Deliverance
Uttarakhand has decided to free 51 shrines from the Govt's control and hand these back to the priests In a politically sensitive development ahead of the Uttarakhand Assembly elections in February 2022, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat-led BJP Government has overturned his predecessor Trivendra Singh Rawat’s decision enabling the Government to...
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Shot shortage
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Of Sri Lanka and the Andamans
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China’s game on North Korea
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With law for healthcare workers, reforms continue unabated
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In low spirits
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Tightening the screws
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Hypocrisy is very much alive and well
10 April 2021 | Deepak Sinha
Shameful
The Assembly polls in West Bengal this year are witnessing a record number of violent incidents More than 100 years ago, political leader and social reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale had said: “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.” It must have rung true for the “Aamaar shonaar Bangla” of that time...
Goons in khaki
The civil defence volunteers are acting as if they are law unto themselves They don the khaki uniform, just like policemen, and can dangerously come in the way of your vehicle, surrounding it from all sides and forcing you to stop. They can even pull out the ignition key of your...
Farmers’ sympathy for leaders grows
Rakesh Tikait’s March campaign, which covered Nandigram to Rajasthan and Punjab to Tamil Nadu, turned heads everywhere As the Samyukta Kisan Morcha was blocking roads all across India on March 26 and celebrating Bharat Bandh, the situation in Ahmedabad got out of hand. The Bharatiya Kisan Union’s (BKU) Yudhvir Singh was...
No respite
The newer strains of Coronavirus are killing, of course, but more deaths are due to our own insouciance The word “tsunami” made it big in lingua franca in 2004, just as “COVID-19” did especially in the latter half of 2020. Unlike the tsunami, however, its killer surf is still far from...
Just deserts
Mukhtar Ansari’s transfer to Banda Jail will hopefully put an emphatic end to his extrajudicial activities Gone are the days when the jails of Uttar Pradesh used to be his fiefdom — a secure place from where the don-turned-politician allegedly used to operate, giving instructions to his henchmen and sharpshooters. Mukhtar...
The journey from olive green to khadi
Veterans from the Armed Forces, who choose to test political waters, must shun any suggestion of institutional endorsement The election to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly bears an interesting candidate, a veteran combatant and former Deputy Chief of Army Staff. Beyond his distinguished soldiering career, the said veteran has also tenured...
Good, bad & ugly
The Delhi Govt's decisions to fight COVID-19 range from the sensible to the ludicrous In the past few hours, the AAP-led Delhi Government has made a couple of major announcements — one quite important and people-friendly, and the other equally flippant and pointless. Its first decision pertains to doubling the hours...
