Reeling under acute financial crunch, the Indian armed forces expect increased allocation to meet their modernisation plans. The Modi government must deliver.
The sailors are on two ships, the Indian MV Jag Anand and Swiss-Italian MV Anastasia, that have been denied permission to offload Australian coal they are carrying.
Length of 6 stretches is 100 km and work is expected to take 2 years to complete. For the first time, NHIDCL, under roads ministry, has got the projects instead of BRO, under defence ministry.
The 135-km long Pangong Tso, a landlocked lake that is partly in the Ladakh region and partly in Tibet, has seen tensions between India and China since May.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China believes in peaceful coexistence on issues of territorial integrity, and Beijing's diplomacy is aimed at creating a win-win situation for all.
In my view as the finance secretary during UPA II govt, the least RBI could have done was not to further depress the sentiment with doomsday prophecies.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.
Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.
Jung nahin ho. Since 1988, the two Asian giants have tried to make space for each other’s rise. There is no issue outstanding between them that war would decisively resolve. A proposition that holds true with Pakistan as well.
Each time a particularly inappropriate use is made of the law on Sedition, violating the very fair guidelines the SC had formulated in 1962, it might wish to treat this as a case of contempt of court. If faced with a whole rash of instances where the police are invoking such a drastic, colonial era law that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, it might wish to consider whether there is a case for reading down the law. Striking down the present provision as too sweeping in a democracy, with the government having the option to frame a more carefully worded version. 2. The entire edifice of law rests on the premise of the Rule of law being respected and upheld by the authorities. That is why societies accept drastic laws on terror, for example. However, if functionaries are unable to exercise such immense power without getting intoxicated, time to move away the punch bowl a little.
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Jung nahin ho. Since 1988, the two Asian giants have tried to make space for each other’s rise. There is no issue outstanding between them that war would decisively resolve. A proposition that holds true with Pakistan as well.
Kaun hai jisse hum aaj kal khafa aur naraaz nahin hain …
Each time a particularly inappropriate use is made of the law on Sedition, violating the very fair guidelines the SC had formulated in 1962, it might wish to treat this as a case of contempt of court. If faced with a whole rash of instances where the police are invoking such a drastic, colonial era law that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, it might wish to consider whether there is a case for reading down the law. Striking down the present provision as too sweeping in a democracy, with the government having the option to frame a more carefully worded version. 2. The entire edifice of law rests on the premise of the Rule of law being respected and upheld by the authorities. That is why societies accept drastic laws on terror, for example. However, if functionaries are unable to exercise such immense power without getting intoxicated, time to move away the punch bowl a little.