The Delhi Police waited for five months before asking the Delhi Metro for surveillance footage pertaining to the Delhi riots in February 2020. By Betwa Sharma At least three separate investigations into the 2020 Delhi Riots seek to establish exactly what transpired at the Jafrabad metro station in the last few days of February. […]
Rahul Gandhi may join protests in Punjab. DMK wants to go to court over farm bills in Tamil Nadu. By Rohini Chatterji Farmers protests in parts of India went into a third day with Youth Congress workers from Punjab burning a tractor in front of the India Gate in New Delhi. Videos from Monday morning […]
Opinions from ministries helmed by cabinet minister Nitin Gadkari were sought 10 days after the deadline for public consultation about draft EIA 2020 passed, without setting any specific date for their replies. By Akshay Deshmane NEW DELHI—Ten days after the official deadline for public consultation about the controversial draft EIA 2020 passed, a senior environment ministry official wrote […]
Prasad was questioned by the Narcotics Control Bureau in a drugs case related to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. By Rohini Chatterji Film producer and a former executive producer of Dharmatic Entertainment, Kshitij Prasad told the Bombay High Court on Sunday that he was forced to “falsely implicate” filmmaker Karan Johar and others […]
By Neha Arora, Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s president on Sunday approved three controversial agricultural bills amid nationwide protests by farmers who say the new laws will stunt their bargaining power and instead allow large retailers to have control over pricing. Farmers’ organisations say one of the three laws could lead to the government […]
ANALYSIS GOVERNMENT Far more Bills were sent to select committees for review under the two UPA regimes headed by Manmohan Singh. The Wire Analysis GOVERNMENT New Delhi: On September 22, eight opposition MPs of the Rajya Sabha spent the night by the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the lawns of parliament, the country’s highest law-making body. […]
ANALYSIS COMMUNALISM Claim of January 8 plot to time riots with Trump’s visit dropped, Delhi Police now says entire anti-CAA protest was part of ‘terrorist’ plot to engineer large-scale riots ‘at suitable time’, with the ‘conspirators’ seeking to ‘reclaiming… turf’ lost as a result of BJP’s victory in 2019 elections. Siddharth Varadarajan COMMUNALISM New Delhi: The […]
By Alasdair Pal, Nivedita Bhattacharjee NEW DELHI/BENGALURU, India (Reuters) – India’s coronavirus infections surged again on Wednesday, a day after falling to their lowest figure in almost a month. In the last 24 hours, there were 83,347 new cases, with 1,085 deaths, federal health data showed. India, with a population of about 1.4 billion, has been consistently […]
The freelance journalist was arrested on 14 September under the Official Secrets Act. By Akshita Jain After the arrest of freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma in connection with a case under the Official Secrets Act, China’s state-run Global Times said it’s “inappropriate” for India to publicly link the publication to this case and “create a sensation to […]
Eight opposition MPs including Derek O’Brien, Sanjay Singh, Rajeev Satav and KK Ragesh were suspend for their conduct in Parliament on Sunday. By Rohini Chatterji The eight Rajya Sabha MPs including Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Sanjay singh, Congress’s Rajeev Satav and CPM’s KK Ragesh, who were suspended for alleged misconduct, are now […]
