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
http://www.reporters-collective.in The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll Uttar Pradesh is six months away from its assembly elections, so it is time to pull back the curtain on last year’s shadowy special intensive revision, and what it did to the state’s voter rolls. India’s self-incubated East India Company News reports in January… Read More The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll
The latest investigation by The Indian Express found that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected at least 14 times over ten months to decisions concerning voter registration, deletions and the centralisation of the voter database.…Over the past decade, the ECI has been criticised for allowing the Bharatiya Janata Party to… Read More Cheques and imbalances: the taming of the Election Commission of India (2024)
Dear readers, in a note above an earlier post, Electoral Inquisition, I mentioned the outstanding features of our ruling establishment: it uses democracy to destroy democracy it demands eternal power in the name of the people – defined as those who agree with it it seeks the ‘look’ of legitimacy by subjugating the autonomy of… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
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?
When a workers’ protest is branded a conspiracy, who pays for it, and who walks free? http://www.reporters-collective.in It has been nearly six months since the workers’ protest in Noida. While our lives have moved on, many workers and activists detained on mere suspicion by the police remain behind bars. A quick recap for those who… Read More The Government Agents of violence in Noida
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
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’
NB: The rule of capital is an indirect despotism, mediated by ideology. In the successor states of the British empire in South Asia the communal hatred that accompanied Independence and partition resulted in a permanent military dictatorship in Pakistan; and an uneasy tension between secular democracy and communal politics in India. Over the past decade… Read More Electoral Inquisition
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
