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The Pegasus expose has brought a very significant political issue in the public domain for painstaking discourse that if all the democratic institutions had not been crushed and allowed to perform their democratic roles in the defined constitutional manner and the bureaucracy had not been inactivated, should Narendra Modi had won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Chief Justice of India has very validly pointed out the misuse of Section 124(A) of IPC which deals with the offence of sedition. Laws like the NSA, UAPA and sedition laws are a reflection of colonial era. He pointed it from legal perspective as these laws are utter violation of human rights. Any such law which curtails the right to freedom of speech and right to critically analyse the events and the government’s performance amounts to negation of basic human rights as enshrined in our constitution. There have been several allegations of these laws having been misused and people being framed falsely. These allegations are corroborated by reports that out 326 sedition cases filed during 2014 to 2019 only 6 have been convicted.

There is a raging debate going on about regulating the population growth in India. Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, three BJP-ruled states — Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Karnataka — brought a two-child policy norm with incentives and disincentives. Even though they have not openly spelt out that the measure was meant to send a signal to the Muslim community, the message is clear. Some BJP M.Ps are preparing to push for a national population control law through private members' Bills during the Monsoon session.

The Pegasus is a mythical winged horse which with a blow of its hoof knocked a spring out of Mount Helicon. The other day the Modi Government got kicked by Pegasus, Israel’s military-grade spyware, and set phones ringing all through India, from Agartala to Agatti, Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Called to defend the Modi Government, Union Home Minister Amit Shah could only write a blog in which he told MPs “Aap Chronology Samajiye”.

New Delhi: Ace goal keeper PR Sreejesh has predicted lot of surprise at the Tokyo Olympics Hockey competitions but asserted that Indian hockey team is mentally prepared for it.

Frustrated beyond relief by powerful politically-backed West Bengal-based road transport mafia, Bangladesh business authorities have switched over using Railway services to continue their increasing import-export trade with India. Presently efforts are under way to build immediately at least two railway yards at the Benapole land customs station on the Bangladesh side to enable the growing volume of traffic in the near future.

LUCKNOW: With her three hours, maun vrat, at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the day she arrived Lucknow, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra not only stumped the ruling party but also scored over other opposition parties.

All competitive exams in India, on the surface level, may seem to be doing justice to all the candidates, but in reality they are doing injustice to the poor, underprivileged, and unprivileged. They are being excluded systematically from getting better opportunity in education and jobs. Since these weaker sections of the society are hardest hit by the COVID-19, the vulnerability of their sons and daughters has become historically high because they have lost access to event those little facilities and resources that were available to them before the pandemic.

The disastrous defeat of the BJP in assembly elections in Bengal has not only demoralized the party workers at all levels but has also intensified factionalism in the organization. The party which dreamed of winning two hundred plus seats and ruling West Bengal is now taking pride in the fact that its strength has risen from three legislators to 77 and that it has now become the only opposition party in the State Assembly. This is for public consumption. But within the party disappointment, anger and jealousy are very much at play.

Nearly 300 phone numbers of Indians most-likely not friendly with the Modi Government were hacked and infected by a military-grade Israeli spyware during the run-up to the 2019 general elections which the BJP led by the Modi-Shah combine won with a thumping majority. In all 50,000 phone numbers worldwide were unearthed by a global investigation conducted by 17 media houses including one Indian news outlet.