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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicRavi Shankar Prasad

Topic: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Govt cites seniority, diversity to send back recommendation to elevate Justice Joseph

The government said a candidate’s seniority may be overlooked in order to ensure regional representation, but that wasn’t the case with Joseph, whose parent high court is Kerala HC.

Law minister Prasad set to meet CJI Misra next week to thrash out ‘outstanding issues’

SC judges have raised concerns about Centre sitting on collegium’s recommendations — one of the top issues that will be discussed at the meeting.

Govt hits back at Chelameswar letter: Karnataka judge probe didn’t check sexual harassment

Law minister Prasad writes to CJI Misra suggesting judiciary didn’t handle the probe well, but SC functionary calls it an attempt to obfuscate the issue.

When a minister expresses doubts about linking Aadhaar to voter ID, it smacks of cynicism

Linking Aadhaar to voter ID can effectively check duplication and ghost voting and clean up the election process.

Now Facebook faces flak in India, from RSS chief and Modi government

The Cambridge Analytica controversy spawned several top trends on Twitter where many users also echoed the viral call to “#deletefacebook”.

Does Cambridge Analytica have links with Congress & Rahul Gandhi, asks Ravi Shankar Prasad

The minister for Information Technology also said any attempts to influence India's electoral process through undesirable means will not be tolerated. 

Top lawyer petitions Supreme Court to begin live telecast of its proceedings

Petition argues that live proceedings will help citizens get information on important cases first-hand, rather than relying on third parties.

It’s time the Supreme Court went live, your lordships

Pressure on judiciary to be transparent has resulted in a travesty – a pilot project in two district courts where proceedings will be recorded without audio.

ताकि 2025 तक भारत की डिजिटल अर्थव्यवस्था एक खरब डॉलर की हो जाए

सरकार इन दिनों 30 सूत्री कार्ययोजना पर गहन विचार-विमर्श कर रही हैं, जिसका लक्ष्य ‘डिजिटल इंडिया’ योजना के तहत 1 खरब डॉलर के डिजिटल इकोनॉमी आंकड़े को छूना है.

Exclusive: How India plans to be a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025

Govt departments are currently discussing a 30-point action plan to achieve this target under Modi’s pet ‘Digital India’ scheme.

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India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

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Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

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.