Tag: current affairs – India

BJP planning to form governments in Nepal, Sri Lanka? Tripura Chief Minister discloses global expansion plan

Sparking a fresh controversy, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb on Sunday said that the BJP is planning to expand its footprint not only across the country but also in neighbouring nations. Speaking at an event in state capital Agartala, Deb raised eyebrows when he disclosed Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah’s alleged plan to… Read More BJP planning to form governments in Nepal, Sri Lanka? Tripura Chief Minister discloses global expansion plan

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Express Editorial: Weaponising an advocacy document to arrest an activist signals paranoia, not democratic power.

Evidence in the in the public domain points to Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old environmental activist, being just that – young and an activist. In an online interview, eight months ago, she talks, in sentences that end with a rising intonation, as if her sentences are questions, about causes ranging from climate change to feminism. Evidence… Read More Express Editorial: Weaponising an advocacy document to arrest an activist signals paranoia, not democratic power.

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Bharat Bhushan: No one critical of the government seems to be innocent any longer / Delhi Police arrests 22-year-old environmental activist, calls her key to foreign hand

‘Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law’: Albert Camus, The Rebel        The Maharashtra government needs to order an inquiry into the planting of false evidence on Bhima-Koregaon accused Rona Jacob Wilson. It owes this to… Read More Bharat Bhushan: No one critical of the government seems to be innocent any longer / Delhi Police arrests 22-year-old environmental activist, calls her key to foreign hand

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Chakshu Roy: Over the years, poets, students, and even a village have been booked under the sedition law

‘And then again there are such as consider it virtuous to say, “Virtue is necessary”; but at bottom they believe only that the police is necessary’: Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.    Indian Governments past and present have used a colonial-era law to charge many more ‘seditious’ men and women, most recently during the farmer… Read More Chakshu Roy: Over the years, poets, students, and even a village have been booked under the sedition law

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SIMRAN JEET SINGH: The Farmers' Protests Are a Turning Point for India's Democracy

NB: This article is presumably meant to explain the ongoing Indian farmers’ movement to Western audiences. If it was intended to help the farmers’ struggle, it will do just the opposite. The author highlights the Sikh and Punjabi element in the protests, when in fact it has been a non-denominational movement from the start. He… Read More SIMRAN JEET SINGH: The Farmers' Protests Are a Turning Point for India's Democracy

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Aseem Shrivastava: An Age gone blind // Mallika Bhanot – Char Dham Pariyojana: A High Risk Engineering Exercise

A strange fact has baffled naturalists recently. Rhododendrons and Himalayan daisies have been flowering in Ramgarh in the freezing winter of January, normally a snow-bound month of the Himalayan calendar. It has been one of the warmest winters in Uttarakhand. Ramgarh (at 2,100 metres) received half-a-dozen snowfalls during the winter of 2019-20. This season (and… Read More Aseem Shrivastava: An Age gone blind // Mallika Bhanot – Char Dham Pariyojana: A High Risk Engineering Exercise

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भीमा कोरेगांव मामले में 'सबूत' प्लांट किए जाने का वाशिंगटन पोस्ट का दावा // Evidence planted in Bhima Koregaon accused Rona Wilson's computer: US firm

महाराष्ट्र के पुणे में भीमा कोरोगांव में 2018 में हुई हिंसा के सिलसिले में हुई जाँच और गिरफ़्तारियाँ एक नई रिपोर्ट के आने के बाद अंतरराष्ट्रीय मीडिया में सुर्खियों में है. अमेरिका के प्रतिष्ठित समाचार पत्र ‘दवाशिंगटन पोस्ट‘ ने अमेरिका की एक साइबर फ़ोरेंसिक लैब की जाँच रिपोर्ट के आधार पर दावा किया है कि इस… Read More भीमा कोरेगांव मामले में 'सबूत' प्लांट किए जाने का वाशिंगटन पोस्ट का दावा // Evidence planted in Bhima Koregaon accused Rona Wilson's computer: US firm

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Protesting farmers hand PM a lesson for his 'Andolan Jeevi' comment

The protesting farmers on Monday wore as a badge of honour Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to some of them as “Andolan Jeevi” and handed him a lesson in history. Modi’s comment had come in the Rajya Sabha while he was replying to the motion of thanks to the President’s address. “Farmers would like to… Read More Protesting farmers hand PM a lesson for his 'Andolan Jeevi' comment

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Bharat Bhushan: How farm protests may change political equations and hurt BJP in key states

The number and size of protest meetings or Mahapanchayats across villages of North India against the government’s obduracy on farm laws recalls the crisis faced by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2011. Six years into power, and with just about three years to go till the next general elections, its credibility was so eroded by… Read More Bharat Bhushan: How farm protests may change political equations and hurt BJP in key states

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