Three IAS officers have resigned from the service in the last one month. Kannan Gopinathan, an AGMUT-cadre officer, and Sasikanth Senthil, a Karnataka-cadre officer, resigned over ‘lack of freedom of expression’ and abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi government.
Shiv Sena’s IT cell member Ramesh Solanki filed a complaint against Netflix India for “hurting Hindu sentiments” and showing an “incorrect picture of Hindus and India globally”.
India declared LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, his deputy Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, and fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as terrorists Wednesday under the new Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
India’s GDP has slipped to a six-year low, growing at five per cent in June quarter. Sectors like automobile, manufacturing and real estate are witnessing unprecedented slowdown.
Home Minister Amit Shah took a dig at the opposition in Maharashtra Monday saying that "if the BJP opens its door completely, except Sharad Pawar and Prithviraj Chavan, no one will remain in their respective parties".
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced mergers of 10 public sector banks, days after rolling back FPI surcharge and angel tax introduced in July.
After the abrogation of Article 370 and clampdown on Kashmir, several international media houses such as BBC, The Washington Post, Reuters and The New York Times reported on the tense atmosphere in J&K, protests by Kashmiris and detentions.
The final National Register of Citizens for Assam will be published Saturday. CM Sarbananda Sonowal has asked people not to panic and security deployment has increased across the state.
Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.
Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
It is one of the failures of our criminal justice system that closure can sometimes prove elusive for decades. Consider the Bhopal gas tragedy. However, while bowing one’s head respectfully to the families of the anti Sikh violence victims, unclear what this reopening of old cases will lead to in practical terms. It seems to be driven by politics more than a quest for justice. 2. The Editor once said that a few days after the 1984 violence ceased, when he met senior civil and police officials, there was a sense of shame, remorse, contrition. Many, including LG P G Gavai, were shunted out. We are becoming more coarse now.
It is one of the failures of our criminal justice system that closure can sometimes prove elusive for decades. Consider the Bhopal gas tragedy. However, while bowing one’s head respectfully to the families of the anti Sikh violence victims, unclear what this reopening of old cases will lead to in practical terms. It seems to be driven by politics more than a quest for justice. 2. The Editor once said that a few days after the 1984 violence ceased, when he met senior civil and police officials, there was a sense of shame, remorse, contrition. Many, including LG P G Gavai, were shunted out. We are becoming more coarse now.