Politics

In the background of a bunch of writ petitions...

"Both the central and the state government are weaponising the constitutional provisions to destroy concepts of democratic dialogue, federalism and safeguarding of human rights.”

The union government’s controversial NEP, adopted by the erstwhile BJP-led Karnataka government institutionalises discrimination and dogma in education, it’s important to document concerns around it before it becomes a template for other states. Although the stated objective of the paper is to illustrate the importance of health, it embroils itself in irrational and unscientific propaganda that can be disastrous within an educational space.  

Lessons on KB Hedgewar and Savarkar to be removed from textbooks, Poem on Ambedkar re-inserted

An online discussion just before he Prime Minister’s visit to the United States, June 14, brings live the crucial issue of press freedom in India; India ranked 11th on CPJ’s 2022 impunity index, with unsolved cases of at least 20 journalists killed in retaliation for their work from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2022.

I suggest a new civic movement needs emerge with the aim of defending the Constitution and democratic institutions. Human rights defenders, activists and the people, who respect the Constitution should come to gather to fight to secure it to emerge victorious over the menace that hovers above us all.

In this interview to MaxMaharashtra, political scientist Suhas Palshikar, a household name has outlined the rational from writing to the union of India in protest, asking for his and Yogendra Yadav’s names removed from NCERT texts

Assam CM targets the Bengali Muslim community again, calls overuse of fertilisers a “sinister plan to attack the health of people”

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, however, dismissed ex-CEO, Jack Dorsey’s claims as an outright lie; Dorsey also claimed that India put pressure on platform during farmers’ stir

‘The main motive is to tell PM Modi and Amit Shah that he is in a position to damage the BJP’s prospects in Kaisarganj, Gonda, Balrampur, Faizabad and Shravasti constituencies’ and it is this political clout that he still carries a close associate of the MP told The Telegraph in Lucknow.