Tag: justice

Help at hand: The struggle against electoral Inquisition will be long and hard

To online partisans of Opposition parties who see the hidden hand of the Aam Aadmi Party or the BJP in the CJP’s successful mobilisations, if the suppression of Jantar Mantar 2.0 doesn’t discredit your conspiratorial daftness, you’re probably immune to lived experience. Mukul Kesavan Jantar Mantar 2.0 will spur pundits to think of the electoral… Read More Help at hand: The struggle against electoral Inquisition will be long and hard

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ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza Julian Borger and Rachel Savage The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in… Read More ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

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What about Gyanesh Kumar’s backroom collaborators?

Only a forensic audit and a full inquiry can determine their level of administrative culpability in this massive exclusion of voters ‘First Time Since Independence So Many Voters Lost Voting Rights’: Ex-CEC O.P. Rawat on SIR Exercise Bharat Bhushan The legal plea of ‘just following orders’ (known as the Nuremberg defence) is untenable in modern… Read More What about Gyanesh Kumar’s backroom collaborators?

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‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities

Women say nothing has changed since Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya bus rape case 14 years ago Student activists protest against alleged gang rapes. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA DU की लड़कियों के ये नारे क्यों हैं इतने VIRAL ? Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi The posters, just like the women holding them, were taking no prisoners.… Read More ‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in independent institutions

But think of the implications of this dynamic. It is a way of saying that the rot in the system does not begin and end in politics; it saturates a whole elite and perhaps even a generation of voters and public servants Rarely in the annals of Indian constitutional history have two key institutions, the… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in independent institutions

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Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation’

Tom Durante Former Special Counsel Jack Smith slammed President Donald Trump in his opening statement before a Senate panel on Tuesday, saying his investigation uncovered “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that the commander in chief “engaged in serious crimes against our nation.” Smith, who was tasked with investigating Trump in 2022, spoke out as he… Read More Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation’

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Ravish Kumar: आयोग के हर जवाब में निकल आया झोल,बाई इलेक्शन ही तो है-CJI, सुप्रीम कोर्ट का कैसा जवाब

WHO MANIPULATED THE VOTERS LIST AND FOR WHOSE BENEFIT? आयोग के हर जवाब में निकल आया झोल,बाई इलेक्शन ही तो है-CJI, सुप्रीम कोर्ट का कैसा जवाब इंडियन एक्सप्रेस में रिपोर्ट छपने के 72 घंटे बाद चुनाव आयोग ने जवाब तो दिया मगर जवाब देकर फंस गया। जिस जवाब के दम पर बीजेपी आयोग को क्लीन… Read More Ravish Kumar: आयोग के हर जवाब में निकल आया झोल,बाई इलेक्शन ही तो है-CJI, सुप्रीम कोर्ट का कैसा जवाब

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Indore laughter and ECI leaks are signs of breaches in Narendra Modi’s fortress

Humour and knowledge are the two great hopes of civilisation: Konrad Lorenz Bharat Bhushan The Narendra Modi regime, carefully constructed as an unassailable fortress of absolute power, has suddenly begun to look permeable. Two new developments challenge the desired image of seamless centralisation. One is the weakening of social prohibitions against mocking Modi in public,… Read More Indore laughter and ECI leaks are signs of breaches in Narendra Modi’s fortress

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Constitutional crisis: 14 times in 10 months, two Election Commissioners objected to poll panel steps

Two Election Commissioners objected on record to poll panel steps खुल गई पोल, सामने आ गया खेल, एक्सप्रेस की रिपोर्ट से मचा तहलका: RAVISH KUMAR इतिहास का सबसे बड़ा खुलासा | Indian Express Report | Modi | Gyanesh Kumar | Election Commission |BJP  Ritika Chopra: From keeping them in the dark to adding new voters,… Read More Constitutional crisis: 14 times in 10 months, two Election Commissioners objected to poll panel steps

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