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Petition in Supreme Court Accuses NIA of Soft-Pedaling Hindutva Terror Cases
Even as the Modi government told Parliament on Tuesday that the National Investigation Agency will not oppose the grant of bail to Swami Aseemanand – prime accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case –...
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Paying a High Price for Being From the North-East
If you are from the north-east and decide to visit a museum or a monument in mainstream India, it is likely that your citizenship will be questioned Some might recall a news report on July 22 about a...
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Yes Minister, the Fault Is Entirely Yours
Frequent transfers and the fear of surveillance have sapped the morale of civil servants who had initially been heartened by Narendra Modi’s call for them to act without fear or favour File photo of...
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Four Problems Modi Must Fix to Win Back the Confidence of the Civil Service
With the security of tenure becoming more uncertain, it is worrisome that 60 officers have sought voluntary repatriation to their state cadres Narendra Modi’s meeting with secretaries in the Central...
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Don’t Discriminate Against Foreign Students, Says Rajnath Singh
Pune: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today assured foreign students studying in India that he would help to resolve all their visa problems and appealed to Indian youths not to discriminate against...
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‘India More Islamic than Pakistan’, Rajnath says in Meeting with Pakistan...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh shakes hands with Pakistani Rangers Director General (Punjab), Major General Umar Farooq Burki during a meeting in New Delhi on Friday. Credit: PTI Photo by Shahbaz...
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‘Supreme Court Needs to Step in to Halt Rash of Bans on Meat’
Shiv Sena workers hold chickens during a protest against ban on meat in Mumbai last week. Credit: PTI New Delhi: Legal luminaries believe the idea of banning cow slaughter as envisaged in the...
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Agnes of God, the Latest Target of Ban Culture
A still from the Mumbai production of the play, Agnes of God which has angered the Church The play “Agnes of God”, about an American nun who gives birth to a dead child and claims it is the result of a...
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BJP, RSS Leaders Caught Using ‘Love Jihad’ Bogey to Fuel Communal Polarisation
The national party leadership denies it is involved but spycam recordings by Cobrapost and Gulail show key BJP and Sangh leaders obsessed about the need to ‘save’ Hindu girls from Muslim boys...
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Not Patel’s Idea of a Prime Minister, Not By a Long Shot
Narendra Modi. Credit: PTI/MEA A few days ago, the ruling political establishment felt thoroughly pleased with its own sophomoric cleverness when it chose to rub the Sardar Patel point in, once again....
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What Lies Behind the Hairsplitting Over Dharma, Panth and Secularism
It is no surprise that a state whose law and order machinery is headed by a minister with such semantic predilections will tend to look the other way when various members of his ‘panth nirpeksha’...
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Debate Secularism but Don’t Let the ‘Enemy’ Get Too ‘Intimate’
People have the freedom to follow any panth or dharm. But a secular state forbids political claims in their name. Sanchi stupa. Credit: Travelling slacker/Flickr Hot on the heels of the Modi government...
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Chakma Issue Roils Arunachal as Supreme Court Decrees End to Their Statelessness
The ongoing government vs. governor face-off aside, another conflict is threatening to erupt in Arunachal Pradesh – one triggered by a recent SC order on citizenship for Chakmas CCRC president Subimal...
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The Rise and Rise of Amit Shah (and What this Means for the BJP)
Children blow conch shells as flower petals are showered on Amit Shah after he was re-elected BJP president, in New Delhi on Sunday. Credit: PTI Without any doubt, Amit Shah getting a second term as...
View ArticleSo What Did Really Happen In Malda?
The terrorist attack on the Air Force Station at Pathankot on January 2 remained a subject of discussion and debate in the mainstream media for several days. The newspapers carried bold headlines and...
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Arrest ‘Anti India Elements’ Says Rajnath, So Police Pin ‘Sedition’ on JNUSU...
An event where students chanted slogans against Afzal Guru’s hanging has quickly escalated into a political controversy beyond the campus, with the students’ union president being arrested for sedition...
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A Chilling Abuse of Law
The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Students Union, on charges of sedition marks a dramatic escalation of the undeclared war the Narendra Modi government and the Sangh...
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As Rajnath Sees Lashkar Hand, Support for Arrested JNUSU President Mounts
The Centre ups the ante by linking the targets of the recent police crackdown in JNU to the notorious Pakistan-based Hafiz Saeed but students, teachers and the opposition are not buying this line. JNU...
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Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War
Rajnath Singh. Credit: PTI Politicians, teachers unions and citizens may be angry and appalled at the government’s heavy handed action in arresting a student leader on the serious charge of sedition,...
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This is the Home Minister’s Idea of Punishment for the Patiala House Thugs
Two days after the attack, nobody has been held responsible in spite of ample photographic and video evidence In this undated photograph, Rajnath Singh twists the ear of Vikram Singh Chauhan, the...
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