Refusing bail to activist Akhil Gogoi, Gauhati High Court said his anti-CAA protest in December 2019 was aimed at striking terror in all sections of society.
Published on 31 August 2019, the final NRC had excluded 19.22 lakh people. The state coordinator now says Registrar General is yet to publish the final list.
The HC order stated that prison procedures applicable to undertrials & convicts can't be applied to foreign nationals who entered the country illegally or illegal migrants.
Just like Supreme Court, many high courts in India have said they will only take up urgent matters for hearing. What encompasses as urgent is not clear.
While putting onus on people to prove their citizenship, Indian courts have failed to establish some kind of standard for how one can discharge such a burden.
Justice I.A. Ansari, former chief justice of Gauhati HC, says Supreme Court must answer the questions of constitutionality he had raised in his 2013 judgment.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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.