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New Delhi: Justice Biren Vaishnav of the Gujarat High Court apologised to his puisne judge, Justice Mauna Bhatt in open court on Wednesday (October 25), days after he had an outburst in open court and walked out. “What happened on Monday, shouldn’t have happened. I was wrong. I am sorry for that. We begin a new […]
Though not made a functionary of the ruling Biju Janata Dal yet, there is little to doubt that the former bureaucrat will hereafter publicly dabble in politics. Odisha has more than 200 serving IAS officers, but it is only one of them who is hogging all the headlines. Ever since the news broke late Monday […]
New Delhi: Two faculty members of an engineering college from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh have been suspended for asking a student to step down from the stage after he greeted the audience during a student induction ceremony with a loud ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan. Over the years, the religious slogan has gained political connotations with […]
This is the first in a series of pieces on the Supreme Court’s marriage equality judgment. This week, the Supreme Court delivered its judgement in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty v. Union of India, accepting the existence of the manifold disadvantages faced by non-heterosexual couples, while simultaneously refusing to express such disadvantages in the language of constitutional […]
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has transferred officers, including three who were coincidentally involved with and in charge of two of the twelve key audit reports that were presented in parliament during the monsoon session. These twelve CAG reports revealed corruption and irregularities in the functioning of several Union government ministries and departments. […]
‘Raiding’ an entire media organization and snatching the electronic devices of journalists without due process is a bad omen for a free press but a worse signal for the continuation of democracy. The arrest of Newsclick editor Prabir Purkayastha and the head of the portal’s HR department, Amit Chakravarty on terrorism charges has pushed the Modi government’s […]
New Delhi: In early morning raids on homes of several journalists and commentators associated with the news outlet Newsclick, Delhi police has started interrogations in matters “related to terror links” in a case involving the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The Wire has learned that the raids are in connection with FIR number 224/2023. This case was […]
Dev Anand, who was the first hero who projected the modernity that a newly independent nation looked forward to, would have been 100 today. In the 1950s, India looked to Jawaharlal Nehru to lead it to a new future. Millions migrated to the cities, which promised jobs, incomes and a life which shed the baggage […]
Bhubaneswar: Political temperature in Odisha has shot up with the expulsion of media baron and Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik from the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday, September 21. Though chief minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik also expelled Remuna MLA Sudhansu Sekhar Parida for indulging in “anti-people” activities, the focus was clearly on […]
New Delhi: Today is the last day in the term of Enforcement Directorate director Sanjay K. Mishra, who many extensions created a controversy for the Union government. Though the Supreme Court had earlier held Mishra’s extension to be “illegal”, it later allowed him to continue till September 15 “taking into consideration the larger public interest”. The […]
Around the world, narcotics trafficking has been found to be the most resilient and adaptive crime. In India, too, the pattern of narcotics trade and consumption has broadened into a bewildering kaleidoscope, manifesting itself in heightened organised crime, a narco-terror nexus and an exponential rise in substance abuse. Unravelling the proportions of the narco trade […]
New Delhi: The number of students who committed suicide in India rose by 70% between 2011 and 2021, Moneycontrol reported. Today (September 10) is World Suicide Prevention Day. In India, its observance comes just days after coaching centre hub Kota recorded its highest number of student suicides since 2015 and two Dalit students at IIT Delhi committed suicide within two months. Data […]
New Delhi: A day before the end of summit, G20 members reached a compromise over the language over the Ukraine war, to allow for the release of a joint communique at the end of the summit, with India proposing a new text overnight which has led to a consensus. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he wanted to convey the “good news” […]
Lately, sanatan dharma has become a rallying point for more than one reason. When the national media was busy with the aftershocks of Udhayanidhi Stalin’s statement of eradicating sanatan dharma, another controversy related to sanatan dharma was raging in Gujarat. The core issue was a mural in a Swaminarayan temple at Salangpur in Saurashtra, in which Hanuman was […]
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) refused the government’s proposal to extract Rs 2-3 lakh crore from its balance sheet in 2018 for pre-election expenditure ahead of Lok Sabha polls in the following year, former central bank deputy governor Viral Acharya said in a new prelude to his book, Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India. According […]
India is rapidly digitising. There are good things and bad, speed-bumps on the way and caveats to be mindful of. The weekly column Terminal focuses on all that is connected and is not – on digital issues, policy, ideas and themes dominating the conversation in India and the world. At the Internet Freedom Foundation’s Annual privacy conference […]
New Delhi: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is planning to demolish the city’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (SVP) Stadium, the Ahmedabad Mirror has reported, quoting an unnamed senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The SVP stadium is not to be confused with Ahmedabad’s more popular Narendra Modi Stadium, which was formerly known as the Sardar Patel Stadium and colloquially as […]
New Delhi: Union minister for parliamentary affairs Pralhad Joshi on Friday, September 1, said that a committee has been formed to examine the possibility of a system of “One Nation, One Election”, under which simultaneous elections would be held for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. The idea of simultaneous elections is not new and has […]
New Delhi: Union minister for parliamentary affairs Pralhad Joshi has announced on Thursday (August 31) that a special session of parliament will be held next month from September 18 to 22. In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), Joshi said that the special session will include five days. “Special Session of Parliament (13th Session of 17th […]
The Gujarat government has increased the reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the state’s panchayats and urban local bodies from 10% to 27%. This decision was made based on recommendations of the K.S. Jhaveri Commission, which was formed based on a 2022 Supreme Court order on deciding the level of OBC quotas in Gujarat. […]
