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Yogi Adityanath is a treed cat. He cannot risk getting off the tree and somebody has gone to fetch an axe! Iron barricades set up around the village perimeter speak of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s helplessness in the face of a combined media and opposition parties’ onslaught on the Uttar Pradesh Government for the gang-rape of a 19-year-old who succumbed to a broken spine injury after 14 days of doctors at a Delhi hospital trying to save her, body & soul!

The other day a Madras High Court judge lamented that India, the holy land, has become the land of rapists, where a rape is happening every 15 minutes.

A stalemate has been reached in the Sino-Indian border in eastern Ladakh. What eventually happens, whether the Chinese vacate the Indian territories it has occupied on their own or there is an armed confrontation between the two Asian giants will be known at the end of the winter. But there is not an iota of doubt that the Chinese have been shocked and surprised by the unprecedented toughness of the Indian stand and the rapidity with which India has responded to the Chinese threat this time.

The decision of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to part company with its long-term ally need not be surprising except on the question of timing. Coalition theorists would describe the post-2014 NDA as a surplus majority coalition — the BJP has had the numbers in Lok Sabha on its own and all allies have been superfluous. It was sustained because the allies could get a share in power at the Centre and make the most of the alliance in their states. Most of the NDA allies have been unable to win majorities on their own in their states and that forced them to remain with the BJP. But by nature, smaller partners are redundant in surplus coalitions.

New Delhi: Women hockey team's experienced midfielder Monika says that podium finish at the Olympics is their ultimate aim.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals’ Bowling Coach Ryan Harris on Friday asserted that his team has put behind the defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad and exuded confidence that Shreyas Iyer led side will bounce back from the result on Saturday as they take on Kolkata Knight Riders in Sharjah in their fourth match of the IPL.

In her three years as a federal appellate court judge, Amy Coney Barrett, whom GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump has nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has shown herself to be bad news for workers’ rights, legal analysts report.

Federalism is one of the basic features of the Indian constitution. In the constituent assembly, Professor K T Shah wanted the term “federal”, together with the term “secular”, included in the preamble itself, but Dr Ambedkar rejected it on the grounds that the federal and secular character of the republic was understood and did not need specification. The constitution in its seventh schedule spelt out the jurisdictions of the centre and the states in two lists, and areas of common jurisdiction in a third list. Since then the centre has always tended to encroach on the domain of the states, but this tendency has now acquired a strength where the claim that the country is being pushed towards a de facto unitary State appears to be no exaggeration.

After the recent exit of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the alliance led by BJP is left with only a few major regional parties. Last year, it was the Maharashtra based Shiv Sena, ideologically a strong Hindu nationalist party, that left the NDA and decided to form the state government along with NCP and Congress, the two ideologically opposed parties.

The judgement of the special CBI court on Babri Masjid demolition case poses serious questions over the concept of justice in present day India. Acquitting all the 32 swayam sevaks including L K Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi, the court explained to the nation the real face of judiciary under various compulsions. The 2300-page verdict was an explicit exercise undertaken by the court to justify the illegal act that happened in Ayodhya on December 6th, 1992. The verdict though not unexpected signals a caution of alarm before secular India. The CBI special court behaved in a 'special ' manner to tell the people of India that the demolition was spontaneous.