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"Notorious Drug Peddler Kinda"
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"Yaar, samajh nahi aunda police di support kariye ke lokan di? Police utte hamle vee galat hun, par police ne vee treeka theek nahi apnaiya."
On a number of social media platforms, including WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages, several well-meaning activists and concerned citizens, taken aback ...
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Right to free speech is one of our most important fundamental rights and we are justifiably proud of it. An independent media is a corollary of this fundamental right even though there is no separate provision for freedom of the press.
Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
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10.10.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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A few days back I had written an article 'An appeal to my Kashmiri brothers and sisters' which was published online. In this article I mentioned that the restrictions in Kashmir for over 60 days after abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution on 5th ...
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FATHER OF NATION VS FATHER OF INDIA
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United States president Donald Trump recently shocked everyone by calling prime minister Narendra Modi as Father of India. Trump can be pardoned for his poor knowledge of the history of India and the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom struggle which earned him the ...
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04.10.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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Ever since the NRC (National Register of Citizens) was started in Assam, all states suddenly seem to be vying for it. Whether it is West Bengal, Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka, UP–everyone is rushing and making a beeline and mad scramble for it.
 I too am in favor ...
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FAILURE OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS
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30.09.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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"Hai maujazan ek kulzum-e-khoon, kaash yahi ho Aata hai abhi dekhiye, kya kya merey aage" (A turbulent sea of blood is before me But see what is coming ahead) - Mirza Ghalib
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29.09.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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A time comes to speak the truth, and I suppose that time has come and it is I who will have to bell the cat. So here it is:
Kashmir will soon become what Vietnam was for the French and the Americans, Afghanistan for the Russians, ...
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24.09.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED in India which reminds me of what happened in Germany during the Nazi era.
After Hitler took power in January 1933 almost the whole of Germany went mad, people shouting ‘ Heil Hitler‘, ‘Sieg Heil ‘, ‘Juden Verecke‘, and adoring that madman like ...
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THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE & LIBERTY
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20.09.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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The most important case going on in India today is not the Babri Masjid/ Ram Mandir dispute but the trial of the Indian Supreme Court by the people of India. And a litmus test in this trial will be the behaviour of the Court in ...
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UNDERSTANDING WHY IT IS DONE?
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A recent article by Dr Swarajbir, Editor, Punjabi Tribune, and one of the leading influential voices of our times in this region, has caught the imagination of the larger intellectual world. A number of our readers who have an equal felicity with the English language ...
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WHY THE OUTCOME OF THE LYNCHING CASE MUST CONCERN US ALL
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Freedom is indivisible. "The chains on any one of my people,” Nelson Mandela reminded us, "were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.”
There are many things that trouble me about India today. One is ...
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IS IT FAIR TO BLAME SC COLLEGIUM?
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14.09.19 - JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU
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Since I had been chief justice of the Madras High Court (2004-2005), I have always been keenly concerned about the functioning of that court and keep myself informed of developments there.
Recently, I came to know that the chief justice of the Madras High Court, Vijaya ...
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07.09.19 - Saba Pervaiz Kiyani
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Through time and through histories, when a legend of love erupts, tales or emotions make it clear that those is love usually disregard religious and social restrictions. When these tales fail, the lovers abandon their amorous intentions because of religious and social pressures. When these ...
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India is among the leading countries as far as the number of road accidents and deaths are concerned. About 1.50 lakh lives are lost every year in the country in road accidents. In other words one road accident takes place every minute and one person ...
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APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF
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The announcement by prime minister Narendra Modi that the country would have a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is a long due and welcome step. This had been the need of defence forces since long and is in keeping with the requirements of modern warfare.
Most ...
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SONIA GANDHI RETURNS TO LEAD
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14.08.19 - Pushkar Banakar
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It is more good than bad for the Congress with Sonia Gandhi coming back at the helm of party affairs. Her appointment was pivotal at this juncture to unify the party. With some big names including the likes of Karan Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora, ...
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PUNJAB & KASHMIR - PAST & PRESENT
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13.08.19 - Saba Pervaiz Kiyani
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AFTER THE PARTITION of India and Pakistan, the unresolved fate of princely state of Jammu and Kashmir aggravated the situation between the two nations, and they went into an undeclared war with each other. After India took the case to the United Nations, the international ...
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BULLETS CAN'T BRING PEACE
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They live side-by-side. They started off their journey together. They share history and in some instances much the same culture. They know it and the world knows all the good that they can do so simply by standing together.
Still, it appears that Pakistan and India ...
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Cricketer turned politician Navjot Sidhu, who has a knack to remain in the headlines, appears to have cut more than he could chew in his latest spat with chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
 By remaining adamant on not taking charge of his new portfolio as Power ...
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18.07.19 - kanwar manjit singh
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As shenanigans in the Karnataka Assembly are exploding on the national political scene, a similar drama in Punjab has gone either largely unreported or shockingly under-reported. Several Punjab MLAs have resigned from the Assembly and some had even quit the political party on whose ticket ...
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