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New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud, heading the five-Judge Constitution Bench hearing the slew of petitions challenging the reading down of Article 370, on Monday (August 28) observed that Article 35A while giving special rights to permanent residents of J&K denied fundamental rights to others. “Article 35A gave special rights and privileges to […]
New Delhi: In June 2018, the chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) at the time made an unusual representation to his boss, the cabinet secretary. The RAW chief’s office had just received a show cause notice from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged money laundering using a Kolkata based television channel involved in the […]
New Delhi: Former Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh Chaudhary, who killed his senior and three Muslims on a moving train on July 31, had abused, assaulted, and threatened a 45-year-old Muslim auto driver in Ujjain in 2016, Hindustan Times reported. Singh threatened one Wajid Khan over a span of several months in 2016-17. Khan filed a […]
State prosecutors in Uzbekistan have alleged that distributors of an Indian-manufactured cough syrup that killed 65 children in the country bribed local officials with $33,000 to skip mandatory testing. According to a report in Reuters, this was revealed in court on Wednesday (August 16). The number of deaths linked to the cough syrup cited by the […]
In an interview with Karan Thapar, former RBI governor general Raghuram Rajan points out flaws in the Union government’s claim that India has become a mobile phone exporter after the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme was introduced. Apart from questioning the numbers about net exports, Rajan also asks if the government’s assumption that low-skill manufacturing […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 death toll is almost 10 times its official tally, and the country is estimated to have had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths until December 2021 – 4.7 million. This is one of the conclusions of the much-anticipated WHO report on the world’s COVID-19 excess death estimates. Of its 4.7 million deaths, 0.83 million […]
Once captured by the ubiquitous social media lens and flashed everywhere, the evil that men do lives after them. In 2017, Shambhulal Regar etched his name into social media’s “most watched” list by hacking to death and then setting on fire Afrazul Khan, a migrant labourer, for the unpardonable crime of being Muslim, even as […]
New Delhi: August 11 marks 100 days since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur – and 100 days since the state government first shut down the internet. The high court has ordered a “partial restoration” of internet services – but, as experts have pointed out, that partial restoration meets the needs only of a very small […]
– Prem Shankar Jha Nine years into Narendra Modi’s reign as prime minister, one cannot but admire the consummate skill with which he has turned silence and enigma into his most effective political weapon. INDIA, the newly formed opposition coalition, has roundly condemned the BJP’s failure to prevent the civil war that is now raging […]
New Delhi/ Kochi: Nirva, the last African cheetah in the wild in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, is still at large. Authorities have not been able to locate and dart her despite searching for more than a week now. Some cheetahs in Kuno died due to maggot infections and authorities have been subjecting all the remaining […]
English Heritage is now selling what it calls “the best thing since sliced bread” at 13 of its sites – brown bread ice cream, inspired by a Georgian recipe. The announcement of the flavour mentions several more outlandish Georgian flavours trialled by English Heritage before it landed on brown bread, such as Parmesan and cucumber. English Heritage is […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday (August 8) disqualified former prime minister Imran Khan from holding public office for five years after his conviction in a corruption case last week. A trial court in Islamabad had on Saturday sentenced Khan to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of Pakistani Rs 100,000 for […]
New Delhi: Oscar winning documentary The Elephant Whisperers has made headlines once again, not for its win, but because of accusations of maltreatment against the makers of the film, the Hindu reported. Bomman and Bellie, the two mahouts who star in the film, have said that they were subjected to difficult situations during the making of the documentary, and had […]
New Delhi: Another cheetah has died in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park. So far, six adult cheetahs and three cubs have died, taking the number of deaths to nine. A monitoring team found Tiblisi – aka Dhatri, a female brought to Kuno from Namibia – dead on the morning of August 2, according to a press […]
Mumbai: On July 31, as most passengers were still asleep on the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express, constable Chetan Bachu Singh allegedly strangulated his colleague Aman Ghanshyam Acharya, snatched his service rifle and shot his senior Tikaram Meena from a point-blank range. Singh then ran amok between the three-tier AC coaches, pantry car, and sleeper coaches of the […]
On July 20, 2023, the film directed by Vinay Shukla, While We Watched was previewed at the IFC Center in New York City. There was a long queue outside the theatre and the subject of the film, Magsaysay award winning journalist Ravish Kumar stood there surrounded by fans who were chatting with him and taking selfies. He […]
New Delhi: Data presented by the Union law ministry in parliament shows that the number of cases disposed of by Supreme Court constitution benches has decreased over the decades since independence. While the decade between 1960 and 1969 saw the apex court’s constitution benches dispose of a record 956 cases, the time period between 2010 and […]
This article was first published on The India Cable – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To subscribe to The India Cable, click here. In times of crashing labour rights, the new Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023 (or RGW Act, as I will be referring to) […]
Kochi: Efforts are on, but authorities are yet to capture the last two cheetahs currently in the wild in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, sources associated with Project Cheetah told The Wire on Friday, July 28. Officials have been darting all free-ranging cheetahs that were released in Kuno as part of Project Cheetah, and bringing them back to […]
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scared of INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance). The Bharatiya Janata Party is under pressure,” Nitish Kumar told reporters at Patna on Wednesday, July 26, at the sidelines of a government function. When it was pointed out that Modi had compared INDIA with the East India Company and the Indian Mujahideen, the […]
