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17.10.19 - Markandey Katju
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Recently the Senior Supreme Court lawyer,, Dr Rajeev Dhavan, whom I had praised in my article ' Rajeev Dhavan, the Atticus Finch of our times' was criticised by some people for tearing some paper in the Courtroom in the Supreme Court when the Babri Masjid Ram ...
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BABRI RAM JANAMBHOOMI DISPUTE
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12.10.19 - Markandey Katju
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I did not know that Lt Gen Zameeruddin Shah, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Indian army, and former Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, whom I know well, could be so naive.
 Gen Shah is a highly decorated Indian army officer, and has an ...
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KASHMIR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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11.10.19 - Markandey Katju
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The Jammu & Kashmir Administration, headed by that modern Nero, has issued full page advertisements in local Kashmiri newspapers asking the people to end their 'self imposed' shutdown, and resume normal lives. This fatuity really takes the cake.
Does that fat caporegime (whose Don and Consiglieri ...
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DELIVERY OF THE FIRST RAFALE JET TO INDIA
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08.10.19 - Markandey Katju
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The delivery of the first Rafale jet fighter by France to India is being celebrated with great fanfare and hoopla, as if India has secured a huge triumph. The Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, was shown in Indian Air Force uniform going on the plane's ...
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01.10.19 - Cyber Satyagrahis.
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Tomorrow is the 58th day of Kashmir lock-down. For fifty-eight days, while the government claims all is normal in Kashmir, the 8 million people of Kashmir live under constant curfew, without access to modes of communication or information.
 Tomorrow is also Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary. ...
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CHANDIGARH — Leading public intellectuals, political and civil liberties activists, who were forcibly stopped from proceeding towards the trouble-torn valley of Kashmir, today slammed the Centre, the J-K administration and also the Punjab Government and said all these were hand in glove when it came ...
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The Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi came down heavily on the Kejriwal government for imposing odd-even restrictions on the most sacred fortnight of Guru Nanak Sahib’s 550th birth-anniversary celebrations.
SADD chief Paramjit Singh Sarna wondered why the AAP chief minister, facing elections in some months, instead skipped ...
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DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT
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Now that the unnecessary but huge damage to the environment has been done by unscientific widening of Kalka-Kumarhatti stretch of the Kalka-Shimla Highway, the government and the National Green Tribunal must step in to learn lessons and avoid similar damage in the second stretch of ...
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S. Sasikanth Senthil, a 2009 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer and Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, has resigned from the civil services on Friday.
According to The Hindu, he said it was "unethical” on his part to continue as civil servant when "fundamental ...
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A journalist who reported that the school children, who come from very poor families, were being given just rotis with salt, is now being targeted by the Yogi government. The same District Magistrate who earlier had claimed that he had inquired and found ...
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CARDIOLOGIST QUIZZED BY ANTI-TERROR AGENCY
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Prominent Delhi based cardiologist Dr Upendra Kaul was summoned on Friday by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to explain a SMS exchange he had with his patient Yasin Malik, the Kashmiri Hurriyat leader in jail.
While surprise and outrage ...
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SRINAGAR LOCKDOWN, A REPORTER AND HIS SISTER'S MISCARRIAGE
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A journalist normally tells tales of other people, but at times, a moment arrives when his own tale becomes a representative of the life experience of millions. With his pregnant sister in hospital, this journalist could travel in the Kashmir valley more freely than ...
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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that India and Pakistan could handle their dispute over occupied Kashmir on their own, but he was there should they need him.
Trump has previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on ...
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Days after resigning, IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who says he quit as he wanted to express his views against the "denial of freedom of expression” in Kashmir, on Sunday said people of the Valley have to be convinced on the Article 370 decision, but it ...
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Resist Majoritarianism & Threats to Federalism & Constitutional Values
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CHANDIGARH: Giving a resounding clarion call to India’s wider citizenry that believes in Constitutional values and democratic principles, a widely attended conclave of region’s activists, intellectuals, academicians, religious and political leaders demanded immediate roll back of Modi government’s move on Article 370, restoration of Art ...
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'INDIA HAS LET DOWN KASHMIR'
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In a boldly worded joint statement that amounts to scathing criticism of the Narendra Modi government's handling of the Kashmir issue, more than 200 top writers and cultural activists of India said the BJP regime has made "a mockery of democracy," "violated (its) solemn promises" ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ORDER REVOKING ARTICLE 370
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Constitutional propriety apart, the Presidential Order revoking Article 370 is patently illegal as it would defeat the very legal structure of Article 370, which has in fact been laid down by the apex court to be ‘not temporary’, according to Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda.
Reacting ...
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CHANDIGARH, AUGUST 5 - Terming it as totally unconstitutional, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday flayed the manner in which the Centre had imposed its decision on Kashmir, saying the democratic fabric of the nation had been ripped apart with this unprecedented violation of ...
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The newly enacted law which makes the practice of instant divorce through 'triple talaq' among Muslims a punishable offence was challenged in the Supreme Court on Friday.
A day after President Ram Nath Kovind gave assent to The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, ...
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