Pukar lo, tumhara intezar hai..: Gulzar at 92 and the Architecture of Human Emotion
When August 18 arrives, Indian cinema and literature pause to honor a master craftsman whose pen has quietly defined the emotional vocabulary of multiple generations. Turning 92, the poet, lyricist, filmmaker, and author born Sampooran Singh Kalra stands as a monument to cultural continuity—a rare artist who bridged the grand Urdu literary tradition of the […]
‘Why do education ministers, officials send their kids to private schools’, asks CJP founder Dipke
New Delhi, 18 August—In an embarrassing question to country’s ruling establishment, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijit Dipke today asked as why education ministers and officials send their children to private schools and not to government schools. The question posed by Dipke raises some fundamental questions as the right to equal opportunity under Right […]
Supreme Court Panel to Probe Police Excesses Against Jantar Mantar Protesters
(Photo) Courtesy : Deshabhimani New Delhi, 18 August—In a significant development likely to have negative bearing on the Modi government, the Supreme Court today said that a high-level committee, comprising a retired CBI DG and a former DGP of state, will be formed to look into the allegations of police excesses during the recent Cockroach […]
RAM TEMPLE DONATION THEFT: SIT’S CLEAN CHIT TO CHAMPAT RAI
(Photo) Courtesy : Dynamite News NEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the alleged fraud at the Ayodhya Ram Temple has absolved the former general secretary Champat Rai and ex-trust member Anil Mishra of any criminal or procedural responsibility in the matter in the final report. Both had resigned from the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi […]
PAK SUPREME COURT SHIFTS IMRAN KHAN TO PRIVATE HOSPITAL
(Photo) Courtesy : Free Press Journal NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the immediate transfer of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail to a private hospital following escalating medical concerns regarding severe vision deterioration in his right eye. It ordered authorities to transfer former Prime Minister Imran Khan to Shifa International […]
AAP’S COPYRIGHT CRACKDOWN ON JOURNALISTS
NEW DELHI: As laws around what can be posted on social media keep evolving, so is the anxiety over state crackdowns and mass content takedowns. A recent example is the restrictions and removals of content critical of the Narendra Modi government in the wake of the Gen Z movement. Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal […]
SC SEEKS ADVICE ON RAM MANDIR SIT PROBE
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has permitted the petitioners and other bona fide public-spirited persons to suggest aspects requiring investigation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged embezzlement of offerings made by devotees at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The Court directed that such suggestions be submitted to the office of Solicitor General […]
HALF OF CHIEF MINISTERS FACE SERIOUS CRIMINAL CASES, SC TOLD
NEW DELHI: In the decade-old proceedings for expediting trials in criminal case against sitting/former MPs/MLAs, amicus curiae and senior advocate Vijay Hansaria has informed the Supreme Court that there are serious criminal cases against chief ministers of 14 of the 28 states, a list topped by Telangana’s A Revanth Reddy who faces 89 cases. West […]
