   Jammu and Kashmir has got a political governor after five decades. Former Bihar governor Satya Pal Malik, who has a socialist background, has taken over the reins of the state last week. The last time Kashmir had a political governor was when Karan Singh became...

Aug 28 · >

Modi-Shah Combination Reconciled To 2019 Reality

By Arun Srivastava   Reports that point out that BJP would lose around 100 seats but eventually emerge as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha after the 2019 elections may sound soothing to the ears of the leaders of the party and its rank and file, but...

Aug 27 · >

Congress Manifesto Can Act As The Core Of Opposition Programme

By Nitya Chakraborty   The Congress leadership has finally announced the panel for preparing the manifesto of the Party for fighting the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in 2019.The content of the GOP’s manifesto is of crucial importance to the grassroots cadres of the Party since these will...

Aug 27 · >

Flood, Coastal Erosion Need Strong Policy Intervention

By Nantoo Banerjee   Kerala might have witnessed this August the heaviest-ever rainfall since 1924 causing a disastrous flood killing over 300 people, rendering thousands homeless and destroying crops in nearly one million hectares of land, but experts assessing the causes behind the calamity and its impact substantially blame...

Aug 27 · >

Congress dominates in mizoram:

By Barun Das Gupta   Tiny Mizoram (area 23,000 sq. kms, population 11 lakh) is the last outpost of the Congress in the North-East. State Assembly elections are due in Mizoram by the year end. In the last Assembly elections held in 2013, the Congress won 34 of the...

Aug 25 · >

Whatsapp Is Not A Law And Order App, Mr Prasad

By K Raveendran   In parts of the world where extreme principles of Shariah justice are practised, an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth are still the norm. People have been blinded for hurting their victims in the eye and hands chopped off to ensure retribution...

Aug 25 · >

Battle Of Coalitions In 2019 Lok Sabha Poll

By Harihar Swarup   What will be the scenario like if the general elections are held today—nine months before schedule? If the Opposition unites against the BJP and Narendra Modi, then it will be a battle between UPA and NDA, seeing a return of coalition governments, according to a...

Aug 25 · >

Greece Finally Ends Its Bailout Phase

By Kevin Ovenden   It had been planned to be a lavish celebration on the Pnyx hill next to the Acropolis in Athens where the citizenry would hold popular assemblies in the ancient democratic period.   The angry aftermath of the forest fires last month put paid to Greek...

Aug 25 · >

Face Recognition Verification Process Mandatory For New SIM Cards

Indian telcos have been given directed by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to collect a two-factor verification process while issuing new SIM cards to customers and one of the factors must include facial recognition to prevent misuse of Aadhaar authentication. In previous circular UIDAI had asked to ensure...

Aug 25 · >

Going Up In Smoke That Never Was: A 100 Million

By Aditya Aamir   Flood waters that badly wounded Kerala’s present and jeopardized its future are receding but controversies swirl and one of them involves the sandy country of UAE “which is a home away from home” for the Malayali, according to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Turns out...

Aug 25 · >
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