By Dr. Gyan Pathak It did not come as surprise when Delhi government led by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now accused Lieutenant Governor Office in an affidavit in the Supreme Court of “Derailing” Governance in the National Capital Territory of India, as has been seen in several states during the last 8 years of […]
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By Prakash Karat A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has, by a split verdict of 3 to 2 upheld the validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment which provided reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) from within the general category. The CPI(M) had supported this constitutional amendment in parliament in January 2019. This amendment was […]
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Last Updated: November 09, 2022, 19:06 IST The DMK will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict upholding the 10 per cent EWS quota, a move hailed by Congress MP Karti Chidambaram. DMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Minister for Water Resources, Duraimurugan, pointed out at the 3-2 majority verdict of the five-member […]
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By Arun Srivastava Like his earlier proposal ‘One Nation, One Uniform’, the innovative prime minister Narendra Modi has come out with yet another pioneering directive to the security forces to identify and crack down on the Urban Naxal network of Maoist strategists and their supporters across the country. This instruction makes it clear that Modi […]
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By Arun Kumar Six years back on November 8, the country suffered a policy-induced shock. The economy, which was coasting along at a good clip, suddenly stalled. The most severe impact was on the most vulnerable sections, who can barely take care of themselves. They largely belong to the unorganised sector, which employs 94 per […]
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In a major relief to Congress, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday set aside a trial court’s order to Twitter to block INC and Bharat Jodo Yatra handles over the alleged unauthorised use of music from the Kannada film ‘KGF Chapter-2’, calling it “punitive action.” A division bench of the High Court of Karnataka gave […]
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A day after the Supreme Court backed the Centre’s 10 per cent quota for the poor or EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) in jobs and education, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called for a nationwide caste census while his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin’s party said his government would challenge the decision in court. The Supreme […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government is stooping to its lowest level of propriety to channelize funds to the ruling BJP on the eve of the state assembly elections to Himachal and Gujarat. Himachal polls are due on November 12 and elections to Gujarat assembly are scheduled for December 1 and 5. The centre […]
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By K Raveendran It is six years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fateful night of 8 November, 2016 announced demonetisation, putting the nation to untold miseries and breaking the backbone of the country’s economy, but people are still groping in the dark as to why the draconian decision was taken and whether it […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak November 8, is the sixth anniversary of Demonetisation, and yet the Indian economy is haunted by black money, counterfeit notes, and cash-economy. The decision of a five-judge bench hearing a bunch of petitions regarding Modi’s decision of Demonetisation to further examine the 2016 move has therefore greater relevance than we presume, […]
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A Bengaluru court has ordered the temporary blocking of the Congress’s Twitter handle after a music firm filed a copyright case against the party for playing song from the movie KGF-2 at the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. M Naveen Kumar, who manages MRT music, filed the complaint against three Congress […]
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The Supreme Court today upheld the 10 per cent reservation in all colleges and government jobs for the poorer sections of India’s so-called “upper castes”. Two judges — CJI UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat – of the 5 in the bench, dissented. Reservation structured singularly on economic criteria does not violate the basic […]
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By Sushil Kutty Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda must have hit bed Sunday evening with a satisfied smile, but not as wide as the one ‘K’ for King Chandrashekar Rao must have had on his lean face. Stand Nadda and Rao shoulder to shoulder and it will be Laurel & Hardy in desi […]
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By L.S. Herdenia The Indian Journalists Union has expressed serious concern over persistent attacks on media and the shrinking space for independent media in the country. In a resolution passed at the two-day plenary session at Chennai last week, the union appealed to the democracy loving people in the country to raise their voice against […]
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The Congress hit out at the ruling BJP on Sunday over its Himachal Pradesh poll manifesto, terming it a “cut-copy-paste” of their five-year-old promises and in parts borrowed from the grand old party’s 2022 election document. BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday promised Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 33 per cent reservation for women in […]
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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has escalated the standoff with the Left democratic Front (LDF) Government by raking up the gold smuggling case to spite Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. In an interaction with presspersons in New Delhi, Khan said he had not interfered in governance. “But now when I see all […]
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By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Immoral, illegal, archaic, coercive, intimidating, criminal, absurd, reckless, brutal — even genocidal. These were some of the adjectives used by global leaders at the United Nations as they took to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to rail against US policy toward Cuba. Then yesterday, […]
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A special court on Friday held BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi and four others guilty of violation of the model code of conduct during the 2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The special court for cases involving MPs and MLAs later ordered their release on probation for a period of six months. Joshi was a […]
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of unemployment, saying the PM is handing over some thousand appointment letters when “millions of youth search for jobs”. Kharge said Modi came to power with a promise of two crore new jobs every year, but forget […]
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The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ “stand on the same level” and citizens should show equal respect to both. While unlike the national anthem there are no penal provisions or official instructions about singing or playing ‘Vande Mataram’, the song […]
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By Prabir Purkayastha The Morbi pedestrian suspension bridge over the Machchhu River collapsed on October 30, leading to the confirmed death of 141 persons and injuries to more than 100. In this column, I will not repeat what is widely known regarding one of the worst bridge disasters in India. The question that needs to […]
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Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) supremo, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has appealed to all the constitutional institutions in the country to help ‘save democracy’ from the hands of the BJP which have been ruling the country for the past eight-half years. He alleged that the BJP’s main motto is to dethrone the non-BJP ruled […]
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Media OutReach – 3 November 2022 – Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division today announced the release of the Decarbonisation Confidence Index Research report for the Asia-Pacific region. Vital and heavy industries including oil & gas, chemicals, power, construction and infrastructure, face enormous pressure to demonstrate meaningful decarbonising action. The report covers the constraints and opportunities for organisations to fulfil their ESG/sustainability commitments. The Decarbonisation […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sought a judicial commission under the Supreme Court to probe the Gujarat bridge collapse, which left at least 130 people dead. Accountability for the Morbi bridge collapse should be fixed, she said. The Bengal chief minister alleged that the BJP government in Gujarat has failed to help […]
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