The Government of Odisha, led by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) under Chief Minister Mr. Naveen Patnaik, provides massive funding to revive all religious institutions and their practices in the…
New Delhi, January 9, 2024: The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) welcomes the landmark judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the ‘Bilkis Bano case’, striking down…
Cultivating temperate fruits, especially apples, plays a crucial role in shaping the economic landscape of India's hill states like Himachal Pradesh and the hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir. These…
What should the political feud between Indian National Congress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal be viewed as? Clearly, it would be erroneous to limit this only to their…
The Supreme Court today cancelled the early release of the 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The convicts will return…
D Y Chandrachud when took charge as Chief Justice of Indian Supreme Court (SC) in November 2022 (to relinquish office in November 2024) many of the pseudo-liberals who claimed to…
Increasing cold weather conditions have led to many vulnerable people remaining indoors as far as possible in Delhi. The pollution of the city mixed with fog and cold weather has…
1 This article is the sequel to my three previous articles on this subject namely – ‘Relevance of the Third Front’ (May 2014), Lok Sabha Elections 2019: A Perspective for…
Millions of Sikhs in India and abroad are perturbed over the well-established facts now that Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) instead of acting as protector of the Sikh clergy rather approved…
India is often referred to as a quasi-federal system as it embodies features of both federal and unitary systems, but successive governments with strong prime ministers at the centre and…
Twenty-one people were arrested on November 3/4th, and 20 were detained in Violation of due process of arrest[1]. They were taken to different police stations and detained at Vellore Central…
In these dark times, the sun is shining on one thing: i.e. a powerful peasant movement in India led by the left! The successful peasant movement against the current right-wing…
On 25th December, Prime Minister Mr. Narnedra Modi invited many Christians for an interaction and to greet them. He lauded the community for their social work and hailed the inclusive teachings of Lord…
A recent issue of the well-known international journal Economist exposes the Indian government’s misleading claims about the Metro rail network in the country. Not one of the Metro lines in…
We are in the Christmas Season: a time when we are all called to internalize and actualize the gifts of joy, love, peace, truth, justice and hope which Jesus our…
As Modi is set to inaugurate the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024, it will be quite unprecedented in parliamentary democracy. According to the Constitution of India which…
India has the largest number of people living in villages, and the percentage of rural population here is also one of the highest among the leading countries. According to conventional…
If God loves all equally, then why do priests live in separate houses? Inequality is an inalienable core of religion and religious practices, which devalues human beings and their everyday…
Kannaiyan and his brother Krishnan, two elderly farmers in their 70s , living in Athur of Salem district in Tamil Nadu, received a summons from the Enforcement Directorate in June…
Swamy Prasad Maurya, a veteran socialist leader and general secretary of the Samajwadi Party, turned 70 on 2nd January. About Swamy Prasad Maurya and his commitment to social justice and…
Indian diplomacy is ending 2023 with a momentous turnaround. What began as a course correction necessitated by the torrential flow of events in West Asia is assuming strategic overtones. Truly,…
The resonating voice of Ravish Kumar, an emblematic figure in Indian journalism, echoed on November 30, 2022, as he announced his departure from NDTV after 27 years. This pivotal moment…
Election commission should invoke its authority under Article 324 to ensure that the Centre and the States do not position senior officers whose tenures are unduly extended, in order to…
As gods and goddesses receive the lion's share in the Government of Odisha's budget for electoral gains, the Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court, Dr. S. Muralidhar, has reprimanded…
The fag-end of the just ended last year was filled with ominous portents for the democratic character and heritage of our country.The Parliament so far alive with vibrant and often…
Indraprastha College’s failure to protect its women from sexual harassment in its centenary year. If it cannot protect, how will it educate? Education is an instrument of fiqr (rationality), ziqar…
“If gods, goddesses, and their abodes require state and government support for their survival and revival, citizens must abandon such gods, goddesses, governments, and electoral politics surrounding them. Instead, they…
How the situation impacts compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement of the families affected by mining projects The vision for a developed India and Atmanirvar Bharat by 2047 demands more steel to…
Inflation has always been the intriguing topic for the consumers, the economists, the politicians and most importantly the corporates. Every one holds a different reason to be excited about this…
