The Triple Talaq Bill, which makes the practice of instant divorce punishable with a jail term of up to 3 years, will now go to the President for assent.
Politics in India has never been the profession of the young. In a society where experience is confused for ability and age for wisdom, it's been common for parties to make their brightest minds wait.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
The rights of Muslim women have been ignored by the Congress for decades, and BJP has used it as an electoral opportunity. People who have been cold and energyless in the face of rampant humiliation of women, riding a paperboat of “bachhi bachao bachhi padhao”, are today thumping their chests as champions of Muslim women’s rights. Things would have been totally different if Rajiv Gandhi had “behaved like an upright human being” and not as a “political coward” at the time of the Shah Bano Case.
The rights of Muslim women have been ignored by the Congress for decades, and BJP has used it as an electoral opportunity. People who have been cold and energyless in the face of rampant humiliation of women, riding a paperboat of “bachhi bachao bachhi padhao”, are today thumping their chests as champions of Muslim women’s rights. Things would have been totally different if Rajiv Gandhi had “behaved like an upright human being” and not as a “political coward” at the time of the Shah Bano Case.