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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.

New Delhi: Union Sports minister Kiren Rijiju launched new logo of the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) at Major Dhyan Chand Stadium here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Indian U-17 Women's National Team head coach Thomas Dennerby says that he is preparing the squad for the upcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup, with a 'technical' style which makes use of the players' 'extreme speed'.

Friend Trump has given Modi a left-handed compliment by bracketing India with China and Russia for not being real with the Covid numbers.

While the charge of a conspiracy to bring down the Babri masjid on December 6, 1992, has been discounted by the CBI court which considered the issue, its observation that the demolition was the handiwork of anti-socials cannot be a matter of pride for the Sangh parivar.

The three labour laws passed in Parliament at the fag end of the truncated monsoon session constitute a grave assault on the working class of the country. The Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and the Social Security Code, along with the Code on Wages adopted last year, were ostensibly meant to simplify and modernise the host of laws related to labour. However, the entire exercise was aimed at fulfilling a vital element of the neoliberal reforms, which is to usher in a regime of hire and fire, labour flexibility and removal of all protections which hamper the drive for profit maximisation by capitalists.

The Boris Johnson government on Thursday took a firm step towards considering the schools in England not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching and also directing them not to use resources from organisations which have expressed a desire to end capitalism.

In early 2020, women’s groups across the country looked forward to attending the Sixty-Fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held in New York. The year 2020 was special for CSW as it marked 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) was adopted.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Left Democratic Front (LDF) deciding to strongly oppose the CBI inquiry launched into the State Government’s Life Mission project, the stage is set for a protracted politico-legal battle with the Centre.

Those who have read a little economics and also have the capacity to think logically will accept the role of market expansion in betterment of human life. From the classical growth theory of Adam Smith till endogenous growth theory of Paul Romer the constant factor that is said to boost growth is continued expansion of market. Such expansion may come from innovation – as it did with steam engine to use of artificial intelligence – as also by removing the obstacles to seamless expansion of market economy, be that undue market intervention by the social, political and legal system. The theory of endogenous growth which created research on regulations which hamper or encourage growth. Drawing on the rich reservoir of growth theories one may take a peek at the three farm bills of India which generated much heat, mostly due to refusal of the participants to draw on the foundation already laid by economists.