Month March 2021
While the Trinamool Congress sails ahead of its opponents on fielding women candidates, the relatively higher numbers of women in Bengal politics is part of a longer trend of gradual inclusion, to which more than one party has contributed. GILLES… Continue Reading →
By Durba Ghosh Women in Assam comprise nearly 50 per cent of the total electorate. Political parties have definitely taken this into consideration during the ongoing election season, wooing them in order to win votes in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly… Continue Reading →
MARCH 24, 2021 By Rajashri Dasgupta Nandigram is no ordinary village in West Bengal. Located about 150 kms from Kolkata, it was the epicentre of the agitation by farmers against land acquisition in 2007. Today it is once again in… Continue Reading →
BYRAVI KAUSHALMARCH 26, 2021 Today, the farmers complete four months of protests against the Centre’s farm laws. Media coverage has shrunk and the government is unwilling to resume dialogue. The farmers are adamant and are refusing to budge. —— The Bharat… Continue Reading →
Several states, including Kerala, Bihar, Punjab, Karnataka, and Sikkim, have expressed reservations on inter-basin water transfer, and with good reason. On World Water Day, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan signed a… Continue Reading →
Dharker is the Founder and Director of the Mumbai International Literary Festival, which is held in November every year. He is also the Founder and Director of Literature Live! which holds literary evenings through the year in different locations in… Continue Reading →
MARCH 25, 2021 THE National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the reported arrest of ten people in a false case after they asked two policemen to pay for the food they had consumed at… Continue Reading →
A day after a 20-year-old woman and her 17-year-old sister were found dead in Bilsanda area of Pilibhit district of western Uttar Pradesh, the police have focused their investigation on the suspected involvement of people close to the girls, including… Continue Reading →
By: Ullekh, N.P. [Ullekh, N.P. is a writer, journalist, and political commentator based in New Delhi. He is the executive editor of the newsweekly Open and author of three nonfiction books: War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology Behind Narendra Modi’s 2014 Win; The Untold… Continue Reading →
Gujarat’s senior environmentalists Rohit Prajapati and Krishnakant of the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS) have warned of contempt proceedings for allegedly violating the Supreme Court order dated February 22, 2017, in the Writ Petition (Civil) No 375 of 2012, against the… Continue Reading →