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Meet Giriraj Singh Malinga, an MLA from Rajasthan’s Bari, who got a Dalit engineer beaten half to death: He wreaked havoc during his three-term MLAship with the Congress and now eyes a fourth term with the BJP!
During its infancy, politics in India was predominantly considered a generous affair. Only those people who were either academic intellectuals or had a clean and virtuous reputation were requested (by their people and political parties) to contest elections and take up the venerated task of represen
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After the infamous ‘Agniveer,’ the Modi Government plans to save Rs 4000 crores via the New Disability Pension Scheme: ‘Surgical strike’ against our own soldiers?
On September 21st, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that as per the recommendation of a committee headed by a ‘top military officer,’ the rules for the grant of ‘disability pensions’ to military personnel were getting amended under the ‘Entitlement Rules for Casu
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Malpractices and Manipulations: CAG illustrates blatant blunders in the Modi government’s accounting mechanisms
In August, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, also known as the “Watchdog of the Public Purse,” issued twelve critical audit reports that illustrated glaring discrepancies in the finances of several departments of the Modi government. One of the twelve audit reports was
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BJP leader floats corruption charges against sitting Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, gets immediately sacked ahead of state polls
On September 13th, Rajasthan State BJP President and Speaker of Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha, CP Joshi, parted ways with another Veteran BJP Leader, Kailash Chandra Meghwal, following his public criticism of the incumbent Union Minister Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghawal (ARM). Kailash Meghwal is a six-t
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Fake it but don’t make it: Hundreds of stray dogs illegally removed from Delhi to foster a ‘rosy’ image during the G20 Summit
Turn on the TV, and you shall find shows promulgating how Prime Minister Modi has been strengthening “Bharat’s” brand on the international stage. If you tune in to any corporate news channel, the footage of international delegates and heads of state relishing the Indian culture, wi
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State of Manipur vs. EGI Journalists: Supreme Court relieves four journalists from getting arrested over the “Manipur Fact-finding Report” case
On September 6th, a Supreme Court bench headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra protected the four journalists from getting arrested over an allegedly biased “fact-finding report” on the brutal ethnic clashes plaguing Manipur since the past four month
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India is walking the American way: Business Tycoon Subhash Chandra gets Rs 5,000 crore relief despite defaulting
On September 2nd, Yes Bank’s Asset Reconstruction Company named “JC Flowers” wavered off Rs 5,000 crore worth of loans to India’s media mogul Subhash Chandra Goenka! Now, he is entitled to pay just Rs 1,500 crore of the borrowed Rs 6,500 crore loan. As the bone of contention
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The nexus between Religion and State: Why erecting statues of Netaji Bose means a little in ‘modern India?’
We are living in confusing times. On January 23rd, 2021, on Netaji’s 125th Birth Anniversary, an event was held at Kolkata’s Victoria Memorial. In the presence of Prime Minister Modi, a section of the audience sloganed “Jay Shri Ram” to allegedly offend Bengal’s Chief M
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VHP carries out “Braj Mandal Yatra” in riot-affected Nuh despite bar from Law enforcers: Why can’t the flag bearers of ‘spirituality’ tolerate India’s constitutional pluralism?
On July 31st, 2023, clashes emerged in the Nuh district of Haryana when the yearly Braj Mandal Yatra, organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), passed through the communally sensitive areas of the state. By the evening of the same day, communal clashes fissured out to the nearby districts of Gur
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PM Modi and Xi Jinping meet officially for the first time since the Galwan standoff: Why is Modi not showing ‘Laal-Aankh’ to China?
In 2013, the then-Gujarat Chief Minister and one of the strongest contestants for the Prime Minister’s chair, Narendra Modi, during one of his electoral rallies, tore into the UPA government and grilled India’s foreign minister Salman Khurshid, saying the latter should have raised issues
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Unchaining the liberators of young minds: Why is the independence of educational institutes cardinal in protecting India’s democracy?
On August 14th, a video featuring a clip from an online class session hosted by a tutor at Unacademy, Karan Sangwan, went viral on Twitter. In the 37-second-long video, Sangwan was urging his students to vote for an ‘educated’ person in the next elections. Some active functionaries of th
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Cashing in on the ‘elite bias’: How an MP’s fake degree is a grave insult to the genuinely underprivileged section of India’s democracy
Recently, the age-old debate on the necessity of making a minimal educational background mandatory for the legislators of India got reinvigorated after discrepancies regarding BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s MBA (Masters of Business Administration) degree emerged. The observers of Indian politics are
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Censorship of Opposition by Sansad TV: Rahul Gandhi gets only 40% of screen time for his speech in the Lok Sabha proceedings on the ‘no-confidence’ motion
Recently, when the Members of Parliament (MPs) of the Opposition parties delivered their speeches during the ‘no-confidence motion’ against the Modi Government in Lok Sabha, the tax-payer-funded Sansad TV’s camerapersons and co-ordinators focussed on the Speaker of the House Om Bir
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Ayushman Bharat PMJAY “Modi-Care” Scam: 7.5 lakh people got linked to a single invalid phone number
On August 7th, a report submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India shed light on the hazardous discrepancies and scams getting executed under the Centre’s flagship scheme, Ayushman Bharat: Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY). In its report submitted before the Rajy
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RPF Constable Shooting: Statements contradict as unscrutinised video suggesting communal incitement emerges
On July 31st, at 5 in the morning, a horrendous incident shook the passengers in the Mumbai-bound Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express. The travellers got terrorised when a 33-year-old RPF constable, Chetan Singh, barraged 12 rounds from his automatic service weapon to murder four unsuspecting in
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Finding NaMo: Opposition moves “no-confidence motion” to drag the PM to the parliament
On Wednesday, July 26th, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi submitted a written appeal before the Speaker of Lok Sabha seeking a “no-confidence motion” against Prime Minister Modi and the National Development Alliance (NDA). Gogoi represented the alliance of 26 parties under the Indian National De
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The judge who dissents: CJI DY Chandrachud’s passive battle against IT Cell and Jingoists
CJI DY Chandrachud, the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI), presently finds himself in the eye of a storm. Lately, Justice Chandrachud has become the target for unrefined discourses across social media sites. Online campaigns through institutionalised troll armies and digital media ‘influencers
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From a ‘caged parrot’ to a ‘vulture on leash’, how ED has become a tool for a Political Witch Hunt
A public petitioner appealed before the Honorable Supreme Court, seeking its judicial activism on Enforcement Directorate (ED) Chief Sanjay Mishra’s questionable tenure extension for the third time under the BJP Government. The Supreme Court bench headed by Justice B.R. Gavai, Justice Vi
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Bulldozer Raj: An Eyesore to civil society
In the States of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, “bulldozer justice” is in high demand. “Baba and Mama” (Yogi Adityanath and Shivraj Singh Chouhan) display their strongman image by bulldozing the houses and livelihood of the accused while the police and the judiciary sit li
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Pawar vs. Pawar 2.0: What next for Maharashtra politics?
Sharad Pawar’s legacy is befitting of fetching him the title of one of the most “interesting and astute” components in the history of Indian politics. This octogenarian has battled numerous coups, allegations, adversaries, and even oral cancer and has always emerged victorious.&nbs
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