IPA Special
Supreme Court Ignoring Urgency Of Civil Liberties Issue In Kashmir
By Amritananda Chakravorty On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, the Supreme Court finally took up the slew of petitions challenging the validity of the Presidential Orders dated August 5 and August 6 respectively, after 24 days of complete lockdown of 7 million people in Kashmir, and directed that these...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Resorting to legal proceedings by the wife cannot be deemed as ‘cruelty’ in divorce proceedings – The Supreme Court has held that if a wife resorts to legal proceedings, it could not be treated as mental cruelty. In his divorce petition, the husband had alleged that the wife had...
Labour Welfare Schemes Are Being Abolished By Modi Government
By B. Sivaraman Modi Government is abrogating not only labour rights in the name of labour reforms, it has not spared the labour welfare schemes either. Labour welfare cesses are being abolished and labour welfare acts are being scrapped one by one. On 8 August 2019, the government...
Boris Johnson Leads Britain To A Deeper Crisis
By Arun Srivastava Quite intriguing how could Brexit drag the Queen into the heart of Britain’s political crisis. Apprehensions were already there that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson would take recourse to suspending the parliament, but his move would come so soon is really a matter of conjecture....
BJP, Opposition Pained Alike In Losing Arun Jaitley
By Rahil Nora Chopra BJP’s trouble shooter, active lawyer, politician, cricket administrator, minister and true friend Arun Jaitley died at the age 66 years in AIIMS at 12.07 pm on 24 August. He was admitted in AIIMS on 7 August with the complaint of difficulty in respiration. Jaitley was...
Fresh Poll In Britain Is Need Of The Hour
By Ben Chacko Boris Johnson’s intention to prorogue Parliament has provoked much contrived outrage from opposition politicians and Commons Speaker John Bercow. But where have these self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy” been while Jeremy Corbyn and many progressive and labour movement figures have been demanding a genuine exercise in...
Congress More Diverse Than India’s Diversity
By K. Raveendran The Congress party has been reduced to being a confederation of leaders ever since president Rahul Gandhi announced he was stepping down following a near rout in the elections, with lack of homogeneity becoming a least common denominator. There is a palpable loss of the...
In First Year Of Modi’s Second Term, GDP Growth To Hit Lowest In 6 Years
By Satyaki Chakraborty The first year of the second term of the Narendra Modi Government is going to witness the lowest GDP growth of 6.7 per cent in the last six years. The economic crisis has accentuated in the last two years and despite all the talk of...
Shashi Tharoor In The Eye Of A Political Storm
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader from Kerala, Shashi Tharoor, finds himself in the eye of a raging political storm. The controversy-prone MP from Thiruvananthapuram has, once again, kicked up a flaming row over his Modi-friendly statement. Tharoor’s remark that there is no need to criticise...
New Twist In British Politics Over Brexit
By Arun Srivastava Through the “Church House Declaration” around 165 British MPs from across the parties have pledged to form alternative parliament in case the Prime Minister Boris Johnson goes ahead with his plan to prorogue the parliament in the event of Boris failing to make a no-deal...
