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Why bail — even for UAPA and corruption charges — must not be deniedIn her column for The Indian Express, advocate Anita Abraham argues that many special laws — such as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) and ...

Srinagar: Administration of Union Territory of Ladakh on Friday ordered for enforcement of Section 144 in Leh district in view of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk proposed ‘Pashmina March’ on April 07. The District Magistrate Leh, Santosh Sukhdeva, citing reported reliable inputs of apprehension of breach of peace and public ...

Srinagar, Mar 27: National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that the promise of revoking the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from Jammu and Kashmir has been made in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as he feared that the people ...

Three facts stand out as clear after Russia’s arrest of the alleged perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Russia, and all three shine a light on dangers inherent in the new multipolar world we now inhabit.The first is that, before the attack, Vladimir Putin dismissed a US warning ...

Britain is an ethnic assimilation superpower.You could call it a diversity royal flush. With the ascension of Zambian-born Vaughan Gething as Welsh Labour leader and first minister-elect, all senior elected offices in the British Isles are held by ethnic minorities: the prime minister, Rishi Sunak is, by ethnic origin, ...

At Lahore’s Ichra Bazaar, a girl wearing a printed dress with Arabic calligraphy was surrounded by a mob that alleged she had committed blasphemy by wearing Quranic verses on her dress. Some shopkeepers and other onlookers defended her saying the word printed was “halwa”. A video doing the rounds ...

If anyone had a scintilla of doubt about what lay behind the multiple convictions of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, their timing was designed to dispel it. He was already behind bars and banned from running in Thursday’s election. Then, last Tuesday, he was sentenced to 10 years ...

On January 14, Euronews – the multi-lingual European TV and online news network – published a wide-ranging survey of where many of the world’s sovereign states stood regarding the accusation of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel. South Africa instituted the proceedings in the International Court of Justice ...

Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan Published by Aleph Book Company Pages: 560 Price: Rs 999 Two days after the Narendra Modi government scrapped Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on August 5, 2019, the then Indian envoy Ajay Bisaria ...

Bangladesh Isn’t Pakistan: Elections MatterIn this piece for The Indian Express, Sanjay Bhattacharyya, zeroes in on Bangladesh's tumultuous electoral journey and how the elections in the country on Sunday, 7 January, the first in a series of polls in 2024 will be significant.Mapping the trajectory of Sheikh Hasina's Awami ...