Can Shanmuganathan Evade Criminal Proceedings For Alleged Offences Simply By Resigning?
Given previous cases, the Centre’s decision to remove (or not) governors after allegations of cognisable offences seems to depend on their political leanings.
Given previous cases, the Centre’s decision to remove (or not) governors after allegations of cognisable offences seems to depend on their political leanings.
In poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, politicians who were hoarding black money for campaign purposes found several loopholes to get around demonetisation.
Despite all the talk of a big push to the agricultural sector, the last Union Budget turned out to be a missed opportunity to provide genuine relief to farmers. The government must rectify this.
After demonetisation, the NDA government needs to get its affairs in order: starting from reviving private investment to delivering on social programmes.
The survey does not lift the mist of confusion on India’s macroeconomic situation after demonetisation, while the conservative fiscal stance being proposed will only lead to an aggravation of the problems confronting the economy.
The economy is “not in good shape,” said former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Shivpal’s announcement comes at crucial juncture as the SP-Congress alliance has taken off well and Akhilesh is the leading candidate in many opinion polls.
From potentially slashing middle-class subsidies as a method of funding a UBI, to eyeing the RBI’s reserves as a means of creating a ‘Bad Bank’, this year’s Economic Survey tackles three pressing issues.
Quebec has its share of extreme right groups and trash radio that spew out hate against immigrants, particularly Muslims.
Atreyee Majumder speaks to Darryl Li, a lawyer who has litigated cases concerning detention in Guantánamo and the CIA rendition program about Trump’s ban on Muslim migrants.
US acting attorney general Sally Yates was fired by President Donald Trump for defying his executive order on immigration.
“Only a credible crack down on the mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attack and terrorist organizations involved in cross border terrorism would be proof of Pakistan’s sincerity.”
Dalits have become a bargaining force in Punjab politics but they have failed as a credible political front. Jat Sikh dominance is unlikely to be impacted in the upcoming polls.
Nothing much has changed from the time I was attacked by goons 17 years ago, says director Hansal Mehta
May’s government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 – the legal process for leaving the bloc – after the Supreme Court ruled last week that she could not take that decision unilaterally.
The Gadchiroli couple who had alleged that two women from Chattisgarh had been detained and assaulted by Maharashtra’s C-60 commandos has now been arrested.
Members of Iraq’s Yazidi community, who were scheduled to leave for the US, are now stranded in Iraq awaiting more news from the US.
Thousands of people gathered in the city of Yangon in Myanmar to mourn the death of Muslim lawyer Ko Ni who was shot dead at Myanmar airport.
The survey, which sets the scene for finance minister Arun Jaitley’s fourth annual budget on Wednesday, forecast that Asia’s third-largest economy should steady after the November demonetisation.
Brazil’s Supreme Court approved plea bargain statements from 77 Odebrecht executives under investigation for paying bribes in Brazil’s largest graft scandal.
“The aim of acts of intimidation and hostility appears to be to clear the area of any dissenting voices [in Bastar] so that the police and security forces have a free hand.”
Atta Mohammad Noor, governor of Balkh in northern Afghanistan, is in talks with President Ashraf Ghani to join the central government.
Scientists aren’t sure if an intriguing feat performed at Harvard University – turning hydrogen into a metal – is legitimate because they suspect some inaccurate assumptions may have crept in.
Despite Trump’s entry ban on all refugees, according to a homeland security document, the US government will allow 872 refugees into the country this week.
The draft memo argued the policy would be counterproductive and damage the US’s image abroad.
The French-Canadian gunman identified as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, is a student at Université Laval and has been charged with six counts of murder.
The Outer Space Treaty, now 50 years old, has so far never been violated. But things could be about to change.
White House said that Sally Yates had “betrayed” the justice department by refusing to enforce the president’s executive order.
Relatives were unable to shed any light on who had been holding the men or why.
Scientists say a tiny marine creature from China that lived about 540 million years ago may be the earliest known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that led to humans.
Health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda had previously maintained that the sector had no funding issues, but recently revealed documents show he now believes his department needs more money to meet its objectives.
The voices of the republic include dreamers, dissenters, and rebels against borders and authorities. One poem of resistance, from a different Indian language, each day this week.
Thanks to universal testing and easy access to treatment, the Canadian province of British Columbia has seen a major decease in HIV-related mortality.
The Centre needs to make up for the losses it has caused to those who already live in precarious, marginalised conditions.
India is also making discrimination against Muslims a key ingredient of its refugee and immigration policy.
Improving export competitiveness depends on the government, through prudent fiscal policy, and the RBI, through appropriate monetary policy that maintains price stability.
The Wire spoke to Amit Masurkar, Swara Bhaskar and Neeraj Ghaywan about their reactions on the Bhansali assault, how it affected them and the perils of self-censorship.
The Wire spoke to one of the leading arthiyas in the Sangrur grain market about their role in the farmers’ debt crisis, institutional alternatives and the election promises being bandied about.
The apex court initiated this as an interim measure to make sure that the BCCI implements Justice Lodha panel recommendations.
After demonetisation, the informal MSME sector needs careful handholding if they are to make the transition to the formal economy.
A string of comments on Twitter complained that US border authorities were demanding access to the social media accounts of those crossing over.
The Reserve Bank also promised to review the weekly limit in the near future depending on the pace of remonetisation.