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BHOPAL: Though the Congress chose to sponsor Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal describing the seat as tough but now it appears that it is the BJP which is finding Bhopal tough. The fact that the BJP has yet to decide its candidate indicates that it regards Bhopal as a difficult constituency. BJP leaders are suggesting several names for Bhopal, for example, senior leader Raghunandan Sharma said that Sadhvi Pragya Thakur should be fielded. Arguing that if the party can give a ticket to actress Jaya Prada five hours after she joined BJP “what’s wrong in fielding Sadhvi Pragya who is a die-hard nationalist.

A-Sat is strategic weapon. Missile to blast to smithereens enemy satellites. Spies in outer-space. Sending inputs, pics and what not, to enemy planning God knows what. A-Sat is election weapon. The day after, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept hammering ‘Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai’ at a Modi rally. Space is Modi's last frontier. Modi himself spoke of opposition angry with ‘Antriksh Ke Chowkidar.’

China has hardened its policy on dealing with the status of the spiritual head of the Tibetans Dalai Lama who is in exile in India since 1959. In a document released on Wednesday ahead of the 60th anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama’s exit from Tibet after the failed uprising against the Beijing regime, the state council information office of the Chinese government circulated a white paper on Tibet ruling out any engagement with the present Dalai Lama who is 83 years old and is having serious ailment.

On 18th March, 2019, the High Court at Delhi gave a path-breaking judgment on the arbitrary eviction of slum dwellers, and upheld their right to housing. In this case, the division bench of Delhi High Court, i.e., Justice S. Murlidhar and Justice Vibhu Bhakru, was hearing a petition filed by Ajay Maken, Congress leader, who had challenged the forced eviction of around 5000 dwellers of a jhuggi jhopri basti at Shakurbasti on 12th December, 2015. Around 1200 jhuggis were demolished on the orders of the Indian Railways by Delhi Police, leaving thousands of person homeless in severe winter, and also resulted in the death of a six month child.

The Narendra Modi biopic is in the news. Movies generally make it to the news. Quite a few of them make headlines. The good ones are feted. The bad ones are thrashed. But it’s the previews that are killing the Narendra Modi biopic even before its release. Actually views. Of political parties. Of liberals. Their glimpse of the biopic so far limited to a trailer – picture abhi baaki hai! Opposition parties already view it as shameless publicity for Narendra Modi and the BJP in an election month. Propaganda.

Rahul Gandhi’s top-up ‘Nyay’ has put the fear of Judge Dread in the BJP. It’s payback time. For all the pointless ‘jhumlas’ and the empty promises. For the “Rs 15 lakh in every man/woman’s bank a/c” lure on the back of ‘Abki Baar Modi Sarkar.’ For fooling the great unwashed with dreams of ‘Acche Din Ayenge.’ Where are the ‘Acche Din’? This is a top-up scheme which beats every spectrum-provider to the ground. Kya Idea Hai, Sirjee!

If it wasn’t for the dangerous consequences for working people and their families, the present British government crisis would be a source of unending amusement. To see a Tory government unable to command a majority in Parliament, unable to find agreement over the central pillar of policy, divided into almost irreconcilable camps and now compelled to rely on the votes of a gaggle of colonials whose bigotry is only surpassed by their venality should have us in stitches.

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

Already embarked upon overthrowing Venezuela’s socialist government, the Trump administration is now renewing its efforts to squash Cuba as well, and Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act is joining an arsenal of weapons employed by the U.S. in what Cubans regard as genocidal aggression. This is the latest addition to the U.S.’ long record of implacable hostility toward Cuba, which features terror attacks, military invasion, germ warfare, internal subversion, and almost 60 years of economic blockade. Devoid of natural resources ready for U.S. plunder, Cuba offends by having defended socialism and national independence.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s denial to enroll the left parties as the members of the Mahagathbandhan and his refusal to accommodate their desire for a few seats has not come as a surprise. Though he used to give lip service to the down trodden, dalits and agricultural labourers, he was averse to helping the communists even while he ruled Bihar as its chief minister.