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With the movie Origin, released last month across the US, Dr B.R. Ambedkar has made an entry on the big screen in Hollywood. The film directed by Ava DuVernay is based on Isabel Wilson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. As Ambedkar’s writings have spread across the world, there is a new-found interest in […]
Turning points have come but rarely in the ten years of the Narendra Modi government, given its astounding success in maintaining an iron-clad, surveillance-driven grip on every institution in the country. The Supreme Court verdict of February 15 that outlawed electoral bonds is emphatically one of them, and needs to be recognised as another chance […]
New Delhi: Government data has revealed that 2.38 lakh educated people in Gujarat are unemployed and have registered themselves for employment with various departments. Even more stark is the number that only 32 young people got government jobs in the state in the last two years, The New Indian Express has reported. This data was revealed in response […]
The release of new FAQs (frequently asked questions) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on January 30 and now superseded by another version on February 7 is a very welcome step. Importantly, this is the first time ECI has released at least some technical details about the electronic voting machines (EVMs). The clarification that […]
Jalandhar/Chandigarh: In the wake of the scheduled ‘Delhi Chalo’ farmers’ protest on February 13, the Haryana government on Saturday evening announced the suspension of mobile internet services from February 11 to February 13 in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa including Dabwali districts. Farmers from Punjab and Haryana under the banner of the newly […]
New Delhi: Highway construction slowed down during the current fiscal year, and has met only 45% of its target of 13,800 km, as per a news report in LiveMint. This is despite the Union government earmarking a record Rs 2.16 trillion capex in the first nine months of the year. The report quoted data from the Ministry of Road […]
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on February 6 conducted searches at premises connected to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal secretary, Bibhav Kumar, an Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament, N.D. Gupta, and other leaders associated with the party. This is the latest in the central agencies long list of action against leaders and […]
This news report is a collaboration between The Wire and Guwahati-based news portal, The CrossCurrent. Guwahati/New Delhi: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma used state government funds amounting to crores of rupees to hire helicopters and chartered planes to campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party, both within and outside the state, Right to Information replies from the Assam government […]
New Delhi: The US government has held back delivery of 31 MQ-9A Sea Guardian and Sky Guardian drones to India until New Delhi carries out a “meaningful investigation” into the conspiracy to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, The Wire has learned. Pannun, who hold dual US and Canadian citizenship, is a New York-based Khalistan activist accused by India […]
New Delhi: Individual tax collections in India have surged by a whopping 76% between 2018-19 and 2022-23. But, critically, the corporate sector share in that tax collected has inched by only a fraction, just 24.45%. Personal income tax collection, which includes Securities Transaction Tax, stood at Rs 4,73,179 crore in 2018-19. It increased to Rs 8,33,307 […]
New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was stopped from visiting the Batadrava Than during his ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Assam’s Nagaon district on Monday morning. The Congress said that Gandhi was meant to visit the birthplace of the 15th-century Vaishnavite religious leader, Srimanta Sankardev. He had been granted permission by the temple management committee […]
On January 12th, Microsoft acknowledged a cyberattack on its corporate systems by a Russian state-sponsored group known as “Midnight Blizzard.” The perpetrators, believed to be connected to Russia’s SVR intelligence agency, accessed a limited number of Microsoft employee email accounts, including those of high-level management and cybersecurity and legal personnel. The investigation revealed that the […]
Iran claimed it struck bases belonging to Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni militant group in Pakistan, in a cross-border attack Tuesday. It comes after Iran launched similar attacks on Syria and Iraq over the past several days. The missile attacks took place on the day that caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwar met with the Iranian foreign minister, H. Amira-Abdaloahian, […]
New Delhi: In an unusual move, the Gujarat State Police Accountability Complaints Authority (SPCA) had found only one among 839 complaints it had received during 2022 within its jurisdiction, Right to Information (RTI) replies have shown. A recent report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), which collated RTI replies from various SPCAs, has highlighted that […]
The premise of three friends coming of age in an Excel Entertainment film, is almost a ritual for Hindi film fans every few years. The production house burst onto the scene with Dil Chahta Hai (2001) – following three friends from their early 20s to their late 20s; and then followed it up with Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), […]
New Delhi: A total of 78 opposition MPs were suspended from both houses of parliament on Monday, December 18, taking the total of suspended MPs since December 15 to 92. While 33 MPs were suspended in the Lok Sabha, 45 were suspended in the Rajya Sabha. On December 14, a total of 14 MPs (13 in Lok […]
Now that as many as 14 Lok Sabha MPs, including senior ones like DMK’s Kanimozhi and Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien, have all been suspended, let’s get the facts clear. They were all protesting vociferously against the Union home minister’s failure to ensure security of parliament on December 13. The Bharatiya Janata Party […]
New Delhi: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released the annual crime report, and the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) report, on Sunday, December 3, when the results of the Assembly elections in four states were announced. Last year, it was published in August. According to the Hindu, the report provides a comprehensive overview of the […]
A key player in many significant global events of the 1970s, Kissinger’s legacy is deeply controversial. Some saw him as little more than a war criminal. “Dr. Henry Kissinger, a respected American scholar and statesman, died today at his home in Connecticut,” Kissinger Associates announced in a statement late on Wednesday, November 29. ‘War criminal’ […]
New Delhi: On Wednesday, November 29, federal prosecutors in the US filed explosive charges in a New York court which detailed how a plot to kill a US citizen who runs a pro-Khalistan organisation, ordered by an “identified Indian government employee”, was thwarted by US law enforcement agencies. The target, identified in the indictment only as ‘the Victim’, […]
