Will Kannur district of Kerala become the first city outside the States of Jammu & Kashmir and Manipur where the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) might be imposed owing to the growing lawlessness and targetted killings of Hindu activists by goons belonging to the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist … Read More
Amidst media speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping would bat strongly for “all-weather friend” Pakistan at the BRICS-BIMSTEC summit in Goa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the sting out of any potential rebuke this might entail with a game-changing arms acquisition from Russia. While Saturday’s $ 5 billion S-400 ‘Triumf’ … Read More
The reorganisation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir could well begin from the backward Ladakh province as local leaders of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, opposition National Conference and Congress, as well as heads of various religious and cultural organisations and civil society groups, have united to urge Union … Read More
Addressing the people of Pakistan from Kozhikode, Kerala, on September 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharpened his diplomatic offensive by highlighting its internal vulnerabilities and urging citizens to ponder the events of the past seven decades: “Your rulers are misleading you by singing songs on Kashmir and reading out scripts written … Read More
An initiative by two important American Republican lawmakers to introduce a Bill in the US House of Representatives to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, just two days after the attack on an Indian Army base camp at Uri in Jammu & Kashmir on September 18, has done … Read More
The sudden resignation of Tariq Hamid Karra, MP (Srinagar-Budgam), from Parliament as also from the basic membership of the People’s Democratic Party, on September 15, has put the PDP-BJP coalition under strain. Karra was one of the founding members of the PDP and served as finance minister under Mufti Mohammad … Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sharply escalated his measured references to Islamabad’s atrocities in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir by directing India’s representative to the UN to raise the human rights situation in those regions and indeed, across all of Pakistan, at the 33rd session of the United Nation Human … Read More
The unsurprising failure of the all-party delegation to Jammu & Kashmir on September 4-5 has had two immediate repercussions – a hardening of the Centre’s attitude towards the separatists who have long battened on the Indian exchequer, and an enraged Jammu province escalating its demand for separate Statehood. Berating the … Read More
Justice Jasti Chelameswar has struck a powerful blow against the poisonous legacy of the Supreme Court in the Second Judges Case, 1993, which usurped the Executive’s power to appoint judges and replaced it with an opaque system of selection by dominant judges. By breaking the omerta code on this sham, … Read More
A sense of abandonment has seized Jammu and Ladakh since Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh made a second visit to the valley (August 26) to take stock of the troubled situation there following the death of media savvy Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani (July 8), but did not utter a … Read More
