The lame duck UPA coalition’s sudden move to create an Equal Opportunity Commission on the recommendations of the divisive Sachar Committee and grant minority status to the miniscule Jain community is insidious and illegitimate, and will hopefully not be allowed to become law by alert Opposition parties. Like all major … Read More
The Supreme Court on Monday morning set aside the takeover of the sacred Nataraj temple at Chidambaram by the Tamil Nadu State Government, and paved the way for the return of the temple administration to its traditional custodians, the Podu Dikshitars, thus marking the opening of the year with a … Read More
Addressing his third press conference in over nine years in office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to reserve his place in history by hoping it would judge him more objectively (read kindly) than the media and the Opposition parties, and startled the nation by congratulating himself for maintaining the momentum … Read More
Barely a week after the Supreme Court of India overruled the Delhi High Court order de-criminalising homosexuality among consenting adults, a determined group of Members of Parliament in Uganda passed a stringent anti-gay law, citing the need to protect traditional family values which are being undermined by Western-inspired gay rights … Read More
The Congress-dominated Union Cabinet’s decision to order an enquiry into the alleged surveillance of a young woman by the Gujarat Government, suspiciously timed a few hours before the Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate exonerated the Chief Minister Narendra Modi of conspiracy and direct complicity in the Gulberg housing society massacre on February … Read More
Ahmedabad Metropolitan magistrate BJ Ganatra today pronounced verdict on Zakia Jafri’s plea against the closure report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) giving a clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister and others in the alleged conspiracy behind the 2002 riots, and gave the nation the much awaited … Read More
Breaking his silence in the wake of a mounting campaign to force him to resign as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, Justice AK Ganguly questioned the manner in which the Chief Justice of India handled the charge of sexual misconduct against him and asserted that the report … Read More
Although the US State Department is assiduously propagating the view that Devyani Khobragade’s transfer to India’s Permanent Mission at the United Nations would entitle her to full diplomatic immunity only prospectively and will not protect her from prosecution in the visa fraud and minimum wage dispute, this does not seem … Read More
The protracted stand-off over Devyani Khobragade has led many in India’s security establishment to consider that the real reason for the arrest and humiliation of the diplomat could be India’s adamant detention of the floating armoury, MV Seaman Guard Ohio, on October 11 this year, and the continued incarceration of … Read More
Narendra Modi today gave a clarion call for Ram Rajya from the civilisational heartland of India, telling denizens of Varanasi that this was the vision of their ancestors, which they had the qualities to make real. Enchanting a mammoth gathering in this historic city at the Vijay Shankhanaad Rally, he … Read More
