The docking of an Indian ship from Haldia at Chittagong port is an amazing breakthrough in the on-off bilateral relationship. So why are Modi and Hasina silent about it?
Home Minister Amit Shah said that people won't have to submit citizenship documents under the NPR exercise, which begins on 1 April, and no one will be marked ‘doubtful’.
Congress' Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Digvijaya Singh, SP's Akhilesh Yadav and CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury have all used Amit Shah's 'chronology' phrase in different contexts.
Sixth Schedule allows constitution of Autonomous District Councils in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura & Mizoram to safeguard the rights of tribal population.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
Procedures need to be established that for tough laws like sedition, uapa etc action cannot be taken unless the CP or equivalent does not sign-off on it. There won’t be too many cases, so it should not add to their workload. Whenever, it is conclusively established that the laws were applied maliciously, there needs to be consequences for the sr officer
One of the costs – collateral damage – of the pandemic is that it has hurt other medical activities. Treatment of serious ailments. Even the immunisation programme for infants and children. The Delhi government should act with a sense of responsibility and discernment. Perhaps this is an issue on which the LG should overrule it.
An astute way should have been found by such a great nation to wriggle out of the Assam Accord. That was 1985, this is 2021. Two million – in my view – pucca citizens, pushed into a dark penumbra of non belonging. The mischievous lad in me is happy that more than half are Hindus. That will preclude drastic action. As will the solemn assurances, repeatedly tendered, to the Bangladesh government that there will be no deportations. As an Assamese, propriety demanded that CJI Ranjan Gogoi recuse himself from the hearings, instead of driving this process relentlessly forward. 2. CAA and a national NRC will harm India’s place in the neighbourhood. Fine column by Ambassador K C Singh in Asian Age on our growing isolation.
George Floyd’s family has received $ 17 million in compensation. Countless times we hear of Muslim men being acquitted of terror charges, sometimes after a few decades. NSA – the Allahabad High Court has chucked so many cases out of the window. PSA in Kashmir, it would be prudent not to even talk about. UAPA, designed your deny bail. 2. A government must be feared by people, true, mainly those who break the law. Much more, it should be respected. The organs of the state who wield so much power should be seen to be acting with a sense of duty, devotion to the national and public interest. Else we will come down to Sachin Waze & Co.
Procedures need to be established that for tough laws like sedition, uapa etc action cannot be taken unless the CP or equivalent does not sign-off on it. There won’t be too many cases, so it should not add to their workload. Whenever, it is conclusively established that the laws were applied maliciously, there needs to be consequences for the sr officer
One of the costs – collateral damage – of the pandemic is that it has hurt other medical activities. Treatment of serious ailments. Even the immunisation programme for infants and children. The Delhi government should act with a sense of responsibility and discernment. Perhaps this is an issue on which the LG should overrule it.
An astute way should have been found by such a great nation to wriggle out of the Assam Accord. That was 1985, this is 2021. Two million – in my view – pucca citizens, pushed into a dark penumbra of non belonging. The mischievous lad in me is happy that more than half are Hindus. That will preclude drastic action. As will the solemn assurances, repeatedly tendered, to the Bangladesh government that there will be no deportations. As an Assamese, propriety demanded that CJI Ranjan Gogoi recuse himself from the hearings, instead of driving this process relentlessly forward. 2. CAA and a national NRC will harm India’s place in the neighbourhood. Fine column by Ambassador K C Singh in Asian Age on our growing isolation.
George Floyd’s family has received $ 17 million in compensation. Countless times we hear of Muslim men being acquitted of terror charges, sometimes after a few decades. NSA – the Allahabad High Court has chucked so many cases out of the window. PSA in Kashmir, it would be prudent not to even talk about. UAPA, designed your deny bail. 2. A government must be feared by people, true, mainly those who break the law. Much more, it should be respected. The organs of the state who wield so much power should be seen to be acting with a sense of duty, devotion to the national and public interest. Else we will come down to Sachin Waze & Co.