There was a report of one Indian Army and one BSF jawan being killed in ceasefire violation by Pakistan about a week back. Cross-border firing is a regular phenomenon, especially along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. There were several such violations in the month of November and another jawan was killed on…
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Imprisonment basically consists of restrictions on movement as well as on freedoms of speech, expression and association. Prison walls, however, will only be able to restrict the movements of a person successfully, but fail to do so in curtailing one’s imagination. A thinking person’s imagination blossoms literally everywhere – be it in a desert or…
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The Supreme Court in its much-awaited judgment on Rafale petitions given on Friday, December 14, 2018, the last day before the winter recess of the Court, has given no glory to the learned judges, especially the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as the judgment seems to be an attempt to avoid all the contentious…
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The judgement of the Supreme Court dismissing our petition seeking an independent court monitored investigation into the Rafale deal is as shocking as it is disappointing. We had gone to court after making a detailed complaint to the CBI pointing out the following: Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie& @pbhushan1 issue a statement on Supreme Court’s judgment…
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The results of the Assembly elections in the three states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — have underlined the need for total unity of the Opposition parties, including the Congress, BSP and the Samajwadi Party. The Congress has done exceedingly well in Chhattisgarh on its own, but in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, the Party…
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A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph said that the report dated January 26, 2018 submitted by Justice H S Bedi (Retd.) shall not be furnished to petitioners until further order in the Gujarat fake encounters case. The Special Task Force, under the supervision of Justice…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost his mojo after the devastating reverses faced by the BJP in the three of its ruling states — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. The Modi magic is gone and ominous signals have been given to the BJP by the people of the Hindi-speaking states five months before the scheduled…
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Things were not the same anymore. With much trepidation, Muhammad Yousaf Pujwala, 45, stepped inside the forest village Rasana in Kathua district — which has been winter home to past several generations of his ancestors — early this month. Amid threats — which followed ugly communal politics over his eight-year-old daughter’s brutal gangrape and murder…
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The Congress’s revival after having hit the lowest point in its history in 2014 is the big takeaway from the assembly election results. By the same token, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) hope of ushering in a Congress-mukt (free) India has been dashed, along with its dream of reigning from panchayats to parliament for the…
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The police of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh has succeeded to eliminate a good number of Maoist cadres, but they could not quite break the backbone of Maoists in Chhattisgarh, despite severe repression using the state machinery and putting a number of innocent people in jail for being sympathisers of the Maoists. While the police…
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