Month November 2018
Of the 18 people named in the chargesheet, 16 have been arrested. One of the two persons shown as absconding – who was earlier identified only as Murali alias Shiva – has now been identified by the SIT in the… Continue Reading →
Admin | On 21, Nov 2018 Rights group: “Outrage of upper-castes only emerges in response to anti-caste action” NEW DELHI: Nov. 21, 2018 — After Twitter CEO and Co-Founder Jack Dorsey was pictured in India holding a poster reading, “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy,”… Continue Reading →
Paddy farmer Nanasaheb Armo (58) of Ghatbarra village in northern Chhattisgarh amid the remains (left) of what was once the Hasdeo Arand forest, which was used for generations by his Gond tribe and a part of which is now an… Continue Reading →
Bengaluru: Vyalikaval police, who began probing the death of Pushpa Archana Lall from Andaman & Nicobar Islands, found that the law intern filed a sexual harassment complaintwith Commercial Street police on November 20. Pushpa had come to Bengaluru in 2017 and enrolled as an… Continue Reading →
Mahesh Langa Illustration: J.A. Premkumar On November 26, the Supreme Court will hear Zakia Jafri’s petition challenging the clean chit given to the then Gujarat Chief Minister and current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, by the Special Investigation team (SIT) set up to… Continue Reading →
Inching Towards Majoritarian Democracy subhash gatade “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin, 1962. 1. These are times when the state of democracy is a… Continue Reading →
From teeming arrears of cases to disillusioned members of the Bar, the Court requires not just some gentle course correction, but a genuine uprooting of settled practices to guide it back on course. The existing status quo caters heavily to… Continue Reading →
STAFF REPORTER BHUBANESWAR, NOVEMBER Lada Sikaka, president of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, had alleged at a press conference in Bhubaneswar last month that he was arbitrarily picked up, detained and beaten up by Odisha police. | Photo Credit: File photo Amnesty seeks… Continue Reading →
CBI arrested him from a remote part of Muzaffarpur district. The doctor used to travel to the shelter home owned by Brajesh Thakur (pictured above) to administer the injections. HIGHLIGHTS Ashwani, the bogus doctor, practised in Kurhani block of Muzaffarpur… Continue Reading →
In spite of an intense pushback by the state, left-wing rebellion in election-bound Chhattisgarh won’t end until poor governance does Sudeep Chakravarti An army man in Dandakaranya region during the first phase of elections earlier this month. Photo: Shaswati Das/Mint… Continue Reading →