India faced a second and worse wave of COVID-19 pandemic a few months back. The unemployment problem is looming large in the country. At this juncture, the country requires journalism to tell the stories of courage, of loss and grief and also of resilience, of the state of preparedness and about the efforts being made by communities, individuals, civil society and government. For better media coverage of critical issues like human...
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Police 'Tried To Pull The Wool Over Our Eyes': Court On Delhi Riots Case
-PTI/ NDTV.com The court discharged former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain's brother Shah Alam and two others in a case related to alleged loot and vandalization of a shop during the riots. New Delhi: A court in Delhi on Thursday came down heavily on the Delhi Police for its probe into a 2020 riots case, saying that its failure to conduct a proper investigation will "torment" the sentinels of Democracy when history will...
More »Scholar predicts India's shift into ethnic Democracy under Modi -Amit Roy
-The Telegraph Christophe Jaffrelot says 'minorities are second class citizens', and authoritarianism risks reaching a 'point of no return' in the country London: A French scholar who has studied Narendra Modi’s politics and policies over the past 20 years has just published a 639-page book on the Prime Minister in which he predicts that India’s transformation into an ethnic Democracy, “where minorities are second class citizens”, and authoritarianism risks reaching a “point...
More »'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...
More »Rajya Sabha clears general insurance bill amid shocking scenes -Damini Nath and Sobhana K Nair
-The Hindu Entire Opposition was united in their call to send the Bill to a select committee The contentious General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021 was passed amidst shocking scenes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday despite the Opposition’s demand to send the legislation to a select committee. The Rajya Sabha passed the Bill that would allow the government to cut its share in public sector insurance companies, paving the way for...
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