A girl student who shouted anti-BJP slogans on board a flight in which one of her co-passengers was the state party president was arrested when the plane landed in Tuticorin.
The student, who is re...
Army Chief Bipin Rawat said on Tuesday (Sep 4) that Major Leetul Gogoi will “be dealt with sternly in case moral turpitude and corruption are proved”.
On May 23, Major Leetul Gogoi was detained by ...
Above: Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha activists at a demonstration in Lucknow/Photo: UNI
With the startling news of these courts being set up in various parts of UP, there is fear that these “kang...
The BJP’s art of labelling has termed dissent anti-national, pro-communist, terrorist and Maoist. Patriotism is a uniform that only the BJP can don with ease
~By Shiv Visvanathan
Every law ...
Safe Distance
Visitors to the finance ministry seeking an appointment with the minister in charge, Arun Jaitley, are first cautioned with an unusual request. Even politicians who know Jaitley well ...
Keep amendments to the Constitution bare minimum, elections for Lok Sabha and 12 state assemblies can be held simultaneously to start with, says law panel report
A day before the end of his term as...
Berating the country, or a particular aspect of it, cannot and should not be treated as sedition; avoid unwarranted restrictions on free speech, says Law Commission
Days after the Supreme Court ter...
There was widespread condemnation of arrests of the five activists on Thursday, with politicians, civil libertarians and ordinary citizens lashing out at the government and many equated it with a thro...
India’s central banker’s admission points to demonetisation as an ill-advised misadventure
It took nearly two years for the Reserve Bank of India to come out with a report whose inference is that t...
The petition in the Bhima Koregaon case was filed by academics Romila Thapar, Prabhat Patnaik, Devaki Jain and Satish Deshpande. The petition said the arrests were “arbitrary” and were made without ev...