The nationwide sensation created by the transitional Italian government’s move to help two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, dodge the Indian justice system calls into question the pivotal role played by the Supreme Court in handling bail / parole applications in sensitive cases. A discernible pattern of pick … Read More
Tamil Nadu parties are quick to hyperventilate over issues favoured by the church, such as the alleged atrocities towards Tamils in Sri Lanka, wherein they are trying to force the Government of India to support a UN resolution censoring the island nation on the issue of human rights. The church … Read More
The archetypal states of the green revolution are shriveling under the cumulative impact of the overuse of chemical pesticides and fertilisers, hybrid monoculture, and over extraction of ground water, all of which have ravaged the soil health and affected productivity. Further, in just one decade, yields have peaked in genetically … Read More
Former Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja has thrown the gauntlet before the Congress that dominates the UPA coalition by threatening to go on hunger strike on the Parliament premises if he is not permitted to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee which is examining alleged irregularities in allocation of 2G spectrum … Read More
Agnes Gonxha, the Albanian nun who became famous as Mother Teresa, was a political tool of the Vatican, adroit in legitimizing corrupt dictators and outright crooks rather than in serving the sick and dying in whose name she earned her enviable reputation and fabulous wealth. Far from being a saviour, … Read More
Amidst a veil of secrecy and tight security, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur attended her father’s funeral on Monday and promptly set off for jail in Bhopal. The Special Judge (NIA) Bhopal, Vijay Kumar Pandey, on March 3, 2013, gave special permission to Sadhvi Pragya to attend her father’s funeral on … Read More
The Ram Setu, a land bridge between our southeastern coast in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, and a valuable civilisational heritage, is being endangered by the UPA coalition, which, frightened by Andimuthu Raja’s move to testify before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the 2G Spectrum scam, has revived the Setusamudram … Read More
Teesta Setalvad, a Mumbai-based journalist, who, like former IAS officer Harsh Mander, shot to national and international fame due to high profile activism over the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat in March 2002, has been unmasked in a most unseemly manner. Over the past decade, Setalvad survived controversies with former protégé … Read More
By granting a six week stay on the death sentence of four aides of ivory and sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, the Supreme Court has heightened emotions in Jammu and Kashmir over the hanging of Afzal Guru, and strengthened feelings in some quarters that the President did an injustice by rejecting the … Read More
Amidst a near-complete media blackout and distressing silence from statutory bodies like the National Human Rights Commission, a serious communal flare up has taken place in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, with more than 200 Hindu homes torched and looted in four villages of Naliakhali, Herobhanga, Gopalpur and … Read More
