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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
I am not the poster boy of BJP: Harpreet Singh, calls out party for using his photo without permission
Harpreet Singh, now well known as Harp Farmer, will also send a legal notice to BJP Punjab for using his ‘happy farmer’ photo for a propaganda poster
India fails to ratify International Convention on Enforced Disappearance that turns ten!
A closer look into the countries that are yet to ratify it and acknowledge the human rights violation
UP: Hand over cowshed project fund or we will release 15,000 cows!
Panchayat Chiefs express anger at the Yogi-government for failing to provide funds under the ‘Gaushala project,’ to build a shed for animal husbandry.
Our father, Sanjiv Bhatt is paying the price for being, honest, upright, courageous: Aakashi & Shantanu
Sanjiv Bhatt has now spent over two years, and three months in jail, for a 30 year old case, his children wrote an open letter on his birthday December 21
Catch 22, the BJP CAA and Shah’s Chronology in Bengal ?
Mixed messages do not make for a clear electoral campaign and the aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party, which previously campaigned for the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state, is now seen downplaying both, the implementation of CAA and NRC as Bengal gears into poll mode.
Tagore & BJP can’t go together: Students protest Amit Shah’s Visit to Visva-Bharati
Protesting Students burnt effigies of Shah, PM Modi and Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty near the varsity central office. The union home minister faced strong protests in Tagore’s karmabhoomi
AIFRTE slams Centre for suggesting scrapping reservation in IIT faculty recruitment
The move was also condemned by IIT Bombay’s Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle for its casteist ignorance
CITU grieves the loss of beloved Punjab leader Raghunath Singh
Party members paid homage to the beloved leader who struggled for the state peasantry
Why is Bihar asking for a ‘Love Jihad’ law?
The demand comes from a Hindutva outfit members to curb the alleged rise in cases of religious conversions
Gopesh Das: A victim of institutional murder
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As his wife rotted behind bars in a detention camp, Das died alone of a broken heart and crushed hopes of her release
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