Politics

More than 36 ordinances were passed without any debate, including in two Budget Sessions, during Girish Gautam’s tenure.

Despite repeated political rhetoric, two separate parliamentary replies reveal that the Union Home Ministry neither defines nor maintains data on so-called "Urban Naxals

In the ongoing Parliament session, the Ministry put forth data to indicate that total unemployment rate for 2020-21 was at 4.2%

Human rights organisations pick and choose whose freedom of speech – and other human rights – they are going to defend

With the main opposition party in the state, the Indian National Congress, vocally opposing the move, the issue of installation of Savarkar's portrait is likely to result in a rocky Winter Session

This article is on the unveiling of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s portrait, in 2003, first in the premises of Indian Parliament and then, two months later, in the Maharashtra assembly. It was published in Communalism Combat, April 2003. By well-known historian, Anil Nauriya, it offers an insight into both the man himself and his politics.

The Rohingyas who were arrested were about to catch a train for travelling outside the Northeast, in search of shelter and jobs, according to the police version

"Two professions have to be necessarily independent, a judge and a journalist. If they falter, democracy suffers."

The 26-year-old Iranian football player Amir Nasr-Azadani is facing the threat of execution

During an online press conference, they claimed that the proposed data protection Bill is used to take the essence of RTI law. Civil societies and journalists should speak up.