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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The 15th of June marked the beginning of an indefinite fast by Medha Patkar, for justice in the Narmada valley. The demands from this fast include rehabilitation of all the remaining project affected as per the laws, policies, and Supreme Court orders.
The police said there are 12 cases pending against Pottam – who has raised her voice against police brutality – though their details are unknown either to Pottam or to the lawyers’ group that is fighting for her release.
It is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood — democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since ‘Roe v. Wade’ was overturned in 2022, according to a research letter published in the journal ‘JAMA Internal Medicine’.
Ever since Modi took over the reins of the Central Government in 2014, his government has been embroiled in innumerable scams, from demonetisation to the PM Cares scam to whitewashing the corruption cases against opposition politicians after they join the BJP. But the electoral bonds scam puts all previous scams in the shade.
The former Supreme Court judge says that the Supreme Court has erred and cannot be proud of its Kashmir judgement, in which it upheld the Union government’s move to read down Article 370.
Even though the Chief Justice of India’s past record gave the nation hope for transformative judicial reform to uphold constitutional morality and fortify fundamental rights under attack from the executive, his tenure has thus far been marked by one letdown after another.
BJP’s subversion of the electoral process and Modi’s communal rhetoric undermine credentials of democracy in India. It is time to use the only democratic weapon people have, the vote, responsibly.
From Prajwal Revanna, Brij Bhushan, Manipur, Kathua and Hathras, the Bhartiya Janata Party has a history of supporting alleged sexual offenders.
Responsibilities of the state governments are being slowly overtaken by the Centre, keen as it is to take credit for all welfare programmes. Meanwhile, state coffers are not getting the assistance they need from the Union government.
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