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Saturday, May 4, 2024
TopicBhima Koregaon

Topic: Bhima Koregaon

India has two legal systems to use when needed: Democratic and dictatorial

Bhima-Koregaon arrests show how Indian Constitution 'guarantees' rights and liberties but also snatches them away.

Bombay High Court raps Maharashtra police: Why hold press conference on sub judice matter?

During the briefing, police read out letters exchanged between the activists who were arrested and claimed they had proof of their links with Maoists.

Bhima-Koregaon arrests: Letter ‘seized’ from activists talks of ‘Congress support’ for protests

The letter also mentions a phone number, which allegedly belongs to a senior Congress leader who is referred to as a ‘friend’.

Shoddy solutions won’t work to tackle the new Maoist-Naxal menace

Maoist-Naxal forces have weakened in their actual areas of origin, but urban sympathisers have expanded their influence.

Letters show ‘links between activists and Maoists’, say Maharashtra Police

The letters, however, do not seem to mention the full names of the activists and use only first names or abbreviations.

For Left-liberals, winning hashtag battles with #MeTooUrbanNaxal seems to be enough

To own abuses like a trophy on social media has become a predictable strategy for India's Left-liberals.

Congress criticises arrests of activists — under a law it had introduced & strengthened

Party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who led the arguments in SC in favour of the activists, had defended the amendments to the UAPA in 2008.

48 former IAS officers urge Modi to speak up on the arrest of 5 activists

The retired officials have called the sudden arrests of five activists as the “most brazen display of coercive authority by the state yet”.    New Delhi: Forty-eight...

Pune police arrested 5 activists in June. What happened to them

The five activists — Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Shoma Sen — refused bail and are in judicial custody.

‘Urban Naxals’ is BJP’s sinister plot promoted by its Urban Idiots: Jignesh Mevani

The seeds were sown in Gujarat, and the current attack on activists over the Elgaar Parishad event only shows their nervousness. This abhorrent phrase ‘Urban...

On Camera

Prajwal Revanna case shows why and how sexual crimes by men in politics can go unchecked for years

It would be a disservice to the women of Hassan to look at Prajwal Revanna’s alleged abuse of power as a ‘sex scandal’. Allegations against him show what ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ actually means.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.