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A video shared by the Supreme Court on March 22, which allegedly shows burnt cash in a store room in the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma, a Delhi High Court Judge who has since been repatriated to Allahabad, has shocked the nation. The amount must run into crores from the looks of it. But it is established that there was a fire in his outhouse and his family and staff had called the police. Someone took video and pictures of the burnt cash being doused by the fire fighters and this has come into the public domain from none other than the head of the judiciary, the Chief Justice of India. The CJI has ordered an enquiry by three judges.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as the super salesman of jumlas. Beginning from Jan Dhan account of Rs. 15 lakh for everyone to generating two crore jobs for youth every year, all the hyped up propaganda of the BJP led government since 2014 have turned into a big flop. Even in the last few years, the BJP’s election machinery or the official agencies never mentioned these two promises of the Prime Minister. But his most talked about and ambitious programme was the Make in India announced soon after his take over at the centre, followed by US$ 23 billion Productivity Linked Incentive(PLI) scheme, the flagship of MII programme in 2021. Modi declared that India would be turned into a production hub of the world with the share of manufacturing going up to 25 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2025 as a result of implementation of Make in India programme.

With the US’ Damocles sword of reciprocal tariffs hanging over its head, the Modi government is surrendering instead of resisting. The US President Donald Trump explicitly stated that India would be on the list of countries subject to reciprocal tariffs from April 2, irrespective of its good relationship with the US. The Modi government, instead of meeting this challenge, is ready to reduce tariffs on nearly 55 per cent of US goods and in the process sacrifice Indian interests.

BJP led governments, both in the Centre and Indian States, have been continuing ‘bulldozer actions’ which they claim as doing justice against those people who they make accused in the police FIRs.BJP governments thus become accuser and judge both, which is clearly extrajudicial activity violating the principle of justice itself, and hence are miscarriage of justice. They are even violating the recent Supreme Court directives against demolition of properties of people accused of rioting, arson, and other crimes, without going through any judicial process, and simply by executive orders, which are unconstitutional and illegal.

‘Speculation’ is the most common pick-up from the English dictionary. If you don’t know what’s happening, ‘speculation’ comes into play. For journalists to fall back on ‘speculation’ to not to make a point comes natural. Right now, there is speculation that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin doesn't have an inkling on what's happening between the BJP and the DMK, which are “in talks”.

RSS pratinidhi which concluded in Bengaluru last Sunday made a tactical shift from Hindi imposition to learning of English as a “career language”. This was certainly an implicit endorsement of the political line of Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin that demanding linguistic equality is a right, not an offence. This RSS view differs with the line which the union home minister Amit Shah is taking.

KOLKATA: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, had to reconcile with the unwelcome proposition of practically remaining organisationally inactive in Manipur for over 21 months since the outbreak of ethnic violence in that small state on May 3, 2023. But inquiries from informed quarters in Imphal reveal that RSS succeeded in utilising the services of some of its associates and affiliates for reaching out to a fairly large number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in relief camps. The sources told IPA that so far relief materials worth Rs 10 crores have been distributed among IDPs.

The Allahabad High Court, established almost two centuries ago, has historically occupied a distinguished position in the Indian judiciary. It has been a crucible for landmark judgments, a beacon of justice, and a stage for many legal luminaries who have shaped the judicial ethos of the nation. But, today, it appears to have drifted from its moorings, and what was once a hallowed institution is now being perceived as the judiciary’s neglected backyard—a troubling image that even the Supreme Court seems to have tacitly acknowledged. The recent incidents that have cast the Allahabad High Court in an unflattering light are a sobering reflection of its current malaise.

PM Narendra Modi led BJP government in India, and BJP led governments in the states are now tabling “Developed India”, “Developed Delhi”, “Developed Madhya Pradesh” etc budgets as hypnotizing technique, to make people believe that the country has actually developed under their rule. Deception is being spread, the latest example being, with such headline as “India’s 100 per cent GDP growth in 10 years stuns the world.” It is a hype, to politically benefit the ruling establishment by concealing the stark realities that India is still housing the largest number of poor in the world, and GDP growth rate is heavily benefiting handful of the rich and impoverishing majority of the people resulting in stark increase in inequality level placing India the 7th worst country in the world with wealth inequality.

March 30 is going to be the momentous day in the lifecycle of the RSS. On this day the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would not only be meeting his ostensible bete noire Narendra Modi to sort out the issue of selection of the future president of the BJP, but on the same day he would also be mediating between Modi and his die hard enemy, senior RSS leader, Sanjay Joshi to resolve their decades old animosity.