By Dipankar Bhattacharya The startling recovery of more than fifty crore rupees in cash and gold from two flats belonging to an actress and reportedly a close aide to the now dropped TMC minister Partha Chatterjee has once again put the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal in the dock. The recovery of the cash […]
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By Nantoo Banerjee The Supreme Court verdict, last week (July 27), upholding the validity of inquiry, arrest and bail provisions of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), could not have come at a more appropriate time when as many as 122 sitting and ex-legislators are facing money laundering cases […]
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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut was arrested at midnight after over six hours of questioning in an alleged land scam case, news agency PTI reported. Raut, 60, alleged he was being targeted by the Centre to weaken Team Thackeray. Enforcement Directorate officials had searched Raut’s home for the most part of Sunday after he refused […]
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By Sarah Thanawala The Supreme Court’s judgment, in the case of Himanshu Kumar & Ors. versus State of Chhattisgarh &Ors., delivered on July 14 by a division bench comprising Justices A.M. Khanwilkar, who retired on Friday, and J.B. Pardiwala, has led to outrage. The bench dismissed the writ petition that alleged that the Chhattisgarh government […]
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By Harihar Swarup The BJP in Karnataka is leaving no stone unturned in achieving the permanent marginalization of Muslims in this once cosmopolitan state. A determined march towards realizing (more legitimacy and respectably than in 2018) to the BJP in 2023 has begun. The Bajrang Dal, Jangjaruti Samiti, and the Sri Ram Sene, despite minor […]
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By Dr. Soma Marla While nominating Smt Droupadi Murmu, the ruling BJP boasted as a saviour of tribal people. However, by proposing changes to Forest Rights Act, 2006, the Narendra Modi government is doing quite the opposite by subverting the interests of tribal people to benefit big companies. During the current monsoon session of Parliament […]
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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Myanmar’s military rulers on July 252 reported the execution of four pro-democracy activists — Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw. Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw were convicted under counter-terrorism laws in January while Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were convicted for […]
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By Sushil Kutty The best thing about the Supreme Court is that its left hand doesn’t know the right hand. So, if bail for Muhammad Zubair’s is court-given right, then bail for the PMLA accused can be denied. The enforcement directorate has overarching powers to arrest, charge and contest bail. On July 27, the Supreme […]
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By Prakash Karat Two judgments delivered by the Supreme Court in the course of a week have brought out starkly the contradictory trends on display in the highest court of the land. In the case of the multiple FIRs against Alt News journalist, Mohammed Zubair, a three-member bench consisting of Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice […]
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By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has raised the stakes higher in its running battle against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), claiming that at least 38 TMC MLAs were in close touch with the saffron party. Further, well-known pro-BJP actor Mithun Chakraborty told newspersons in Kolkata that at least 21 […]
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By Sushil Kutty Can anybody shout Parliament has gone to the dogs and get away with it? Will such liberty with the temple of democracy invite the wrath of Parliament, a privilege notice? But how does one get the blasphemous thought out of the head? For things have certainly gone from bad to worse for […]
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Members of The Premier Association of Financial Professionals® tap into post-pandemic strategies and experience next-level connectivity to learn, share and grow. PARK RIDGE, Ill. – Media OutReach – 27 July 2022 – The incomparable experience of in-person MDRT member gatherings for leading financial services professionals have returned after two years of virtual meetings, with the MDRT 2022 Annual Meeting in Boston, USA, from June 26-29, and the […]
The validity of a wide range of powers granted to the Enforcement Directorate under the amended law against money laundering — challenged by nearly 250 petitions — will come up for a decision before the Supreme Court today. The verdict by the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravi Kumar is likely […]
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West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee have been sent to the Enforcement Directorate’s custody till August 3. The two were arrested on July 23 in connection with a teacher recruitment scam. Earlier today, Chatterjee was taken to Kolkata airport from SSKM hospital in the city via a green corridor. After landing […]
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By Amitanshu Verma Few images have dominated the political discourse in recent times as much as the ‘bulldozer.’ For the Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’), it stands for its ruthless but popular mode of performing ‘justice’ on those it sees as criminals or enemies. For critics, the image of a bulldozer relentlessly demolishing structures is an […]
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By Sankar Ray The Sonali Bank Limited, the biggest state owned bank in Bangladesh is under controversy. The Bank management has been accused by All India Bank Employees’ Association general secretary C H Venkatachalam in a letter on 25 March 2022 of having trampled the laws of land in India to sack the general secretary […]
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By Amulya Ganguli An unprecedented event in January, 2018, saw four Supreme Court judges hold a Press conference – the first and last, in their view – to announce that democracy in India is in peril because “things are not in order” in the judiciary. Four years later, Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, has also voiced […]
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By Uttam Kumar Verma The Narendra Modi-led Union Government professes the credo of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’, popularized and propagandized by large sections of mainstream news media and the ideologues of English-speaking public officers who usually support government decisions in every step. This is another example of ‘Modinomics’, which comes up with new ideas on […]
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Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in connection with the school jobs scam, should be taken to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences tomorrow by air ambulance, the Calcutta High Court has said. The court also remarked that given his “immense power and position” as the senior-most cabinet minister, it will not be difficult for Mr […]
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The controversial law to link Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be scrapped. In his petition, Mr Surjewala has called the law “unconstitutional” and a violation of the rights to privacy and equality. The top court will hear the case tomorrow. […]
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By Hilary Goodfriend In January 2022, Xiomara Castro became Honduras’s first woman president, restoring electoral democracy to the country after more than a decade of dictatorship. Running with the leftist Liberty and Refoundation (LIBRE) party, Castro’s election breaks with the century-old two-party system that traded power between elites in the establishment National and Liberal Parties. […]
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By K Raveendran Congress hasn’t done any credit to itself by criticising prime minister Narendra Modi‘s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ call to hoist the national flag atop homes to mark the 75th year of India’s independence under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav campaign. It was somewhat uncharacteristic of him at this instance to mention that the […]
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By Sushil Kutty The rupee struck 80 and trespassed into the BJP’s ‘Margdarshak Mandal’ territory, and the opposition parties took note of it. But none from the BJP cared to respond, even when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe, tweeting “Amritkaal at 80”, and newly-minted Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala tweeted “Marg Darshak […]
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By Ambuja Raj The Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’) is widely denounced as an elite party most. justifiably so, as it has, through its two tenures of rule and much before that, engaged in the political sphere through a creedal backbone of Hindu, upper-caste interests. However, ever so often, the caste and class composition of BJP’s […]
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