Category: Opinion
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Abuse of power violates human rights of people
India has a long history of gross abuse of power and deprivation of human rights of its people in the garb of laws and legality. The system of criminal jurisprudence in the country, drawn from its colonial past, is designed to instill fear of authority and subservience to the rulers among the people, now the…
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Undermining public institutions threatens democracy
Dictionaries have defined democracy as a government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by their elected agents (representatives) under a free electoral system, with the practice or spirit of social equality, with a social condition of classlessness and equality and the…
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Ever rising hate speeches in India
Recent hate speeches by a BJP MP and an MLA in Delhi to a mob attack in a mosque in Gurugram by RSS Pariwar goons indicate that a hate wave has gripped the country. With no punitive action or punishment for spewing hate and flouting the rule of law and political silence at the very…
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Growing debt of Indian Railways
Indian Railways (IR) is downhill the sickness path despite part privatization of earning and profitable blue chip assets like the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and remunerative high yielding operational tracks with further depressing signs of growing debt, designed to make it bankrupt and unviable with privatization (corporatization)…
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Accountability of government in Constitution
In India’s system of democratic constitutional governance, all the three organs of the state, the executive (government), legislature and the judiciary are accountable and answerable to ”WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA”. To ensure accountability, the Constitution has envisaged checks. The executive is answerable to the legislature and legislature to the people.The higher judiciary, Supreme Court…
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‘कर्तव्य पथ’ के रास्ते सरकार ने ख़ुद को देशवासियों के प्रति कर्तव्य से आज़ाद कर लिया है
‘ग़ुलामी की एक और निशानी को हमेशा के लिए मिटा दिया गया है.’ दिल्ली के केंद्रीय भाग के बीच से, संसद और राष्ट्रपति भवन के के क़रीब से गुजरने वाली सड़क का नाम राजपथ से बदल कर कर्तव्य पथ करने के अवसर पर प्रधानमंत्री ने यह दावा किया. क्या राजपथ नाम ग़ुलामी के वक्त का…
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Union government orders its employees to hoist flags atop their houses
Union government has ordered all its employees to hoist the national flag stop their houses to mark Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the 75th year of India’s Independence celebrations from August 9-13 to show their love for the country preceding the Independence Day on August 15, 2022 with the customary unfurling of the national flag Tiranga…
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Non-feasibility of uniform civil code!
Successive Union Governments since Independence have engaged with the idea to enact a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to ensure uniform civil code of conduct for all people irrespective of their castes, communities, religions, rites, rituals, customary practices, cultures and over all their diversity pursuant to Article 44 of the Directive Principle of State Policy in…
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Perceptible improvement in LWE situation!
Left Wing Extremism (LWEs), earlier known as Naxalism, is armed rebellion by tribals against the rule of law based system of constitutional democratic governance in the countryconsidered as centuries of cumulative exploitations by the rulers in the form of gradual deprivation of the tribe’s inherent right to Jal (Water), Zameen (Land) and Jungle (Forests) for…
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Infrastructure for combating cyber crimes
States/Union Territories (UTs)have set up 169 cyber police stations across the country to combat ever rising cyber crimes in the country as per a latest report, Data on Police Organisatons for 2020 by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) provides overarching logistic support to…
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New IT rules to tighten free information on social media
Union Government in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has floated a new draft IT rules on its websites to elicit public and users’ opinion/consultation before it is finalized for notification shortly. The new draft rules following the first Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics) Rules were notified in February 2021 as…
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Eight years of NDA Union Government’s misgovernance
Eight years of NDA Union Government’s misgovernance since 2014 has plunged the nation into the vortex of communalism, hatred, religious polarization, divisive/majoritarian politics, ever-rising unemployment, growing inflation, farmer crisis and economic downturn as never before, making India a dystopia, a society characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression and disease. Besides, the Prime Minister made India…
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Policing VPNs
Recent directive of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) requiring Virtual Private Network (VPN) service providers to store user data for five years, is yet another step to make India a full fledged surveillance state following all other internet based free flow of information having already been policed by the current fascist union government.…
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Failure of states to adopt model prison manual
Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has raised concern over failure of the States/Union Territories (UTs) to adopt Model Prison Manual 2016 for improving jail administration and security of jails. In this connection, a circular of May 2, 2022 to States/UTs points out that given the importance of prisons in criminal justice…
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A healer extraordinaire
India’s civilisational holy treatise, the Vedas mention Ayurveda as a system of medical knowledge having been transmitted from God to sages and from sages to human physicians. Originated in ancient India, it is a system of holistic and natural alternative medical care that ensures health of the healthy and cure for all types of illnesses…