Category: Politics

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone and inaugurated various development works in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, today. Many dignitaries including Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Bhupendra Patel also participated in the programme. In his address, Shri Amit Shah said that development works worth Rs 1052, crore have been dedicated and inaugurated in Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency today. These works have been done together by the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat. He expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the Prime Minister Shri Narendra…

Opposition criticizes bill excluding CJI from panel for appointment of election commissioners.  Congress shares Advani’s letter saying he had also proposed a panel at that time with the Chief Justice of India and leaders of opposition in both houses, besides the prime minister.  “The CEC Bill brought by the Modi government is not only against what Advani proposed but also overturns a 5-judge Constitutional bench judgment from 2nd March 2023.  Mr. Modi wants to ensure control over the Election Commission,” the Congress leader charged.  The Congress and other Opposition parties…

Mukesh Kumar, resident editor of Sudarshan News, was arrested from Gurugram’s Sector 17 for allegedly sharing inflammatory posts on social media about the communal violence in Nuh.  The channel had initially claimed that Kumar was “kidnapped” by some “goons”, However, Gurugram Police issued a clarification stating that he was arrested by the Cyber Crime division.  Kumar tweeted that the Gurugram Police acted against ‘Hindu activists’ due to pressure from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel.  Sudarshan News’ editor-in-chief warned the Gurugram Police that he would make a “big announcement” on…

A Varanasi court passed an order cautioning the media and parties involved against the publication and dissemination of inaccurate and unofficial information on the ASI survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque premises.  The Court directed both the ASI and the parties to the suit not to disclose any information regarding the survey to media persons.  The ASI is currently conducting a scientific examination of the Gyanvapi complex in Varanasi.  The survey is being conducted amid disputed claims over whether an object found in the Gyanvapi Mosque premises during a survey is…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha to replace the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, which are British-era laws.  For the first time, community service will be one of the punishments for petty offences.  A new offence on acts of secession, armed rebellion, subversive activities, separatist activities or endangering the sovereignty or unity and integrity of India has been added to the revised laws.  The aim will not be to punish; it will be to provide justice.…

The Department of Land Resources has taken up various initiatives to ease the living of citizens in the recent years. Under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme, the Department is making efforts for saturation of computerization of land records and digitalization of cadastral maps for the benefit of Citizens. In terms of computerization of Record of Rights and computerization of Registration Offices, for instance, the achievement at the National level has been 94% as on 8th August 2023. Similarly, the Digitization of maps in the country is 76%. Besides,…

The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Services and Term of Office) Bill, 2023, tabled in Rajya Sabha today.  The bill excludes the Chief Justice of India from the process to appoint the country’s top election officers.  The Bill appears to dilute the Supreme Court’s March 2023 judgment.   The fresh Bill sets up another confrontation between the Supreme Court and the Centre.  From judges’ appointments to controversial laws such as the Delhi Services Act, the Centre, and the Supreme Court have been locked in a…

Union Minister Smriti Irani today alleged that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi blew a flying kiss while leaving parliament after his speech on the No-Confidence Motion. “Only a misogynist man can blow a flying kiss to parliament that seats women MPs,” Smriti Irani said, referring to Rahul Gandhi – who was reinstated in parliament yesterday. Mr. Gandhi’s action “lacked dignity”, she charged. BJP women MPs have complained to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over Mr. Gandhi’s alleged gesture, accusing him of insulting women. Ms. Irani later told reporters that parliament has…

Kerala is the first state in the country to pass such a resolution in its assembly against the proposed law.  Earlier, the Kerala assembly was also the first legislative body in India to pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act.  Article 44 of the Constitution states that the State shall endeavour to secure a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India.  It further mentioned that Dr BR Ambedkar had advocated for UCC but never pressed for one.  UCC is a common set of laws pertaining to marriage, inheritance,…

6,500 FIRs Filed Over Manipur Violence Cases.  A huge number of separate FIRs have been filed by different individuals living under one roof for the same case when one FIR should have been filed under multiple sections.  The biggest chunk of police cases has been filed under the category “arson, looting, and destruction of house property.”  Manipur Police data shows the huge scale of destruction of property when the ethnic violence was at its worst.  Manipur has been slowly returning to normalcy, though reports of sporadic violence have been coming…