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No freedom is absolute in a democracy; it comes with riders. It is incumbent on people on both sides of the fence to be responsible to fellow citizens while exercising and regulating those freedoms. The greater responsibility rests with regulators who are paid to do their jobs to ensure that they put in place a fair mechanism that serves all.
A parliamentary...
On a busy weekend when he hosted Rahul Gandhi to a long lunch to be followed by coffee and desserts on Saturday and then accompanied Narendra Modi to every event that had been built into the Prime Minister’s itinerary in Chennai on Sunday, Tamil Nadu chief minister C. Joseph Vijay brought to fractious contemporary politics a breath of breezy fresh air.
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On March 5, 2021, the Press Information Bureau of the Indian government put out a statement headlined: “Rebuttal to Freedom House report on India’s declining status as a free country.”
It was in response to the finding by the US think tank, founded in 1941, that India was not really democratic and was only “partly free”. This was one of several similar findings by re...
The Delhi Police, which comes under the Union home ministry and, therefore, under Union Home minister Amit Shah, had prepared better for October 10, having learnt from its experience on July 20. The clampdown came beforehand. Metro stations across the national capital were closed, Internet in a 4-km radius was cut off. And protesters were prevented from reaching the protest ...
Spotting a leading contender for an Ig Nobel prize for hypocrisy will not be a hard task. The US President Donald Trump eminently qualifies for it after initiating a deal to lift sanctions and let Russia supply diesel. The ink is hardly dry on Lindsey O. Graham’s Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 that Mr Trump signed off on which, if applied, could see the US levy a ta...