Notices issued to UP govt & Centre after his wife approached apex court contesting the NSA detention. Verma was detained last month in connection with the Noida workers’ protests.
Centre said it has been engaging with stakeholders in Ladakh to address local aspirations. However, it added, frequent bandhs & protests in recent months had adversely affected daily life & economy.
When masked men robbed a Mapusa family and thugs attacked an activist, Goa reached for the stringent law to curb ‘organised crime’. Experts question if it is an overreach.
No country will be able to provide security cover and aid to Afghanistan like the US. With China and Pakistan appropriating strategic space, India has little elbow room.
Pakistan NSA Moeed Yusuf says interview in UK’s Sunday Times is 'gross mischaracterisation' of his conversation with journalist Christina Lamb. She says ‘interviews recorded’.
Parvez, Irfan and Rahmatullah were arrested on 12 July 2020 for allegedly carrying 60 kg of cow meat, which was never forensically identified. They were released over a year later in August this year.
Retired SC judges Gopala Gowda, Deepak Gupta, Aftab Alam & M.B. Lokur said definition of terror under UAPA and sedition vague, needs to be defined through judicial pronouncements.
Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.
With Washington issuing a third 30-day waiver for Russian crude cargoes at sea, India signals continuity in import strategy while ramping up purchases from Venezuela and other suppliers.
While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.
Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.
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