A year ago the Supreme Court had placed a moratorium on filing of any fresh cases under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and suspended all continuing investigations in which sedition charges had been invoked.
Now, the Law Commission of India, in its 279th report that has been submitted to Union Law and Justice minister Arjun Ram Meghw...
If the attendance of various political parties at the inauguration of the new Parliament House is any indication, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's dream of vanquishing the Delhi services ordinance in Rajya Sabha is all set to be shattered.
Even if the Biju Janata Dal and YSR Congress abstain from voting in the Upper house of Parliament, th...
On May 11, two days before election results for the new Karnataka assembly were announced, JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy (HDK) said he was willing to form a government with either BJP or Congress if they agreed to his ‘conditions’. He implied that he wanted the chief minister’s post and then a free hand to rule.
Seven out of 10 exit polls had pred...
There may yet be no word on when, if at all, Rahul Gandhi will embark on the second leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra. But the former Congress president seems determined to continue his “quest for listening to the mann ki baat” of common citizens, a pitch that was at the core of his 4,000-km cross-country walkathon.
Sources close to the disqualified ...
While many pundits expected a hung assembly in the May 10 Karnataka elections, voters have delivered a decisive verdict. A resurgent Congress won 135 seats while BJP and JDS crashed to 66 and 19 seats, respectively. The three parties had respectively won 80, 104 and 37 seats in 2018.
The surge in the Congress seats was matched by a spike in its ...
Will Artificial Intelligence Fix (the Problems Confronting) Work? This is the theme of the latest report in the Microsoft series of annual Work Trend Index Reports. For this research report, Microsoft claims it surveyed 31,000 people in 31 countries. Additionally, it also analysed trillions of productivity-related signals from Microsoft’s own work ...
After a winding eight-year-long legal battle, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday (May 11) finally pronounced that the elected government of Delhi has “legislative and executive power over services such as Indian Administrative Services, or Joint Cadre services”, except in matters of public order, land, and police, whic...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest from the Islamabad High Court has come at a time the state finds itself broken and Pakistani society looks dysfunctional.
The political volcano building up in Pakistan since Khan grudgingly lost a vote of confidence in parliament in April 2022 has at last exploded in a way few expected ...
Shrewd, wily, calculating, Machiavellian, and a litany of other synonymous adjectives have often been used for Sharad Pawar in his over-six-decades-long career in active politics. How terribly short these labels fall to get the full measure of the octogenarian Maratha politician could be gauged on Tuesday (May 2) from the shock and suspicion that P...
For the first time in his political career, luck deserted veteran Karnataka politician Jagadish Shettar when he was denied a nomination for the upcoming Assembly election. Trying to make the most of an unexpected situation, Shettar has shifted from the Bharatiya Janata Party to the Congress, hoping to regain his luck.
It’s not for nothing that S...
The BJP high command under Narendra Modi and Amit Shah brooks no dissent. But as the Karnataka elections approach, BS Yediyurappa (BSY), the Lingayat strongman, has been repeatedly defying them and getting away with that.
On April 10, when the marathon selection process was still unfolding in New Delhi, he left the tense negotiations abruptly an...
High-speed trains of reasonable quality and comfort can be a middle-class dream and delight. Especially, in a country like India, where a burgeoning middle class is sick of travelling in smelly trains with dirty washrooms containing soiled toilet seats and often dried-up taps. No wonder, the news of Indian Railways launching the state-of-art Vande ...
The latest tiger census, released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday in the election-bound state of Karnataka, showed an impressive 3,167 big cats in India, 200 more than the last census in 2018.
The census report came on the occasion of 50th anniversary of Project Tiger. Launched on this day in 1973 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gand...
The Parliament Budget session, which concluded on April 6 with a near washout, saw the most spirited display of Opposition unity (particularly during its second leg) against the BJP-led Centre in recent years.
By the time Parliament was adjourned sine die, 20 Opposition parties had joined forces against the government, primarily over two issues ...
During the BJP’s 44th Foundation Day celebrations on Thursday (April 6), Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated the party’s commitment to tackling corruption, nepotism, and law and order challenges in the country. He slammed those with a ‘baadshahi’ (imperial/elitist) mindset for insulting the poor and marginalised since the BJP came to power in 2...
With the 2024 Lok Sabha election just a year away, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has set the ball rolling with a discreet effort to bring Opposition parties together without ruffling feathers like the previous attempts of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekara Rao or West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The DMK leader's speech was...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has been nursing ambition to emerge as the Opposition’s face of 2024 Lok Sabha elections with Congress support, may have to recalibrate his strategy in view of the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha MP following his conviction in a defamation case.
Nitish is of the firm opinion that the Congress ...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s hasty disqualification from Lok Sabha in the wake of his conviction in a criminal defamation case and the threat his two-year sentence poses to his electoral career a year before the 2024 general election have finally jolted his party into aggressive street politics. As many as 18 Opposition parties, including the Tri...
This had to happen. When one of the eight African cheetahs relocated to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park seven months ago died on March 27, alarm bells started ringing loudly in the environment and wildlife circles. Even the Supreme Court wanted to know about the presence of "experts" in the team which is monitoring the cheetah rehabilitation pr...
The BJP’s blitzkrieg against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is only expected to get shriller with a Gujarat court now sentencing him to two years in prison (though the sentence has been suspended for 30 days) in connection with a 2019 criminal defamation case. The verdict could technically pave the way for Rahul’s suspension from the Lok Sabha if his...
