Bihar govt relaxed prohibition law last year to reduce burden on courts. But over 1.5 lakh cases of 1st-time offenders still stuck, largely due to clash between Patna HC & state govt.
Forced to run from Maharashtra by rationalists' open challenge to prove his 'chamatakar', 'godman' Dhirendra Shastri is back among his believers in Bageshwar Dham. Bail to cancer cure, devotees are flocking him for everything.
Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.
For years, experts have argued the case for rethinking the Centre-state relationship regarding the police. The time to debate police financing is running out.
Advani's rath yatra left a legacy of violence in the form of riots. Rahul Gandhi’s yatra has been staked on the power of nonviolence. On this yardstick, Bharat Jodo Yatra is a winner.
Jharkhand kids learning archery don’t recognise Dipti Kumari, the award-winning archer waiting on some help from the Hemant Soren govt. ‘I just need one chance.’
In such a buzz-creating yatra, not one new Congress leader was born. Pramod Mahajan, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Modi emerged from Advani's and Manohar Joshi’s yatras.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
COMMENTS