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Pakistan’s General Elections Widely Rigged: Sources

It is doubtful to the highest level whether the general elections in Pakistan was fair, if take a look to what the Trump administration is saying. It has not yet confirmed the polls were free and fair. More to this, the State Department didn’t deploy election observers in India’s...

Jul 26 · >

Waiting for Modi’s secret diary ‘written by himself’

By Sushil Kutty Tom Horn was a tracker of renegade Red Indians and cattle rustlers. He had powerful fists and was a marksman of note. Horn wrote his story and the publishers put on the cover the words ‘Written by Himself’. It was quaint. Now, there are lots of...

Jul 26 · >

Five More Years India Will Be Truly Cowed

By Aditya Aamir Vigilantism remains the focus. Talking of the cow vigilante, RSS honcho Indresh Kumar speaks like he owns not only the cow but also the human being, those with Indian citizenship – lock, stock and stomach. He consigns the bovine to the idiot category. That the cow...

Jul 25 · >

Indian Railways A Prisoner Of The Past

By G. Srinivasan Being the world’s largest rail network with 67,368 km of route length spread across the continental-sized country of ours, the Indian Railways (IRs) today is on the threshold of a challenging phase ahead, as it has taken multiple tasks on hand with no matching resources to...

Jul 25 · >

Same Old Political Rhetoric till 2019?

By Amulya Ganguli Indian elections are generally boisterous affairs with the atmosphere of a carnival. However, the chances are that the zing will be absent during the forthcoming state assembly elections and the general election next year. The excitement will be only when the results are announced even if...

Jul 25 · >

S&P Unhappy With Pace Of Indian Banking Reforms

By K. Raveendran Global ratings agency Standard & Poors has expressed disappointment over the pace of reforming the Indian banking sector as part of the programme to address the system’s non-performing assets. The agency noted that although a few initiatives have been announced to reform the sector, very few...

Jul 25 · >

There Are No Cow Vigilante In Rwanda

By Sushil Kutty There is a special kind of Hell for the cow vigilante. It is not a lake of boiling pitch. That is for corrupt politicians. In Dante’s Hell, the cow vigilante is hung from meat-hooks. Roasted on slow fire. Cow Vigilante Fry! Malayali Happymon Jacob tweets that...

Jul 24 · >

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

i. Supreme Court reserves judgment in Section 377 case: After four days of arguments, the Apex Court reserved its judgment on the validity of Section 377, IPC. On the last day, the religious groups, mainly Christian ones, and Suresh Kumar Koushal, who was party in the early proceedings, argued...

Jul 24 · >

Supreme Court Comes Down Heavily On Lynching Crimes

By Amritananda Chakravorty On 21st July early morning, a cattle trader named Rakbar was lynched in Alwar for suspected cow smuggling, more than a year after dairy farmer Pehlu Khan was lynched in the same place. Since lynching has become the ‘new normal’ in ‘New India’, it caused the...

Jul 24 · >

Beyond hug-n-wink: what roadmap for 2019?

By Kalyani Shankar Now that the Narendra Modi government has won the trust vote on Friday, what next? The dramatic ‘hug’ and ‘wink’ of the Congress President Rahul Gandhi while speaking on the no-trust motion on Friday might have become news, but the real question is whether the Opposition...

Jul 24 · >
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