New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- It was an outcome none anticipated. Local body elections normally favour the incumbent party in power. Yet, in the recently held elections to the urban local bodies in Rajasthan... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The wafer-thin 5:4 majority ruling by a nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court calling for the revision of the term "industry" has drawn the ire of trade unions and Left parties.... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Two judgments. Two influential people. One an owner-editor, the other a former MP and influential politician from Uttar Pradesh. Both pleaded they were innocent and victims of a ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that his government had protected farmers from global urea price shocks and he exhorted farmers to go "from th... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- STUDENT PROTESTS The pressure created by student protests triggered by the paper leaks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) forced the resignation of the Union Edu... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. FromMotto, Bertolt Brecht, 1939. "Police uncle, police uncle, vasteguna hui... Read More
New Delhi, July 22 -- It is not just higher education that is in a state of crisis, needing a complete overhaul. The state of school education is no better if the latest UDISE+ data and report, releas... Read More
New Delhi, July 14 -- Surender Kumar, a landless peasant fromBahraichin Uttar Pradesh, has not seen his 19-year-old son,Alok, ever since the boy was picked up by the police and bundled off to a jail i... Read More