Filing Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation has become the first choice of action for big businesses to threaten journalists and activists who expose their corrupt practices. A recent SC ru...
A visit to this parched region of Maharashtra shows the daily struggle of people for water and how advance emergency measures could have mitigated the distress
By Vivian Fernandes in Latur
Dri...
In India, 75 million are deprived of sufficient water. Over the last 50 years, per capita availability of fresh water has declined from 3,000 cubic meters to 1,123 cubic meters. The global average is ...
With more than 110 dead in the Putingal fireworks explosion and scores injured, will these illegal festivities be stopped or continue to pander to the majority community as the state heads for polls?...
The apex court judgment in the SR Bommai vs Union of India case clearly said that Article 356 cannot be imposed for superseding a duly constituted ministry
By Mary Mitzy and Navank Shekhar Mishra
...
The party’s attempt to wrest power in various states by wooing rebel MLAs is part of its conquering game and bolstering numbers in the Rajya Sabha so that it can get crucial legislation passed there
...
Haryana’s Punjabi chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar finds himself isolated not just within his party but in his state where the top seat was occupied by Jats for nearly 40 years
By Vipin Pubby in Ch...
The apex court had, in 2015, disagreed with the view that Jats were a backward community and this was earlier stressed in 1997 by the National Commission for Backward Classes.
By Venkatasubramanian...
The BJP-led center’s move to impose President’s rule in Congress-led Arunachal Pradesh may derail the upcoming Budget Session with the opposition rallying behind the Congress.
By Ramesh Menon
...