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 ...
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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...
What was only expected has now been made formal – Justice Ranjan Gogoi will be the next Chief Justice of India when current Chief Justice Dipak Misra retires on October 2.
As per Supreme Court tradit...
~By Stephen David in Bengaluru
NO country in the world today has more young people than India has: a staggering 600 million!
And now a Cambridge, UK, based leadership guru of Indian origin is giving...
~By Rajeev Suri
“Nowadays 50 percent of the cases are of blackmailers,” stated Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, the new Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal. “Earlier, we used to issue notices. But...