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Few Gains from the Elections
Elections are ever happening process in India, where almost three states go to election every year, thus testing the very pillars of the democracy. Two states, namely Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh went to the elections and…
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Cyber Attacks! Is India willing to learn?
India’s premier healthcare institute the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, finally was able to restore its servers and networks and had to sanitise the systems before the services could be restored. Services…
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First, a neutral body for selection. Second, is transparency!
Supreme Court of India has asked the Centre to produce before it the file related to the appointment of Election Commissioner Arun Goel, who was appointed on November 19. This conveys a lot about the…
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Will Rahul Gandhi gain from Bharat Jodo Yatra?
Ever since, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi started his “Bharat Jodo Yatra”, he went missing from the media supporting the ruling party. They have not been in a condition to cover the event, as it would…
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Hate speech until it suits vote politics
An elected representative from nation’s capital and from the ruling party Parvesh Verma at a rally said, “We will not buy anything from their shops. We will not give them any work, we will not…
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Why can’t the relations between Governor and Chief Minister be more sober?
India has seen many unpleasant altercations between state governments and governors. However, it has not become a regular in states where the party in power is opposed to the ruling dispensation at the Centre. For…
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Politics with renaming
Last week when Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi renamed the historic ‘Rajpath’ (Kingsway) in Delhi as ‘Kartavya Path’, he suggested that another symbol of slavery was consigned to the dustbin of history ! He…
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Fearing its own men! Deactivation of the press gallery!
An antipathetic relationship between governments and journalists is healthy for democracy, and generally it’s the media that builds the foundation for an adversarial relationship by keeping the government under a check. Ever since Narendra Modi…
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Contract System in Patriotism
Narendra Modi government in India has been facing dissension for not providing employment as promised to two crores youth. It came out with an innovative recruitment program in defense forces named “agniveers”; and was expected…
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Where hate speech is an achievement!
“Everything you do, everything you say, every choice you make, sooner or later comes back around,” the writer of the famous quote is not known but the exact essence of the quote can be traced…
