No more poll duty for govt officials; independence of EC can’t be compromised, rules SC
AltLipi Network
In a ruling that is bound to go a long way in maintaining the spirit of democracy in the country, the Supreme Court directed the Central and the state governments not to appoint persons holding...
Billionaires, crorepatis, lakhpatis and khakpati (zero asset have-nots) are often the talk of the table, be it high table, low table or no table of squatters on bare ground. They mark different levels of life....
Covid no deterrent, sectarian rivalry bears striking similarity with Germany of 1930
Gyaneshwar Dayal
Last year, when coronavirus was at its peak, a corona profile was doing the rounds on social media. “The pandemic was born in China, brought up in Italy, and embraced Islam when it landed in...
AAP - a party led by Arvind Kejriwal rose through the political corridors rapidly as a symbol of change in Indian Politics. Rubbing on people’s wishful thinking of the clean, anti-corruption vigilante brigade. A party...
Grim prospects for education: Learning loss to students can only be assessed post pandemic
BInny Yadav
If we have any more trouble in store for us post-pandemic we never know. But while the world is still grappling with the herculean challenges in the second year into the covid-19 epidemic amidst discovery...
Final blow to democracy in Delhi: AAP relegated to background, BJP to rule by proxy
Gyaneshwar Dayal
Delhi is no longer the same. With Parliament passing The National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021 the fulcrum of the Delhi government is shifted to the office of lieutenant governor (L-G), a Central...
Kin shouting in disgust for the treatment of their loved ones, or wailing inconsolably over the dead outside hospitals, craving for oxygen cylinders, ventilators and hospital beds from all directions and dead bodies piling up...
Not very far away from the National Capital, a green war of sorts is being fought between those who want to protect the rich biodiversity of the Aravallis hills and those who think exploiting the...
It’s not an overstatement to say that India is staring a catastrophe in the face, in the wake of a crisis around severewater scarcity. All efforts undertaken by the government in the past to overcome...
The good thing about imagination is that we own it and can mould it as per our whims and fancies. That we can let it fly in any frivolous direction makes us human beings. April...