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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’, […]
The tragedy in India is that an external threat to security has seen the state weaponise all forms of governance systems against its own citizens. India is rapidly digitising. There are good things and bad, speed-bumps on the way and caveats to be mindful of. The weekly column Terminal focuses on all that is connected and is […]
In their poll manifestos, both the parties have emphasised their commitments on socio-economic issues, addressing the farmers’ crisis, women’s empowerment, LPG cylinder prices, unemployment, inflation, health, and education. New Delhi: As elections unfold in five states, both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in their poll manifestos, have emphasised their commitments on socio-economic issues, […]
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs that was tasked to examine the three new criminal Bills has recommended that in the interest of gender neutral laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, which seeks to replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860, should include the criminalisation of adultery and retain Section 377. Along with the Bharatiya Nyaya […]
New Delhi: Five renowned academics, Ram Ramaswamy, Madhava Prasad, Sujata Patel, Deepak Malghan and Mukul Kesavan petitioned the Supreme Court in 2021 to regulate the search of electronic devices by agents of the state, usually the police. In the course of hearings, these petitioners have suggested a set of guidelines to be issued as directions by […]
New Delhi: In the very public tussle between the Narendra Modi government and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over how the national capital should be administered, Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar is used to being on the frontlines. He was in the news earlier this year, for sending files directly to lieutenant governor VK Saxena on […]
New Delhi: The solicitor general (SG) of India Tushar Mehta on Wednesday, November 1, defended the contentious electoral bonds scheme in the Supreme Court, saying they protect the privacy of citizens who make such donations to political parties. The top court began hearing petitions challenging the scheme, which were first filed five years ago in 2018, […]
The raids on journalists associated with NewsClick have resulted in the Delhi police’s Special Cell filing a case against only two members – founder-editor Prabir Purakayastha and HR head Amit Chakravarty – of the New Delhi-based news portal, but may have succeeded in paralysing the workflow of over 90 scribes. The Special Cell seized around 250 electronic devices, including […]
New Delhi: Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and at least three journalists have received a notification from Apple, saying that “Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers who are trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID ….” Here are the people confirmed to have been notified by Apple […]
New Delhi: Justice Biren Vaishnav of the Gujarat High Court apologised to his puisne judge, Justice Mauna Bhatt in open court on Wednesday (October 25), days after he had an outburst in open court and walked out. “What happened on Monday, shouldn’t have happened. I was wrong. I am sorry for that. We begin a new […]
Though not made a functionary of the ruling Biju Janata Dal yet, there is little to doubt that the former bureaucrat will hereafter publicly dabble in politics. Odisha has more than 200 serving IAS officers, but it is only one of them who is hogging all the headlines. Ever since the news broke late Monday […]
New Delhi: Two faculty members of an engineering college from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh have been suspended for asking a student to step down from the stage after he greeted the audience during a student induction ceremony with a loud ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan. Over the years, the religious slogan has gained political connotations with […]
This is the first in a series of pieces on the Supreme Court’s marriage equality judgment. This week, the Supreme Court delivered its judgement in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty v. Union of India, accepting the existence of the manifold disadvantages faced by non-heterosexual couples, while simultaneously refusing to express such disadvantages in the language of constitutional […]
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has transferred officers, including three who were coincidentally involved with and in charge of two of the twelve key audit reports that were presented in parliament during the monsoon session. These twelve CAG reports revealed corruption and irregularities in the functioning of several Union government ministries and departments. […]
‘Raiding’ an entire media organization and snatching the electronic devices of journalists without due process is a bad omen for a free press but a worse signal for the continuation of democracy. The arrest of Newsclick editor Prabir Purkayastha and the head of the portal’s HR department, Amit Chakravarty on terrorism charges has pushed the Modi government’s […]
New Delhi: In early morning raids on homes of several journalists and commentators associated with the news outlet Newsclick, Delhi police has started interrogations in matters “related to terror links” in a case involving the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The Wire has learned that the raids are in connection with FIR number 224/2023. This case was […]
Dev Anand, who was the first hero who projected the modernity that a newly independent nation looked forward to, would have been 100 today. In the 1950s, India looked to Jawaharlal Nehru to lead it to a new future. Millions migrated to the cities, which promised jobs, incomes and a life which shed the baggage […]
Bhubaneswar: Political temperature in Odisha has shot up with the expulsion of media baron and Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik from the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday, September 21. Though chief minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik also expelled Remuna MLA Sudhansu Sekhar Parida for indulging in “anti-people” activities, the focus was clearly on […]
New Delhi: Today is the last day in the term of Enforcement Directorate director Sanjay K. Mishra, who many extensions created a controversy for the Union government. Though the Supreme Court had earlier held Mishra’s extension to be “illegal”, it later allowed him to continue till September 15 “taking into consideration the larger public interest”. The […]
