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New Delhi: In December last year, the Janata Dal (United) [JD(U)]’s National Council had authorised the Bihar chief minister and party chief Nitish Kumar to take the lead in bringing opposition parties together to take on the dominant Bharatiya Janata Party in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Although Kumar has been meeting various opposition leaders and attending […]
New Delhi: Nearly two years after being picked for the job, former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday night as the US ambassador-designate. The US embassy’s Twitter account posted a welcoming tweet for Garcetti. “Namaste, Ambassador-Designate Eric Garcetti! We’re thrilled to welcome you to #IncredibleIndia and work with you to build […]
New Delhi: A German foreign ministry spokesperson has said that nation has taken note of the court verdict against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his suspension from parliament – leading to a response from Union law minister Kiren Rijiju and a counter-response from the Congress. Germany is India’s largest trade partner in Europe and the largest […]
The Hindu has reported that the Jammu and Kashmir police have now arrested two persons Amit Pandya and Jai Sitapara, who had accompanied Gujarat ‘conman’ Kiran Patel during his J&K trip which saw him get arrested. As reported by The Wire earlier, both, Pandya and Sitapara, along with one Trilok Singh, from Rajasthan, were let off by the Police […]
New Delhi: In a 2023 update to its ‘Academic Freedom Index,’ the V-Dem Institute has noted that India is among 22 countries and territories out of 179 in the world, where institutions and scholars enjoy ‘significantly less freedom today than 10 years ago.’ The update focuses on detailed comparative studies between the decline in academic freedom […]
The public debt of Gujarat has jumped to Rs 3.40 lakh crore from Rs 3.20 lakh crore recorded at the end of March last year. The opposition and experts from the state have raised concerns over ballooning debt and falling revenues. Last year, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had warned the state against rising public debt, noting […]
Annie Ernaux, the winner of the literature Nobel in 2022, at an event during her India tour, said in no uncertain terms that censorship in literature is a tragedy. Encouraging young writers, Ernaux added that they should have the collective consciousness to fight censorship. In the current Indian context, censorship is no longer limited to writers’ published work. […]
Hundreds of voters, particularly Muslims and Dalits, in Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar constituency could lose their spot on the voters’ list with the Election Commission initiating action against them on the basis of a contentious complaint by activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The complaint, which the opposition has described as malicious and communally motivated, was […]
A district court in Gujarat has sentenced a 22-year-old man to life imprisonment for illegally transporting cattle. In a unique order, the Principal District Judge Samir Vinodchandra Vyas said that all the problems of the earth will be solved if cow slaughter is stopped. The legal news websites LiveLaw and Bar and Bench have reported on this November 2022 […]
Predicting the outcome of national elections can be a mug’s game. Polls are often wrong, and second-guessing how people will vote months down the line can leave even the most savvy election specialist with egg on their face. In short, there are too many unknowns – the state of the economy, late political shocks and even […]
A few weeks ago, the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) sent out a communication to all alumni containing two significant announcements. The first announced a change in design to the institution’s logo and website (more on this later). The second announcement was a final decision on a topic that had […]
That the chilling murder of 25-year-old Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner, Aaftab Poonawala, received widespread media coverage is no surprise. As if the details of the case are not horrifying enough, however, a large section of TV media also used the event to further anti-Muslim narratives, like that of ‘love jihad’, given the couple’s […]
On October 10, The Wire published an exclusive report detailing how Instagram recently took down a video of Uttar Pradesh resident Prabhakar Maurya worshipping a statue of state chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The social media company’s justification for removing the post, provided to the owner of the anonymous satire page, ‘Superhumans of Cringetopia’, said it […]
While addressing a meeting of state environment ministers on September 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “urban Naxals” had stalled the work of Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). To know who the Prime Minister is calling “urban Naxals”, and why there has been a delay in the completion of SSP, it is important to revisit the history […]
Washington: The World Bank on Thursday projected a growth rate of 6.5% for the Indian economy for the fiscal year 2022-23, a drop of 1% from its previous June 2022 projections, citing deteriorating international environment. In its latest South Asia Economic Focus released ahead of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World […]
Chandigarh: Over nine months after India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat died in a helicopter crash, it’s a near-certainty in military circles presently that the government is highly unlikely to nominate his successor. Several senior retired and serving service officers, security officials and analysts reasoned that having not appointed a CDS to follow […]
New Delhi: In his testimony to the US Senate, whistleblower Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko on Tuesday disclosed that the person he believed with high confidence was a ‘foreign agent’ of India was placed in Twitter to see if the company was willing to concede to the BJP government’s demands for censorship and better understand its plans. In […]
New Delhi: A Right to Information request has revealed that Silly Souls, the controversial Goa restaurant and bar located at a private home in Assagao, Goa – now the subject of a libel suit by BJP leader Smriti Irani against Congress leaders – has a food license issued by the state Directorate of Food and Drugs […]
The Prime Minister had made the assertion during a visit to Dhaka last year, triggering a debate over the claim. An RTI request was then filed seeking the details of his arrest, jail stay and release. During his visit to Dhaka on Bangladesh’s 50th Independence anniversary last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that […]
On Monday, August 15, the Gujarat government released 11 convicts who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder case during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. The convicts walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government approved their application for remission. Following their conviction on January 21, 2008 by a […]
