Ayodhya Lawyers Enraged Over Temple Fraud As Supreme Court Rejects Urgent Hearing
New Delhi, 29 June— The case of alleged embezzlement of donations collected at the Ram Temple has spiralled into a major embarrassment for the RSS-BJP ruling ecosystem as the Ayodhya Bar Association announced that none of its members would appear for the accused. There seems to be no respite as investigators widened the probe though […]
‘Ashamed they stayed so long’: Udhhav Thackeray lashes out at rebel MPs
New Delhi, 27 June— In a determined attempt to keep the morale of the party rank and file high, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday sought to reassure party workers after the recent defection of several MPs, asserting that the “true Shivsainiks” continued to stand by him while launching a sharp attack on leaders […]
Setback for M K Stalin as MDMK walks out of DMK-led Alliance
New Delhi, 27 June—In yet another setback to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) has formally withdrawn from the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA), ending a political association that the party said had lasted for nine years. “It is an open secret that arrangements were made to install […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rahul Gandhi demands apology from Dharmendra Pradhan for calling protesting students ‘terrorists’
New Delhi, 25 June— Lashing out at the Modi government for drowning in “arrogance of power”, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi has demanded Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s immediate apology over the statement that Cockroach Janata Party protesters are a “B-team of terrorists”. Evidence of arrogance of power reflects in Pradhan’s comment, the Congress leader said […]
Nation bewildered over ‘passport not proof of citizenship’, Modi government shrugs it off: ‘Not new rule’
New Delhi, 25 June—Even as a number of perplexed voices online outraged at the news about passports not being proof of citizenship, and linked it to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Centre unabashedly maintained that a passport has never been proof of citizenship. Making a common cause with the millions of […]
Iran’s invitation to India for Khamenei’s funeral traps Prime Minister Modi into a catch 22 situation
New Delhi, 24 June– Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s reported invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the burial ceremonies for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seems to have trapped India into a catch 22 situation. While the Modi government is neither confirming nor denying the invitation but sources said that Modi is not very […]
Dharmendra Pradhan breaks his silence calling Cockroach Janata Party as ‘B team of disruptive elements’
New Delhi, 23 June- Even as his government is trying to frustrate the newly emerged Cockroach Janata Party’s movement by tiring it out at the Janata Mantar where its founder Abhijit Dipke is on protest since June 20, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today broke his silence by attacking it sharply and labelled it as the […]
Congress demands SC judge led probe into Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Yadav’s land scam in Ujjain
New Delhi, 23 June—The RSS-BJP ecosystem is coming under tremendous popular pressure as after swindling of the donations running into crore of Rupees from the coffers of at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya last week, the media exposure of the massive land scam in Ujjain by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and his family […]