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TopicBhima Koregaon

Topic: Bhima Koregaon

Pune court rejects activist Gautam Navlakha’s bail plea in Bhima Koregaon case

Activists Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Bhradwaj and Varavara Rao are facing charges under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for alleged links to Maoists.

Why liberals won’t be looking forward to DY Chandrachud’s term as CJI after Ayodhya verdict

Liberal credentials of Justice DY Chandrachud, hailed by media and the progressives for his dissenting views, have been inconsistent, to say the least.

Supreme Court extends protection from arrest to Gautam Navlakha in Koregaon Bhima case

The Supreme Court extended social activist Gautam Navlakha's interim protection to 12 October while hearing his plea challenging the Bombay High Court order.

Not Tolstoy, it was Biswajit Roy’s ‘War and Peace in Junglemahal’ that HC judge asked about

Justice Kotwal clarifies he knows Tolstoy’s War and Peace but his question was about another book. Arrested activists’ lawyers say media created the confusion.

Does War & Peace taunt show how poorly equipped Indian judges are to handle security cases?

A Bombay High Court judge reportedly questioned activist Vernon Gonsalves over keeping a book named ‘War and Peace’ at home.

‘War and Peace’ judge has made news before — with matrimonial cruelty & acid attack cases

Justice Kotwal, who became additional judge of Bombay HC in June 2017, asked why activist Vernon Gonsalves possessed Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’.

My mother was wrongly jailed for ‘waging war’ on India. A professor with bad knees, no bed

Our Supreme Court sings paeans to the supremacy of ‘human liberty’. What good is ‘liberty’ if you have drained a human’s life even before a trial has begun?

BJP is denying ticket to vocal Dalit MPs like Udit Raj because they just won’t fall in line

Most sitting MPs whom BJP denied ticket to contest the 2019 elections were vocal about issues of caste and social justice in India.

Columbia University teaches Ambedkar’s biography, but few in India have even read it

A casteist and ideological bias has ensured that Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography is a celebrated work while Ambedkar's memoir is hardly known.

Congress allegation of Dalit oppression under Modi rule is wrong, says NDA ally Athawale

RPI's Ramdas Athawale in an interview to ThePrint says Bhima-Koregaon clashes will have no impact on BJP’s performance in Lok Sabha elections.

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Iran-Israel conflict will now be shaped by 3H—Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah

Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.

Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi to take over as Chief of the Naval Staff

He has been the chief of personnel and the flag officer commanding-in-chief, Western Naval Command, in the rank of vice admiral.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.