The question is, will you need to bring along a valid passport to cross over to another state some day soon? Right now, if you’re thinking of crossing the Assam border to a neighbouring state, you’re most likely to run into a roadblock or two. Just look at the aftermath of the NRC jhamela! According […]
Sahibganj, Jharkhand: Read this. A mob attacks a college. Police are called. The police chase some of them away. Greater mob comes back. More police arrive. Mob throws stones at policeman, damages police vehicles, injures a sub inspector, 2 tribal boys also badly beaten and hospitalized. Witnesses give names of ring leaders, file cases with […]
Kochi: In a mischevious attempt by certain hardline anti-constitutional groups to harrass the Christians, one MS Anoop challenged the ‘constitutionality’ of Catholic Canon law. The Kerala High Court has imposed costs of 25,000 rupees on a petitioner challenging the constitutionality of the Catholic Church’s Code of Canons and its applicability in India. The Code of […]
केंद्रीय जाँच एजेंसी (यानी सीबीआई) ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट की वकील आनंद ग्रोवर और भारत की भूतपूर्व एडिशनल सॉलिसटर जनरल इंदिरा जयसिंह के दिल्ली और मुंबई स्थित घरों पर छापेमारी की है। आरोप है कि इन्होंने दिल्ली स्थित एनजीओ लॉयर्स कलेक्टिव के लिए विदेशी चंदे के नियमों का उल्लंघन किया है। दिल्ली में सीबीआई ने 54-निज़ामुद्दीन […]
Rethink about selling AI, BSNL and MTNL; Strategic assets must remain in Indian hands Privatisation of these companies will leave India at a disadvantage as it is not without any major security implications that they will be taken. These are the decisions no other country has taken says journalist Mantoo Banerjee in a recent article. […]
The people of Mizoram once again rejected the overtures of the BJP, giving their Lok Sabha candidate less than one percent of the votes polled! After a big win at the 2018 Assembly (MLA) elections, the ruling party Mizo National Front (MNF) continued its success route in the small hill state of Mizoram by securing […]
The Voters in Sikkim keep close the integrity of the Himalayan state, by once again keeping out the ‘outside parties. The new Chief Minister will most probably be P S Golay, and the leader of the Opposition will most probably be Pawan Chamling. Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) party is all set to form the […]
In what is being widely seen as yet another attack on privacy and free speech, BJP led government is sneaking in new social media rules that actually amountbto stifling free speech before the upcomung national elections in India. Mozilla, the not-for-profit entity behind the web browser Firefox, has called out the Narendra Modi government’s perceived […]
The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey attended a closed door meeting of women. One of them presented him a feminist poster which read ‘Smash Brahmanical Patrirachy’ . The unfortunate man posed for a photo with the group of women writers and journalists, and the poster is sort of dangling in his hands. He’s not holding it up […]
New Delhi: Why is the Modi government asking private news channels not to use the word ‘Dalit’? What was missed out by the news channels is that in January this year, a ‘petitioner’ had approached the Gwalior High court, and received an order banning government agencies from using the word Dalit on the grounds that […]
FIR No. 0004 of 2018, filed with Vishrambaug police station in Pune after the January 1 Bhima-Koregaon violence, names five people booked for promoting enmity between groups, punishable by up to five years’ jail. it does not name any of the five activists picked up on Tuesday. Of the original five, only Sudhir Dhawale, a […]
The Delhi High Court has pointed out irregularities in the way certain human rights activists and journalists have been ‘arrested’ by the Maharashtra Police. What’s happening? In at least this one case, it is evident that something strange and sinister has been set in motion. With the Maharashtra police unable to explain the specific offence […]
