By Rahil Nora Chopra The storm of disagreement between NDA allies BJP and JDU shows no signs abating, with both parties bitterly disputing over Nitish Kumar’s future vis-à-vis staying on as the Bihar Chief Minister beyond 2025. In this context, the chairman of the parliamentary board of Janata Dal (United), Upendra Kushwaha, has indicated his […]
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will challenge the Delhi court’s order setting aside the lookout circular issued against Aakar Patel, former Amnesty India chief, sources said. The central probe agency will file an appeal against the CBI court order this morning, the source added. Patel tweeted last evening that despite the court’s order granting […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty It is good that the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana has agreed to take up for hearing a pending petition challenging the Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018 .The 20th tranche of electoral bonds opened on April 1 this year and it will continue till April 10.It would have been better if […]
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By Ashis Biswas In the fight for the pole position among regional outfits, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) led by Mr Arvind Kejriwal has opened up a sizable lead over early front runner Trinamool Congress (TMC). What’s worse for TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, present trends do not favour her party. The energetic Chief Minister of […]
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By Sankar Ray Pakistan’s Prime Minister Kaptaan Imran Khan is in an existential crisis that pushed him personally into a political quagmire. His stature worsened further following the crucial observation by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial during the hearing of a suo moto matter following the dismissal of National Assembly of Pakistan […]
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Haridwar hatemonger Yati Narsinghanand — out on bail more than a month ago — today delivered another hate speech in national capital Delhi. The provocative speech, where he reiterated the call for use of weapons against Muslims, was delivered at a religious function in Burari, northeast Delhi, on Sunday. Arrested in January for organising an […]
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By K Raveendran The proposed rupee-rouble trade for oil will be a key ingredient, along with Russian insistence on rouble payments from European gas customers, in Putin’s sanctions-busting programme. The Biden administration has obviously seen the implications of an India-Russia oil deal and it is no surprise, therefore, that Washington is trying to put pressure […]
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By Sushil Kutty So there have been questions raised about the “actions and inactions of the CBI, regarding its credibility in some cases.” But even the Supreme Court of India cannot do much on its own on this serious institution required to run the country. All that CJI NV Ramana can do is recommend, ask […]
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Chief Justice of India NV Ramana today said the Central Bureau of Investigation, through its “actions and inactions” have often raised “questions on its credibility”. Speaking at a function of the Central agency, he also suggested that the need of the hour is to “reclaim social legitimacy and public trust” and the first step to […]
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By Prabhat Patnaik In the five days ending March 26, petrol and diesel prices in the country had been hiked four times, with more such daily hikes in the offing. On each occasion the hike had been by 80 paise per litre, so that the total increase during the week had been Rs 3.20 per […]
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By Amarjeet Kaur The Joint Platform of the Central Trade Unions and the independent Sectoral Federations and Associations congratulates the workers of all sectors, organised and unorganized, the govt. departments, the public sector, the private establishments, small-medium-micro enterprises, rural and urban working people, having participated in different ways, made a grand success of this two […]
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By Sushil Kutty Is the rope in the game of tug of war slipping through Mamata Banerjee’s hands? At least Mamata gives this impression as she once again asks every political party opposed to “BJP’s oppressive rule” to unite. The problem is the only fly in the ointment of opposition unity is Mamata herself! The […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two-day workers strike hit normalcy in many parts across India on March 28-29 that were reverberated with shouts of the striking workers demanding scraping of anti-worker policies of the Modi government. Even many government employees participated despite the threat of Essential Services management Act (ESMA) and the orders against their participating […]
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By Prabhat Patnaik The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia. […]
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By Indira Jaising Law performs both a normative function and a descriptive function. Criminal law constitutes offences which are punishable with imprisonment and/or fine. The law of rape is normatively defined in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code [IPC] as being a sexual act performed on a woman against her will, or without her […]
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The Supreme Court today refused an early hearing on pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict on the Karnataka government’s ban on hijabs inside classrooms. The petitioners had sought early listing of the issue citing upcoming school examinations. The Chief Justice of India chided Advocate Devdutt Kamat, who was representing the petitioner Muslim student Aishat […]
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By Harihar Swarup In the opaque ecosystem of the Congress, to be eyes and ears is as big a compliment as it gets. That’s what K C Venugopal is, party insiders say. The AICC general secretary in-charge of the organization is to Rahul Gandhi what the late Ahmed Patel was to Sonia Gandhi. Which means […]
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By Sushil Kutty The Modi Government will not topple Maha Vikas Aghadi. Not when it’s plagued with indecisiveness, and Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut cannot with his utterances dissuade the Modi Government from targeting MVA ministers and legislators, members of the extended Thackeray family. Not as long as there are central enforcement agencies […]
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By Sushil Kutty The Congress without the Gandhi family would not net a single MP seat in Kerala. A few MLA seats, perhaps, but not one of the 20 Lok Sabha seats. That is for sure. The Congress party’s Malayali vote-bank does not recognize Ghulam Nabi Azad or Kapil Sibal, forget Anand Sharma and Manish […]
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Police in Gurgaon have filed a case against former Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, former Formula 1 racer Michael Schumacher and 11 others for fraud and criminal conspiracy following a court order. The FIR was registered on the complaint of a Delhi woman, who accused them of fraud. Shafali Agarwal, a resident of Chattarpur Mini […]
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By Sushil Kutty The Karnataka hijab row now goes to the Supreme Court after the Karnataka High Court ruled that the hijab is not essential religious practice in Islam, and there’s clear and present danger that the row will escalate to the “national stage”, which was what the high court had feared would happen when […]
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By Ravi Nair The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act [AFSPA] was passed by the Indian Parliament on September 11, 1958. The Parliament was told it would last no longer than a year. In 2022, we are still waiting for that year to end. The Act contains immunity clauses for the armed forces even if they […]
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The United States has “deep concerns” about “alignment” between Russia and China, a senior US official said Monday after high-ranking US and Chinese officials met for seven hours on the Ukraine war and other security issues. Russia unleashed a barrage of airstrikes Monday on cities across Ukraine as the warring sides traded blame for a […]
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By Prakash Karat The US-led NATO’s attempts to seek the high moral ground against aggression by the “brutal dictator Putin” reeks of hypocrisy and double-standards. Going by the shrill pronouncements of President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson, this is the first time peace has been shattered in Europe after the Second World War and the […]
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