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 […]
SC defers Allahabad HC proceedings in Rahul Gandhi assets case, restrains CBI, ED from submitting reports
New Delhi, Aug. 17: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Allahabad High Court to defer its August 20 hearing in a petition alleging that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and members of his family possessed assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, and asked the CBI and the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) not […]
Ram Mandir offerings theft case: SC allows petitioners, bona fide citizens, to suggest areas for SIT probe
(Photo) Courtesy : National Herald New Delhi, Aug. 17: The Supreme Court on Monday 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 […]
The Song and the Sword: How Majoritarian Politics Misreads ‘Vande Mataram’
From Bankim’s pen to Tagore’s moral caution, the national song was woven into India’s pluralist struggle. Modern attempts to convert it into a tool of ideological coercion dishonour both history and the republic.In the political theatre of contemporary India, few symbols are subjected to as much synthetic fury as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram. Whenever […]
A CONSTITUTIONAL APPEAL FOR EQUAL RULE OF LAW, INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY AND FISCAL IMPARTIALITY
The true test of a constitutional democracy is not how the law operates in ordinary circumstances, but whether the State has the courage and institutional integrity to apply the same law when confronted with political influence, religious sentiment, numerical strength, social pressure or electoral considerations. This is therefore a respectful but unequivocal appeal to the […]
Decoding the Red Fort’s New Lexicon: ‘Dimagi Naxals’ and the Politics of Isolation
From the ramparts of history, a call that blurs security and dissent On the morning of India’s 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood once more on the ramparts of the Red Fort and delivered a speech that mixed the familiar cadence of developmental ambition with a sharper, more disquieting note. Amid announcements of […]
Erasing the Sultanate: Delhi University’s Syllabus Revision and the Politics of Forgetting
When a premier institution drops a course on state formation, authority, and cultural evolution, it is not curriculum reform—it is historical amnesia by design. Delhi University’s recently revised postgraduate history syllabus has quietly excised a cornerstone course: The Delhi Sultanate: Structures of Authority in Medieval North India (13th–14th Centuries). Taught for decades in Semester III, […]
