Waqf Amendment Bill 2024: Modernising the Medieval
The 2024 Amendment Bill’s will modernise administration of Waqf properties located across Bharat. The Modi Government has made it clear that this bill is all about bringing transparency in this system. By Vinod Bhanu The Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 is not just another legislative change but a significant and comprehensive attempt to reform and modernise […]
Indian Democracy and Labhartees
Government of India has made a distinction between welfare measures and freebies. In the recently presented interim budget before the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, the finance minister shunned courting voters with gifts and concessions and focused on welfare schemes such as PM-KISAN and the extension of health coverage to ASHA and Anganwadi workers. BY […]
Caste Census: Bihar, Once A Beacon of Light has wilfully Gone Backward
Bihar Caste Census has the potential to unleash a socio-political war. BY Saroj Kumar Rath and Venkatraman Krishnamurthy Mahagathbandhan government in Bihar, which is composed primarily of JD(U)-RJD-INC and Left Parties, issued a notification on 06 June 2022 and announced that a census of the state population would be conducted. Under fire from the constitutional […]
The Kerala Story: Pushing the envelope in calling out soft conversion to Islam which graduates to terrorism by brainwashing
These are the lived experiences of these men and women. Why is truth being dismissed as propaganda? Why cry Islamophobia when indoctrination is being done in name of Islam? By Nirwa Mehta When politicians start pandering to vote bank, truth becomes ‘propaganda’. We are told terrorism has no religion. But when terrorists carry out terror […]
Agnipath’s Merit is Debatable
The recently announced Agnipath scheme merits a proper analysis, weighing both the positives and the negatives of this military programme. BY ABHIJIT SINGH The Tour of Duty (ToD) scheme for enlistment in the military has been drawing protests from across the country. Many young aspirants are agitated over what they see as a system of […]
One Year of Vaccine Drive: India Shines Despite Vaccine Hesitation and Dirty Politics
BY ANURAG Despite the speculations and lack of trust that the left-liberal section of Indian society, as well as international media, showed in India’s capabilities, the Covid-19 vaccination program has been far more successful compared to any developed nation across the globe. On January 16, 2021, India began its mass vaccination program to immunize its […]
CDS General Rawat was on a Mission to Modernize Army
BY RED STAFF In the unfortunate demise of General Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India has lost a great soldier who emerged as the country’s most senior general as its first Chief of Defense Staff and presiding over the most important transformation of the nation’s defense architecture. General Rawat began […]
CDS Chopper Crash: General Rawat, Wife Among 13 Killed
WEB DESK General (retd) Bipin Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General, died on Wednesday when an Indian Air Force helicopter ferrying him and 13 others crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force said. The crash took place as Rawat was on his way to the Defence Services Staff College in […]
Caste-Census: Impact on Society
BY INDIRA G. The Indian Constitution after independence was written with a vision and aspiration to have a casteless society. In support of the goal, many post-independence leaders and thinkers used to shun to have caste-identities attached to their names. That being the case, after seventy-five years of freedom caste identity has become more and […]
Indian Muslim Clerics’ Call for Action to Overcome Vaccine Hesitation During Ramadan
BY: NAGHMA SAHAR RASHEED KIDWAIPUBLISHED ON APRIL 27, 2021 The Islamic month of fasting — Ramzan or Ramadan, began in India on Wednesday, 14 April 2021, fuelling apprehension that that the holy month meant for prayers and spirituality, may lead to vaccine hesitancy. This calls for instant action from the Muslim religious clergy so that […]