Opposition Demands Supreme Court Judge Probe Into Alleged Ayodhya Ram Mandir Donation Scam
New Delhi, 26 June— What began with an allegation by Samajwadi MLA Pawan Pande earlier this month, the case of loot and embezzlement of donations at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has turned out to be a massive political scandal causing huge embarrassment for the double engine government of the BJP. More the ruling party […]
Partition Nostalgia – Where To Draw The Line
Released this month, Imtiaz Ali’s Main Wapas Aaunga, a story of love, loss, and nostalgia, and of humans killing, or being killed, during India’s 1947 Partition, has won critical and popular acclaim. It is located in Sargodha, now in Pakistan. Journalist-writer Nona Walia, who traces her roots there but has not seen it, says of this […]
Amazing story of Justice Murlidhar reads like a fairy tale
New Delhi, 26 June—An obvious victim of the mechanisms of the country’s judicial system, Justice S Murlidhar’s scathing report accusing Israeli security forces of deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children reads like a fairy tale raising hope against hope that such honest, courageous and upright judges exist. Six years ago in February 2020, as deadly […]
Turning History into a Political Lesson: Why NCERT’s Emergency Section Fails Class 9
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) recently released a revised Class IX social science textbook, Understanding Society, India and Beyond: Part 1 (25 June 2026). One of its most contested additions is a section on the Emergency (1975–77) under a chapter titled “Democracy,” framed as part of “Challenges to democratic practices in […]
CHAMPAT RAI QUITS AMID RAM MANDIR DONATION ROW
NEW DELHI: Champat Rai, 80-year old general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, an independent body that manages the Ayodhya shrine, and trustee Anil Mishra have submitted their resignations, an official confirmed. Champat Rai hailing from Bijnor district in U.P. is a vice-president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and he was the […]
MANY DELHI DUST STORMS BECAUSE OF BROKEN ARAVALLI SHIELD
NEW DELHI: Delhi faced many dust storms this June because of the slow collapse of its natural defence: Aravallis, one of the planet’s oldest mountain systems, a 650km spine of hills that runs from Delhi through Haryana and Rajasthan into Gujarat. For ages, it has worked as a natural wall, blunting the hot, sand-laden winds […]
A People’s Movement and Democratic Resistance is the Way Forward
(An Essential Reading for Every Ex-Serviceman, Youth, Women , and Conscious Citizen of Uttarakhand). Are you concerned about the present condition of Uttarakhand?Can democracy be safeguarded solely through elections?Is silence not, in itself, a form of consent?If you believe that the social, economic, and political challenges confronting Uttarakhand cannot be resolved by remaining passive spectators, […]
