The emerging Jharkhand assembly election results show that the Congress-Jharkhand Mukti Morcha with their 40-plus seats is way ahead of the BJP that has so far won 27 seats.
Northeast unrest over citizenship law is hardly about secularism. People only want to protect their distinct tribal culture from Bengalis residing there.
If the question, “If not Modi, who?” worked for the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, then “If not Didi, who?” may come to haunt it in West Bengal in 2021.
BJP knows it is more alluring to keep talking about nationwide NRC than actually carrying out a complex process that can backfire, like it did in Assam.
India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
It seems premature to say that SC has redeemed its constitionnal stature. His behavior during the past year, and especially during the elections, his dumbfounding silence on everything that has happened lately raises questions about his future, his credibility and especially his independence. The SC has, according to the Constitution, a real judicial power. This judicial power is very silent, and the argument that it takes time to deliver justice challenges when the fundamental principles of the Constitution are at stake. But perhaps the country’s constitutional experts and citizens should ask themselves if the SC should not be given other means of action, allowing it to decide before legislative measures which infringe the Constitution are promulgated. .
Rahul Gandhi is an Everest sized roadblock to the Opposition getting back into the game. For all their political experience and attainments, personages like Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar are restricted to one state. The Congress has a natural leadership role at the national level, now buttressed by the growing number of states in which it is in power. 2. The protests are spontaneous, might appear a little inchoate. However, they represent a rippling energy and emotion an emaciated opposition, hit out of the park as recently as in May last year, can only dream of. Drawing political mileage out of this changed mood is the natural right of the opposition in a democracy. 3. Whatever the state of the opposition, it is for the incumbent to figure why the glacier has begun to melt so swiftly.
Today’s judgment, which many, including me, feel does not go far enough, shows just how much moral authority – apart from formal legal powers under the Constitution – the apex court possesses. On Kashmir, possibly CAA as well, it has been a little behind the curve. Allowing an impression to form that, if push comes to shove, it will yield to the executive.
The judgment appears to have the character of an advisory opinion … Last few words of the Hindu’s edit. 2. Justice Arijit Pasayat of the apex court was once asked what his opinion was on a particular issue. Since the day I became a judge, he replied, I don’t express any opinions. I pass orders. 3. There is an immense store of information tucked away in my mind, to be retrieved and used to make a point.
It seems premature to say that SC has redeemed its constitionnal stature. His behavior during the past year, and especially during the elections, his dumbfounding silence on everything that has happened lately raises questions about his future, his credibility and especially his independence. The SC has, according to the Constitution, a real judicial power. This judicial power is very silent, and the argument that it takes time to deliver justice challenges when the fundamental principles of the Constitution are at stake. But perhaps the country’s constitutional experts and citizens should ask themselves if the SC should not be given other means of action, allowing it to decide before legislative measures which infringe the Constitution are promulgated. .
Rahul Gandhi is an Everest sized roadblock to the Opposition getting back into the game. For all their political experience and attainments, personages like Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar are restricted to one state. The Congress has a natural leadership role at the national level, now buttressed by the growing number of states in which it is in power. 2. The protests are spontaneous, might appear a little inchoate. However, they represent a rippling energy and emotion an emaciated opposition, hit out of the park as recently as in May last year, can only dream of. Drawing political mileage out of this changed mood is the natural right of the opposition in a democracy. 3. Whatever the state of the opposition, it is for the incumbent to figure why the glacier has begun to melt so swiftly.
Today’s judgment, which many, including me, feel does not go far enough, shows just how much moral authority – apart from formal legal powers under the Constitution – the apex court possesses. On Kashmir, possibly CAA as well, it has been a little behind the curve. Allowing an impression to form that, if push comes to shove, it will yield to the executive.
The judgment appears to have the character of an advisory opinion … Last few words of the Hindu’s edit. 2. Justice Arijit Pasayat of the apex court was once asked what his opinion was on a particular issue. Since the day I became a judge, he replied, I don’t express any opinions. I pass orders. 3. There is an immense store of information tucked away in my mind, to be retrieved and used to make a point.