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Plugged-In: The impeachment saga & 3 days to Karnataka elections

Front Page The petition two MPs moved in the Supreme Court challenging Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu’s rejection of the impeachment motion was withdrawn...

The impeachment fiasco – another example of Congress adopting a fringe position

Does it behove a national party to take such fringe positions on issues like India's geographical integrity, EVMs, or even the CJI's impeachment?

Plugged-In: Storm alert, an important week for the Supreme Court, and Karnataka 2018

The Supreme Court is about to have a very busy week. CJI Dipak Misra has picked a five-judge bench to hear a plea regarding his own impeachment.

Govt must clear Justice Joseph’s elevation, not doing so is unconstitutional: Soli Sorabjee

Former attorney-general Soli Sorabjee says CJI should display leadership qualities but it was incorrect for the 4 judges to go public with their complaints. New...

Modi govt takes on SC again, appoints Indu Malhotra but doesn’t clear K.M. Joseph

The move is bound to be controversial, and it is unclear whether the Centre took CJI Dipak Misra into confidence before taking the decision.

Why the doomed impeachment motion against CJI sets a dangerous precedent

Such desperately low politics also highlights the difficult choice people disillusioned by the present regime face in the next election. There are moments in life...

Congress decision on impeachment is well thought out, not off-the-cuff – Digvijaya Singh

Back after a six-month sabbatical taken to complete the 3,100-km ‘Narmada Parikrama’, Digvijaya has defended the motion citing an 'unprecedented threat to judiciary'.

Plugged-In: Impeachment motion rejected, Manu Sharma’s fate, and AFSPA curtailed

The only thing that got impeached was the motion itself, as Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu rejected the petition submitted by seven opposition parties seeking CJI Dipak Misra's impeachment

Arun Shourie on the grand words that CJI Dipak Misra squeezes into his judgments

In this excerpt from his book 'Anita Gets Bail', Arun Shourie writes aboout the grandiloquence that is often part of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra's past judgements.

Why Venkaiah Naidu denied the opposition’s motion for CJI’s impeachment

Naidu said the signatory MPs were ‘unsure of their own case’, highlighting certain phrases used in the motion, such as ‘may have been involved’ and ‘likely to fall’

On Camera

Where is Skill India money going? It’s a Rs 48,000 crore mystery

All industries are still facing an acute shortage of skilled manpower despite thousands of crores spent on skilling schemes.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

Trump feared India could arm BrahMos with nuclear warhead to target Pakistan in Op Sindoor—WSJ report

New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.