-The Indian Express What does the UP government so ferociously seek to protect — after having violated every possible fundamental right of its people? This article shall neither delve into whether a rape happened or someone simply went missing while going into the field, nor the atrocity of dragging someone by their dupatta while injuring their neck and spinal cord. The authors shall not devote space to how abominable the incident is....
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Centre objects to ‘tinkering’ with MSP to verify if farmers burnt paddy stubble
-The Indian Express The top court also issued notices to the Centre and Punjab, Haryana and Delhi governments on a plea by Class XII student Aditya Dubey and law student Aman Banka, which sought directions to provide free of cost stubble-removing machines to small and marginal farmers to check the menace. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta Tuesday objected to a proposal to withhold a part of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) to verify...
More »State can’t term economic decline due to pandemic a ‘public emergency’: Supreme Court
-The Hindu It quashes Gujarat notification exempting factories from paying overtime wages to workers during lockdown between April 20 and July 19 New Delhi: The State cannot declare the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic a “public emergency”to curtail the rights of people, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. The pandemic had not resulted in an ‘internal disturbance’ of a nature that posed a ‘grave emergency’ whereby the security of India was threatened,...
More »‘No plot’ to demolish Babri, all acquitted -Piyush Srivastava
-PTI/ The Telegraph Judgment concludes a 28-year-old chapter stemming from one of the darkest incidents in Indian history Lucknow: A special CBI court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 surviving accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case, denying any conspiracy by the assembled BJP and VHP heavyweights and blaming the vandalism on “anti-social elements” who had infiltrated the kar sevaks. The judgment concludes a 28-year-old chapter stemming from one of the darkest incidents in...
More »An Expert Explains: Farm Acts and federalism -Faizan Mustafa
-The Indian Express As Opposition and regional parties protest the contentious farm laws, now challenged in Supreme Court, engaging with the key question: Does the enactment of the laws violate the federal principle? On Sunday, the President gave assent to the controversial farm Bills passed by Parliament last week. Amid protests by farmers’ organisations across the country, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Punjab have said they might not implement the new laws, Kerala and...
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