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Former Chief Minister and Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Kamal Nath has said that he is not the kind of person “who wastes his energy on countering baseless allegations”. Nath, who on Friday completed 76 years of age, was responding to BJP’s accusations against him of insulting Hindu religion. Nath drew courted controversy after […]

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Bharatiya Janata Party National General Secretary BL Santosh has been summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Telangana Police investigating the alleged MLAs poaching case in the state. Telangana government-appointed SIT has served notice to the BJP leader under Section 41A of the Criminal Procedure Code(CrPC) asking him to report at Police Command and Control Centre […]

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The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday told a Delhi court that the agency had no role in the leak of purported CCTV footage showing jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain getting special treatment inside the prison cell. The ED made the submission before Special Judge Vikas Dhull while opposing Jain’s plea seeking contempt proceedings against the agency […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The government may disagree, India’s economic performance in the last eight years has proved to be rather lacklustre. It has been facing a real challenge from the ever expanding black economy, substantially eating up the revenue income of both the national and state governments. Unaccounted money with the rich is hurting the […]

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By Arun Srivastava Like other incongruities, the Narendra Modi government once again has resorted to the same tactics and made Reserve Bank of India answerable for implementing the Prime Minister’s personal decision to demonetise the currency. Only three days back Modi government virtually in an act of renunciation of PM’s responsibility told the Supreme Court […]

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The Delhi High Court has held that political parties cannot consider election symbols as their “exclusive property” and the right to use a symbol can be lost if a party’s performance is dismal. The high court’s observation came while dismissing an appeal by Samata Party challenging a single judge’s order which had rejected its plea […]

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By Sushil Kutty The main protagonist in the open and shut ‘Fridge Murder’ case, a la the ‘tandoor murder’ saga, Aftab Poonawala, is in safe hands. This, after a Delhi court warned the Delhi Police from using the third degree on Poonawala in their zeal to nail the self-confessed murderer of Shraddha Walkar, his live-in […]

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By James M Dorsey Recent Saudi efforts to appease the Biden administration in the wake of the kingdom’s backing of last month’s OPEC+ oil production cut take on added significance in the wake of this week’s US midterm elections that have strengthened Joe Biden and weakened former President Donald J. Trump. Saudi insistence on a […]

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Jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday moved a court here seeking contempt proceedings against the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly leaking CCTV footage to the media in which he is seen receiving massage inside Tihar Jail. Special Judge Vikas Dhull issued a notice to the Enforcement Directorate on Jain’s plea, asking the agency to file […]

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Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, who has agreed to meet lawyers of the Gujarat High Court striking over a judge’s transfer, on Saturday said that the strike makes “consumers of justice suffer”. Speaking at the felicitation function organised by the Bar Council of India (BCI), he backed the collegium system of judicial appointments, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Investigating Agency (NIA) under Union Home Minister Amit Shah as Union Minister of Home Affairs has now gained enough notoriety in the public as violators of rule of law and even the order of the courts of justice. NIA’s attitude towards the human rights defenders have even been heavily […]

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Top BJP leader BL Santhosh has been summoned by the Telangana police over his party’s alleged attempts to “buy” four MLAs from Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS. National General Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP, BL Santhosh has to appear on November 21 or he will be arrested, according to the notices. This comes days after […]

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By C. Srikumar Agitation of the central government and state government Employees are going on throughout the country against the no-guarantee National Pension System (NPS) implemented by the BJP-led NDA government during the year 2003. The central government and state government employees are grateful to the Communist Party of India for adopting a resolution against […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik There are two defining and portentous features of the current world economic situation. One, which is well discussed, is the world-wide increase in interest rates in response to the pervasive inflationary upsurge; it would indubitably generate recession and unemployment, which, notwithstanding all protestations to the contrary, is the real objective behind it. […]

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A week after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six people who were convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the central government on Thursday requested the court to review its decision. The Centre filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking it to review the order, after the […]

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Enforcement Directorate chief SK Mishra has received another year-long extension, his third in the job. With this extension, he would complete five years in the post next year. Last year, Mishra became the first to receive a year’s extension in service. The notice came days after the government passed an executive order to extend tenure […]

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By Prakash Karat Some of the recent positions and steps taken by the Election Commission (EC) of India do no credit to its well-earned reputation of being an impartial arbiter and supervisor of free and fair elections, a role vested in it by the Indian Constitution. In the last few years, particularly after the Modi […]

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By K Raveendran Supreme Court Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has elucidated his concept of ‘equal‘ and ‘modern’ judiciary, free from colonial hangovers, in which there would not be any subordinate judges, often used in the context of district courts, but only judges of equal worth, irrespective of where they serve. The district judiciary is […]

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The premature release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case has become part of political and electoral discourse in Gujarat in run-up to the next month’s Assembly polls with the opposition Congress mentioning about the episode in its poll manifesto and vowing to ensure justice to the survivor. A section of observers […]

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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray against the Election Commission’s interim order freezing Shiv Sena party name and its election symbol. Justice Sanjeev Narula said it would be in the interest of both–the two Shiv Sena factions and the general public– that the Election Commission’s […]

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Fifty-one former and sitting parliamentarians face Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases lodged by the Enforcement Directorate, the Supreme Court has been informed. However, the report does not mention how many of the 51 are sitting and former members of parliament (MPs). A report submitted before the top court also apprised it that 71 Members […]

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By Arun Srivastava Offence is the best strategy for Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren to foil the mischievous designs of the Narendra Modi government, the BJP and the powerful caucus  of the Dikus, the non tribals, who have been desperate to grab the land of the adivasis on the plea of industrial development and their […]

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When asked about the ruling BJP’s plans for the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC), union home minister Amit Shah pointed out on Monday in poll-bound Gujarat that his party keeps its promises. Speaking at the News18 India Gujarat Adhiveshan event, the home minister said that in any secular country, there shouldn’t be laws based on […]

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Newly sworn-in Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Monday asked Supreme Court and High Court judges to shun the “colonial mindset” and the “culture of subordination” while dealing with district court judges, saying the country needs to move towards a “more modern and equal judiciary”. Speaking at his felicitation ceremony organised by the Supreme […]

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