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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
Farmers reject government’s repackaged old amendment proposal
Denouncing the so-called “new” offer of the central government, farmers call for sit-ins at district level
BJP sweeps Rajasthan local body elections
Congress flounders in both, Panchayat and Zilla Parishad elections
Part-2: Identity of the ‘Ordinary Indian’
How such a notion so obviously a product of given historical circumstances had become rock-hard common sense?
Assam charity slapped with ‘sedition’ charges!
AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal’s trust, Ajmal Foundation, accused of receiving funds from foreign terror groups; allegations emerge after AIUDF-Congress alliance for BTC polls
Cannot disclose PM’s entourage details for security reasons: IAF plea in Delhi HC
Indian Air Force has moved Delhi HC against CIC order directing disclosure of Special Flight Returns-II and other details of the PM’s foreign trips
Talks with Amit Shah fail: Farmers firm on demand for the repeal of the anti-farmer laws
Farmers’ leaders stood firm and said that they would not accept the three laws forcibly passed by the government
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On World Genocide Prevention Day, let us take a look at some of the most shameful chapter's in world history
Bharat Bandh became a reckoning for the central government: farmers’ leaders
After the grand success of Bharat Bandh, people now look towards discussions between farm leaders and the central government.
India not in US State Department’s list of ‘Countries of Particular Concern’
China, Pakistan named, but India dodges bullet along with Russia, Syria and Vietnam, despite USCIRF recommendation
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