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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The Scourge of Forest Fires
Precious forest resources, including the carbon locked in biomass, are lost due to forest fires every year The forests in Uttarakhand are in the grip of a massive fire these days; so much so that apart from destroying the rich bio-diversity, it has killed four villagers and injured a forest guard...
India-Pakistan peace process is far from dead
Right now, peace looks elusive, but the peace process does not. By all aspects, it is clear that the process is thriving and may succeed in thrashing out some of the differences One does not need to be a rocket scientist to know Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has robbed whatever...
In low spirits
The migrant workers are making their way back to villages after local curbs were announced Roughly around this time last year, millions of migrant workers and their families — with their young ones and meagre belongings on their heads and shoulders — started a long, weary walk back to their native...
Tightening the screws
It might be a good idea for the CBI and the NIA to work in tandem for unravelling the Vaze maze The two independent agencies — the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) — will likely discover many common nodes and leads during their probe related...
Hypocrisy is very much alive and well
In all spheres of life around us, every day we see leaders indulging in acts of abject pretence and insincerity Having been slaves for the better part of a millennia, we tend to have a heightened instinct for survival that is best reflected in our hypocritical behaviour. It is no surprise...
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...
