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By Sushil Kutty Looking “sophisticated” and “polished” doesn’t mean zilch to the lynch mob. And if you distribute candies and toffees to children you’re bound to be a child-lifter, get your skull cracked. This much was proven last Friday after a mob gathered by Whatsapp beat to...
Shia Waqf Board surrenders claim to Ayodhya Land – During the hearings of the Babri Masjid demolition case last week, in a surprising development, the Shia Central Board of Waqf decided to surrender its claim to the temple land in the interest of the ‘integrity of the country’. The...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala has scored a self-goal, to put it in the prevailing mood of football fever. The reference is to the move by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s (KPCC) ‘Vichar Vibhag’ to celebrate the ‘Ramayana month’ to ‘liberate Ramayana from the clutches of...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The much awaited hearings in the constitutional challenge to Section 377, IPC began last week before the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, presided by Chief Justice Dipak Mishra, and Justice Rohington Nariman, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, and Justice Indu Malhotra. The...
By Nitya Chakraborty The monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 18 is set to witness fierce battle between the NDA government led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a number of key policies including labour issues, especially the centre’s bid for privatization of the public sector companies...
By Nantoo Banerjee The population count is around 1.3 billion. The national GDP is close to $2.6 trillion. India, the world’s sixth largest economy, is growing at well over seven percent. Big spenders number nearly 250 million. The domestic air traffic growth, last year, was close to 20...
By Arun Srivastava The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday but the verdict was passed at the get together of some senior BJP leaders at the residence of a national leader a couple of months ago. The BJP leaders attending the session demanded that the...
By K Raveendran A day before senior Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjan Gogoi spoke about the need for ‘noisy judges and independent journalists’, describing them as democracy’s first line of defence, a bench of the apex court made noise over Taj Mahal. It was not clear whether the...
By Harihar Swarup The Supreme Court is rightly concerned over the “apathy” of the Centre and the U.P. government towards preserving the Taj Mahal. It gave an ultimatum to the government— either restore the pristine beauty of the Taj or demolish it. The apex court has been monitoring...
By Barun Das Gupta The Trump administration has imposed a fresh sanction on Iran and issued a peremptory diktat to “all Asian countries”, including India, to bring down Iranian oil imports to ‘zero’ by November 4. This is nothing but imposing sanctions on Iran unilaterally. It is illegal...