A Shift in the Balance of Power In his book The Discovery of India, written while he was in prison during the Quit India movement, Jawaharlal Nehru commented: While we were doubting and debating, the. . .
July 9, 2022 will go down in Sri Lankan history as the day when the lethal combination of an acute economic crisis and a massive eruption of popular anger forced a tyrant to flee. Photos. . .
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has notified the new Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022 (FCR, 2022) under the Forest (Conservation) Act on 28 June replacing earlier Forest (Conservation) Rules notified in 2003. . .
The Sangh brigade is planning a repeat of the Babri Masjid demolition by raking up a dispute over the Gyanvapi mosque. This is a clear violation of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 which protects. . .
“The first division of labour is that between man and woman for the propagation of children”, wrote Marx and Engels in an unpublished manuscript. Indeed, the bearing of a child imposes a heavy burden on. . .
CPI(ML) Liberation condemns the bulldozing of the Karnataka Protection Of Right to Freedom of Religion Ordinance, 2022 by the BJP government in Karnataka. This law is brought in with a clear intent to criminalize and. . .
Delhi HC delivered a split verdict on a case challenging the marital rape exception in India’s rape law. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the division bench hearing the case, said that the right to withdraw. . .
The Justice VS Sirpurkar Commission has submitted its report to the Supreme Court on encounter murders on December 6, 2019 against four accused of raping and murdering a young doctor in Hyderabad. The commission confirmed. . .
The Supreme Court order to put Sedition law in abeyance is a victory to the long standing struggle by people's movements against state repression on democratic rights and the right to dissent. The said order. . .
The Supreme Court invoked its extraordinary powers to declare on Wednesday that Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict AG Perarivalan’s life term would be “deemed to have been served” and ordered his immediate release. He was. . .
