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 →
“For many Australians, looking back on a history of war heroism, it will be hard to take in what the investigation by Justice Paul Brereton has found: 25 current or former soldiers, from the special forces, allegedly perpetrated, as principals or accessories, war crimes in Afghanistan”, wrote Michelle Grattan in her FridayRead More →
It has been revealed that the Department of Home Affairs used Google Translate for its COVID-19 website when bureaucrats decided not to engage official translators to do the translation (into various languages) for the website health.gov.au until later. The decision by the Department of Home Affairs has been revealed inRead More →
In these times of social media, anybody is somebody and many “intellectuals” make complete fools of themselves sounding like certified morons. Known as ‘stand-up comedian’ Kunal Kamra, tweeted after Arnab Goswami was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court of India, and in his race to be among the ‘firsts’Read More →
Rahul Gandhi is like a student ‘eager to impress the teacher’ Politicians can be a pain when in office and can be bigger pain when not. And the former US president Barack Obama is a bigger, a lot bigger pain for Rahul Gandhi right now. Rahul Gandhi, who is yet to succeedRead More →
Family members named in 498A case without allegations of active involvement cannot be tried You might have heard of matrimonial or dowry disputes in your circles. Often such stories have a multitude of named culprits who allegedly collude with the main perpetrator in committing the crime of abusing the brideRead More →