A partisan diatribe by the outgoing Vice President of India does not make the office of the VP proud Indians across the spectrum are grappling with the salvos fired on Indian democracy by outgoing vice president Hamid Ansari in a farewell interview with Rajya Sabha television (August 9) and at … Read More
The Shia Board has filed an affidavit with the Supreme Court, affirming a move of the Masjid to make way for Ram Mandir In a stunning blow to the hitherto dominant Sunni sect, the Shia Waqf Board filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on August 8, 2017 fracturing … Read More
Bowing to the military supremacy in Islamabad, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on July 28, 2017 disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office for life after an exposé of Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca’s financial dealings showed that three of Sharif’s children owned offshore companies. There was no trial, no … Read More
In a major relief for the beleaguered Baduria minor whose Facebook post, deleted the same evening, sparked off three days of communal violence in Basirhat town of North 24 Parganas district from July 4, the Hindu Samhati legal team successfully convinced the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate court of Basirhat that … Read More
Many doctors have come out against GM Mustard. The battle against commercial cultivation of GM Mustard has intensified with 34 distinguished persons from the medical fraternity, including two former Union Ministers, writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reject the transgenic food crop. The move, spearheaded by Dr Vallabhbhai Kathiria, … Read More
Nawaz Sharif unseated as PM of Pakistan over corruption allegations Pakistan’s now former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appears to have fallen victim to an Army-backed judicial coup. Sharif stepped down earlier today after the Supreme Court removed him from office in a unanimous verdict over corruption allegations involving close family … Read More
As schools reopened earlier this month, voices began to be raised about the quality of education being imparted to students in certain subjects, especially history. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath questioned the rationale behind excluding certain revered figures from the school curriculum. Though much has been written over the … Read More
In a major goof-up, GoI fails to submit before Delhi High Court on GMO involving Monsanto In a shocking development, officials of the Union Ministry of Agriculture deliberately failed to submit the Government of India’s views on the Indian Patent Act and Protection of Plant Varieties & Farmers’ Rights Act, … Read More
Even as social media expressed anguish and anger against the arrest and detention of the minor boy whose Facebook post sparked off serious communal unrest in Basirhat town of North 24 Parganas district from July 4, the Hindu Samhati, a grassroots human rights body that provides succour to West Bengal’s … Read More
In a triumph of environmentalists & farmers California declared glyphosate, as a toxic cancer-causing chemical. All California retailers are required to add cancer warning labels to all products containing glyphosate from July 7 In a major setback to the multinational seed and chemical company, Monsanto, the US State of California … Read More
