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600 Indian fishermen will find their way back home this month
“While both India and Pakistan periodically release large numbers of prisoners as gestures of goodwill there appears to be no streamlined process that ensures the rights of foreign prisoners are systematically upheld rather than on an ad…
Cloud of Silence Hangs Over One-Third of VVPAT Machines in Use Since 2018, Deemed…
An ex-chief election commissioner says some machines being defective is routine, but 6.5 lakh is too high a number and is a “serious” matter. Experts have called for more transparency. The Election Commission is yet to respond to our…
Ramzan and the Taste of Togetherness
When Hindus flock to Mohammed Ali Road during the holy month of Ramzan, “ek apnapan sa lagta hai,” say restaurateurs
Tracking the ED Case by Case, Puzzling Questions Emerge in Its Handling of Opposition Leaders
The Supreme Court may have refused to hear a collective petition by multiple political parties for directions on the work of central agencies, but in many matters, The Wire found incongruities and serious questions that need answering.
How the Enforcement Directorate Has Become an Excessive Directorate
The ED has cast its dragnet wide. It is using the interpretation of a circular issued by the agency itself in 2020 for this purpose. The circular was intended to define its role. But it has a clause giving its director enormous…
In New Delhi, George Soros is old, dangerous and on a watchlist — at UN, he isn’t a problem
India is the fourth highest donor to UN Democracy Fund, which funds at least 68 projects worldwide linked to George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. In Sydney in February, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, when asked about George…
Have India, Pakistan, B’desh, & Sri Lanka Made Politics of Hate Into A Religion?
South Asia emerges as a battlefield of religious ideologies that are exploited with impunity for political gains
Nirbhaya Fund: Gang-raped Bangladeshi woman awarded maximum compensation
She is a victim of an international human trafficking network (she was trafficked when she was a minor), sexual exploitation, and gang rape.
‘Modi Regime Will Pay Dearly For Its Brazen Act To Silence Rahul’
Nivedita Jha, a Patna-based writer and social activist, says a similar attempt to debar Indira Gandhi from Parliament had boomeranged on the then Janata Dal government. Her views: The Surat court verdict against Rahul Gandhi and the latest…
Of Narendra Modi, Gujarat and Rahul Gandhi: The Vulgarness of Speech
Today, Modi and his efficient digital empire have ensured that many of those vulgar videos where he stooped way below the belt trashing and insulting his political rivals are not to be found. For instance, in Gujarat, he referred to Sonia…