Bundelkhand region in Central India comprising 14 districts (7 in Uttar Pradesh and 7 in Madhya Pradesh) has been frequently in news due to water scarcity. While there is widespread…
Come 2024, and we may have to vote in probably the most important election of our lives. The general election to the Indian parliament, expected to be held in May…
On 21st of December members of Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti (HBSS), Ramlal Kariyam (Hariharpur), Jainandan Porte (Saroanch, Ghatbarra) and Thakur Ram along with others was arrested. It was done…
Watershed moment On December 8, 2023, HM Amit Shah announced in the Lok Sabha, that new Bharatiya Sanhita legislations were being introduced to replace British era enactments relating to criminal…
Allotment of iron blocks to private companies with questionable background and denying a captive iron ore block to a CPSE, RINL- Calls for an investigation by the CBI and other…
New capacity created by World Bank funded unit in Himachal Pradesh for obtaining 100,000 litres of wine from apples per year is bad news for nutrition, health and ecology One…
The 5T (Teamwork, Technology, Transparency, Time, and Transformation) initiatives introduced by the Government of Odisha aim to enhance governance efficiency and effectiveness. Chief Minister Mr. Naveen Patnaik emphasizes "the 3Ts…
Phase 2 of The Bhagat Singh Jan Adhikar Yatra (BSJAY), which began on December 10, is set to cover 8,500 km, going through 80 districts and 13 states, and will…
People in Odisha face a myriad of challenges, ranging from economic uncertainties, unemployment, illiteracy, homelessness, illness, underdevelopment, and regional tensions to environmental crises and public health emergencies in both urban…
ToShri Rajiv GaubaCabinet SecretaryGovt of India Dear Shri Gauba, I refer to the news report which revealed that the Aadhar data relating to 815 million citizens had been leaked, with…
Following the mimicry of the behavior of the Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar, carried out in public by an MP in the precincts of Parliament, which was video-taped by Rahul …
About the top 10 to 20 percent of Indians have been happier with a more luxurious consumption basket made possible with partially or totally imported goods sustainable only with international…
Immediately upload in Parliament’s website answers to all 290 Questions raised by MPs!! Don’t reduce India’s Parliament to an appendage of the executive! The PUCL condemns the undemocratic suspension…
What has happened in India's parliament in the last few days is a clear indicator of how this country will be run if BJP comes back to power in 2024.…
In a startling turn of events, the Lok Sabha recently witnessed the suspension of 142 Members of Parliament, setting a historical precedent for the Indian parliamentary system. The expulsion began…
Three new proposed laws on broadcasting, telecommunications, and personal data protection are vague and broad enough to give the government power to selectively censor news content, imperil encrypted communication, make…
ToShri Nagendra Nath Sinha Union Steel Secretary Dear Shri Sinha, Earlier, in my letter dated 29-8-2023 addressed to you , I expressed my concern at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) being…
On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each…
The PUCL condemns the UAPA charges which have been filed against the young persons who have been arrested on 13th December, 2023, for jumping over the visitor’s gallery in the…
How ironical is it that the excuse given for having a new Parliament building was that the capacity of the old one could not be extended to meet the needs…
Karl Marx’s oft-quoted observation - “History repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce” keeps echoing in the corridors of the Indian Parliament. …
Having been raised in Himachal Pradesh, a rural tehsil located in the Shimla district, I have witnessed the remarkable evolution of agriculture in a relatively short period of time. The…
The Patanjli has been in the news not just for advertising its products and misleading claims in the media but also for criticising modern scientific medicine. This went on to…
How many of you watch news on TV ? The audience was asked from the dais in an auditorium on December 16. Not a single hand went up. This shows…
Khadya Suraksha Jan Adhikar Manch, Pashchimi Singhbhum today released the report of its survey of the centralised kitchen system started for midday meals in government schools of four blocks (Sadar,…
Water conservation can be the key to many-sided rural development, and the recent experiences of Anaura village in Birdha block of Lalitpur district provide a very promising example of this.…
Everyone should feel deeply concerned over this report in the Times of India by Somit Sen today about the serious crisis in the BEST bus undertaking in Mumbai, its fleet…
It was nearly 20 years back that a young social activist Basudev made the rather difficult decision to move from a bigger voluntary organization in Chitrakut to a very remote…
People of Manjra Makara village in Niwari block and district (Madhya Pradesh) are very happy that they now have tap water in their homes. They say that their daily life…
The Ram Temple is all set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi on January 24, 2024. For obvious reasons, this event will be milked to its full extent by…
The PUCL condemns the decision of the Lok Sabha to expel TMC Member of parliament, Mahua Moitra for allegedly accepting cash for asking questions in parliament as being rife with…
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