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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
Why is NIA seeking to question Khalsa Aid, other volunteers now?
The NGO has recently been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Canadian politicians Tim Uppal and Patrick Brown
Three protesters die as farmers and Centre fail to break stalemate
While leaders bicker and avoid issues at hand, the death tally kept by farmers' organisations continues to rise
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan: Muslims for composite Indian nationalism
Changing names of places without understanding historical context is a sign of ignorance, not patriotism
Kangana Ranaut is whining about Twitter, on Twitter, for Twitter restricting her!
Her account reportedly got restricted for some time after she ranted against Tandav creators and allegedly tweeted that it was “time to take their heads off”
Adani defamation case: Guj court issues arrest warrant against Paranjaoy Guha Thakurta
The 2017 case relates to an article in The Wire about changes to SEZ rules to favour Adani
Farmers wiser than the Prime Minister: Rahul Gandhi
The Congress leader claimed that the new farm laws will put the entire agriculture sector in the hands of three or four crony capitalists
Illegal Rohingya migrants arrested in Delhi and Tripura
While two were arrested in Delhi, 10 more were caught on a Delhi-bound train
Of fishes and fouls
Presumably the contract of getting Nidhi Razdan off the track and keeping her absorbed in a delusory prospect had been assigned to one of the many seedy but well-equipped agencies so thriving now in the land of liberty
Gujarat: 15 people including toddler killed after being run over by truck
A group of migrant labourers was asleep on a Surat footpath when the mishap occurred
Jharkhand scholarship scam: District welfare official suspended
This is the first punitive step taken by the state against an official, after it launched an investigation into the illegal diversion of scholarship fund
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