Month August 2017
Exclusive: Allegations by Indian customs of huge sums being siphoned off to tax havens from projects are contained in legal documents but denied by company Michael Safi in Delhi Tuesday 15 August 2017 23.57 BSTFirst published on Tuesday 15 August 2017 19.00 BST A global… Continue Reading →
Dhananjay Mahapatra| TNN | U HIGHLIGHTS SC forced police officers N K Amin and Tarun Barotto resign from post-retirement posts Amin was an accused in the Sohrabuddin encounter case Barot was an accused in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case File photo of the… Continue Reading →
Next month the activist will travel hundreds of kilometres to seek collective forgiveness for our sins of omission and commission. Will you be joining him? – Karawan e Mohabbat – beginning with Nellie in Assam on September 2 and ending at… Continue Reading →
Show Caption The news media in India have become, variously, town criers, cheerleaders, abettors, apologists, and an advance guard of newshounds clearing the way, preparing the ground for the totalising ideology and agenda of the current BJP regime. By SASHI… Continue Reading →
The future of fake news is messaging apps, not social media. And it’s going to be even worse. Nic Dias In some places, the future of misinformation is already here. A hoax about child-napping con artists led to the… Continue Reading →
President Kovind’s first Independence Day speech. PIC: PTI By: Shanta Gokhale The virtue of forgetting in the presidential speech Over many years, but particularly the last three, we have grown used to our Prime Minister’s speeches — the characteristic rise… Continue Reading →
Ujwala Uppaluri With the Supreme Court set to rule on privacy, India is on the cusp of constitutional history The nine-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar determining whether a fundamental right to privacy exists is only the 15th… Continue Reading →
You can’t cry foul at channels censoring Game Of Thrones or not giving a film certificate to Lipstick Under My Burkha because you like their storylines, even if the government doesn’t Rajyasree Sen A still from ‘Pehredar Piya Ki’. Almost… Continue Reading →
There is a distinct shift in the relation between the Indian nationalist imaginary and the armed forces. Just as the white man once took upon himself the burden of civilising Indians, the present government has committed itself to… Continue Reading →
BILAL KHAN I, along with four others, reached Bombay Hospital, Indore on August 8 to meet Medha Patkar who was forcefully hospitalised on the 12th day of her indefinite fast by the Madhya Pradesh Police. Medha Patkar was fasting to… Continue Reading →