When the Madras High Court suggested that election officials could be booked under murder charges for not taking enough precautions against coronavirus during the just concluded Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had...
With the second wave of corona virus peaking in the country people are coming in its vice-like grip in millions. While many are getting infected with the deadly virus, mortality rate too is on the...
The complete shutdown witnessed on March 26 in the wake of nation-wide bandh called by farmers’ union reflects the deep agony agriculturists in the country are going through. The bandh call was given to mark...
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...
The Supreme Court has hit the nail on the head over the curiously generous reservation policy adopted by some states on March 19 when it sought to know for how many generations the reservations would...
Over four-and-a-half years ago on a visit to Srinagar when Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was running the government in coalition with the BJP, I said to a student audience at Kashmir University's media studies department...
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...
In the latest twist to the ongoing assembly elections in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee was injured in what appeared to be a freak accident. However, going by the incumbent chief minister’s version, it’s anything but...
Nepal, the Himalayan nation which looks like a band-aid on India on the map, itself stands bruised and battered today in need of an immediate first-aid. As if the unsavoury developments of the past few...
It’s rare to see political leadership to acknowledge their mistakes. Still rare is a political leader owning up the blunders of his/her predecessors. Against this backdrop, Rahul Gandhi’s statement that the Emergency, imposed by Indira...
