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'Totalitarian Govts Rely on Falsehoods to Establish Dominance': Justice D.Y. Chandrachud

-PTI/ TheWire.in "Democracy and truth go hand in hand. Democracy needs truth to survive," the Supreme Court judge said at a lecture. New Delhi: Totalitarian governments constantly rely on falsehoods in order to establish dominance and the citizen’s right to speak truth to power is integral to the functioning of a democracy, Supreme Court judge Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said on Saturday, August 28. LiveLaw, which covered the online lecture, reported on it with...

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The significance of the ‘there is no data’ answer -Seema Chishti

-The Hindu The Government’s consistent ‘no data’ declarations on important issues are a critical part of a larger political project It can be safely assumed that the popular American dictum, “In God we trust; all others must bring data”, is unlikely to be found in any office of the Narendra Modi government. There is mounting evidence to show that either the Government has ‘no data’ about issues that show it in a...

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Sedition for CAA School Play: Karnataka HC Says Police Violated JJ Act, Child Rights

-TheWire.in "Why children are subjected to all this? This has to be corrected, this can't go on like this," the court said. New Delhi: The Karnataka high court on Monday, August 17, observed that the presence of policemen in uniform, carrying firearms, while interrogating children in connection with a sedition case for an anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) theatre play staged at Shaheen Education Society in Bidar last year is in violation of...

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Only 15% Indians know about Pegasus. But once aware, their distrust of Modi govt grows -Rakesh Jain

-ThePrint.in Prashnam's 12-state survey shows a general lack of awareness. But among those who know what Pegasus is, a greater percentage say Modi government snoops on ordinary citizens. The Pegasus scandal has rocked India’s Parliament. The issue of Israeli spyware allegedly used for snooping on thousands of private citizens has been making headlines for the past two weeks across the world and in some sections of the Indian media. Reports continue to...

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Most households in rural Bihar faced livelihood crisis during the first wave of COVID-19, reveals a recent study

The pandemic's first wave had a devastating impact on the livelihoods of rural workers in Bihar (including the self-employed) last year, according to a survey based research, jointly done by economists from Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University, Australia and the New Delhi-based Institute for Human Development. A recent press note issued by the authors of the study shows that almost 94.4 percent of the households participating...

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