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Minutes after Supreme Court struck down electoral bonds, a familiar face was back on national television, explaining the import of the order. SC lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan is famous for being the last refuge of near-lost causes, whether it is about rations for migrant workers or the choosing ...

A look at the top headlines of the day:No Ganeshotsav on Bengaluru’s Idgah maidan as Supreme Court orders status quo: The decision came on a petition against a High Court order allowing Hindutva organisations to celebrate the festival on the ground where Muslims offer prayers.UPA takes Jharkhand legislators to ...

New Delhi: Over a hundred prominent Indians from diverse backgrounds, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, lyricist Javed Akhtar, lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan and writer-activist Tushar Gandhi, on Saturday unequivocally condemned the recent killings in France in the name of religion. They also slammed the outrageous statements by some Muslim religious and ...

heFreedom of speech has made Arnab Goswami screech to teach those who disagree with him that the nation comes first. Always and every time. We cannot disagree with that. Except that Samuel Johnson, who compiled the English dictionary in the 1780s, once said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of ...

Greetings. It’s a pity that in the India of 2020, in the Era of Minus 23.9, we should have to gather to discuss something as primitive as the Right to Free Speech – surely the most fundamental building block of a functioning democracy.On the other hand, perhaps we have ...

In a unique first since Parliament came into existence in 1950, the Narendra Modi government first scrapped Question Hour during the monsoon session which will commence on September 14 and end on October 1. After a hue and cry, the government later allowed unstarred questions to be asked, allowing ...

India and China on Thursday held another round of border talks aimed at breaking the impasse along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), with complete disengagement still remaining a far-off prospect and both sides appearing prepared for the long haul.India maintained a cautious approach to the announcement of Russian vaccine Sputnik V, ...

A proceeding that is supposed to decide whether two tweets by lawyer Prashant Bhushan constitute contempt of the Supreme Court is turning into a serious legal quagmire for the apex court, partly because of its decision to revive an older case and partly because of aggressive legal moves by ...