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By Kumar Ketkar The Supreme Court was rather kind and sympathetic to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) when, in 2013, it described the agency as a “caged parrot”. Parrots are relatively

By Manini Chatterjee The Supreme Court, in its order on October 23, restricted the use of fireworks during all festivals across the country to a window between 8 pm and 10 pm.

By MANISH DUBEY A government with a decisive mandate is less vulnerable to the pulls and pressures a coalition faces and, hence, better placed to take tough, non-populist decisions in larger national

By Dr. Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Although it has been almost three years since then, but some reminders could pen-me-up to write about that amazing journey. In comparison to our planned trips so

By Avi Singh The Supreme Court, on Friday, stepped into the institutional crisis engineered by the “forcible transfer” of the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) earlier in the week.

By Sanjay Kumar Many believe that if what seemed like a popular government led by then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee could be defeated in 2004, why can’t the present BJP government

By Nadeem F. Paracha In August 1947 when Pakistan came into being, its founders almost immediately rushed to describe the new country as an entity which was different from India and had

By Aamir Suhail Wani Reality, if there’s any, has been a prior preoccupation of human mind since antiquity. The story of civilization in its intellectual perspective is actually a tale of unending

By Ujjwal K Chowdhury The Supreme Court of India has once again proved its political impartiality by agreeing to look at government allegations against the two most senior officers in the Central

By Tavleen Singh This has possibly been the most embarrassing week for Narendra Modi since he became Prime Minister. Not just because the highest intelligence officials in India were involved in a