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• Chief Justice Chandrachud: A Legacy With A Promise of Greatness Stands Perilled | Vijay Kumar

  16 November 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  The 50th Chief Justice of India, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, has demitted the office on controversial notes. Any objective and fair assessment of his tenure entails, perforce, to divide his term preceding his appointment as Chief Justice or after that. By the same token, the judgments rendered by him, and their scrutiny could be classified in accordance with the subject matters. As the Chief Justice of India has immense administrative power, apart from his judicial power, Justice (…)

• The Assembly by-elections in Karnataka | P. S. Jayaramu

  16 November 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  November 5, 2024
  Within one and a half years, Karnataka is into the election season thrice, the assembly elections in May 2023, the Lok Sabha elections in April-May 2024 and the upcoming by-elections slated for 13th November. The three by-elections are caused in Channapatna as a result of H D Kumaraswamy vacating his seat consequent to his winning the Mandya Lok Sabha election, in Shiggao following Basavaraj Bommai

• Good bye Justice Chandrachud | Radhakanta Barik

  16 November 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from 9 November 2022 to 10 November 2024. This Harvard-returned jurist

• Likely storm over JPC Waqf Bill Report | J P Gadkari

  16 November 2024, by J P Gadkari

  November 12, 2024
  There are indications of Modi-led NDA Govt at the Centre being shaken with one of its supporters, Andhara Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu and his TDP opposing the JPC report on Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 being submitted to the Parliament’s Winter session beginning on November 15.
  It is expected that the controversial JPC report prepared under the chairmanship of BJP M P Jagdambika Pal is likely to be submitted to Parliament creating a situation against the (…)

• Is it fair to commend Chandrachud

  16 November 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  In the late nineteenth and early 20th century when Urdu poetry was at its zenith there was a heated debate among the reigning Urdu poets from the Lucknow school as against the poets of say Western India or Hyderabad Deccan on the metre and rhyme as against the content of the poem composed by a poet if he or she did not belong to the Lucknow school.
  The Lucknow school for instance looked down upon even a great poet like Iqbal citing the same metre and rhyme shortcomings in their perception (…)

• Contesting the narrative of the US elections as a ringing endorsement of Trump | Pritam Singh

  16 November 2024, by Pritam Singh

  The narrative presented by the mainstream media almost all over the world of Donald Trump

• Power of Voters in India & USA Does Matter! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  16 November 2024, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  The strange but ironical similarity in votes cast in United States

• Disenchantment with Democracy: Reflections on the American election through a critical lens | Sanjana K.S.

  16 November 2024

  The American Elections of 2020 were a sigh of relief for the nation

• Polluted Air to relief camps — make political rulers answerable | Humra Quraishi

  16 November 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  14 November 2024
  The haze in and around the capital city of India, New Delhi, is getting from bad to worse. Throttling lives, as the respiratory system is affected; choking and with that killing the vulnerable. Correct me if I

• Unlocking Peace in Kashmir: The Power and Resilience of Youth Amidst Challenges | Adfer Shah

  16 November 2024

  Viewing Kashmiri society through the lens of peace and conflict studies, it can be argued that conflict management though has been an ongoing process for an extended period now; the region is currently in a state of stable transition, characterized by neither active/intense conflict nor a complete stability. This