The Ministry of Home Affairs has by notification issued on March 4, made changes to some definitions, rules and regulations governing the entitlements given to the Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) card holders. Post March 4 2021, all OCI cardholders will be required to take a special permission from theRead More →
Do Judge Dharmender Rana’s reasons really differ? When Judge Dharmender Rana granted bail to Disha Ravi on Tuesday night, it was bound to bother India watchers why Disha was treated more liberally than Safoora Zargar by the same judge faced with two bail applications by young girsl with no priorRead More →
Why Ghulam Nabi Azad said he is a proud Hindustani Muslim Within days of Aman Chopra’s now famous interview with former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari, a prominent Indian Muslim leader of the Congress party – Ghulam Nabi Azad – now former leader of the Opposition in the RajyaRead More →
Veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who has been learning the leadership skills under the tutelage of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has done it again. Like his aka – he too seems to be suffering from ‘foot and mouth’ disease. While Rahul’s utterances are laughed at – a good money makingRead More →
While self-imposing people like Swara Bhasker should be seen – not helping farmers but only to satiate their daily hunger for publicity when they join and so publically announce that they are joining the protests on Singhu border, we can have a closer look at what is really happening onRead More →
Farmers’ protests at the border areas of Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR) can continue without impediment and without any breach of peace either by the protesters or the police, the Indian Supreme Court said on Thursday, 17 December. A three judge Bench led by comprising Chief Justice of India SARead More →
No one is unaware of the current protests going on in India by farmers of Punjab who are picketing at the Delhi- Haryana border for the last 10 days. They have had 5 rounds of talks with the government, failed to make any headway and the sixth round is scheduledRead More →
Today, when the world media is focused on India’s farmers’ protests and the deadlock in talks between the government and farmers’ representatives (five rounds gone and sixth scheduled for Wednesday 9 December), it is exigent to decipher the politics behind it to understand the core issue – that of farmRead More →
As has been reported earlier, Arnab Goswami (of Republic TV) was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court of India on November 11 with the Apex Court only making an interim order and reserving its reasoned judgment and findings. On November 27, the Court delivered a 55 pages long judgement givingRead More →
Innovator, scholar and bold leader becomes university’s seventh president Vivek Goel, a distinguished scholar with extensive achievements in research, teaching and leadership across both public and private sectors, will become the seventh president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Goel, who begins his five-year term on July 1, 2021, is recognized in Canada and around the world as aRead More →