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Recent interventions by the Supreme Court into actions taken by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have underscored mounting concerns about systemic issues within the country’s chief market regulator. SEBI’s actions in several high-profile cases—particularly its record of imposing significant penalties and its alleged tendency to either delay or condone infractions by key market players—are sparking renewed questions about the agency’s decision-making processes and effectiveness. With SEBI Chief Madhabi Puri Buch herself now under scrutiny, facing allegations of misconduct and questionable financial dealings, public and judicial attention to the organization’s governance has intensified.

A Bench of the Supreme Court of India has bulldozed the ‘bulldozer justice’ on November 13, 2024, but partially, since it does make officials accountable for the damage and the cost for restoration would be recovered from their salary, but the power drunk politicians would still remain untamed in absence of any order of making them also accountable on whose orders such ‘bulldozer justice’ is carried out. Nevertheless, the order and the guideline are welcome, which may rein in ‘bulldozer justice’ up to a great extent.

Elections come and go. Even these will pass. One nation one election is for the birds and the bees. What will not pass easily is the fracas over the Waqf Amendment Bill 2024. The next big political fight will be when the Joint Parliamentary Committee sends the bill back to Parliament. The Muslim community across India is bracing for the big showdown during the Winter Session and Muslim organizations have warned the Modi government of massive street protests.

Donald Trump’s thumping victory for USA Presidency for the second term unleashed a mixed bag of signal to India-USA relations. Unlike first term, rising global political tension due to Russia-Ukraine war and western sanctions on Russian have India’s situation a but different from the first term.

KOLKATA: Rare exceptions apart, diplomats as well as foreign policy spokesmen in Delhi as well as Dhaka have in recent times observed protocol-related niceties and established norms while referring to current developments in Bangladesh. Their mutual restraint has been praiseworthy: Post Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's fall from power and the spectacular decline of her Awami League party (for the moment), Indo/Bangla bilateral relations have turned a great deal frostier than before.

She was running with her all three children when they shot at her. The pain was unbearable as she fell. Arsonists saw her and set her on fire. Zosangkim, a 31-year old mother was turned into ashes. It was November 7, the day when the great October revolution had taken place. It was a promise that the suffering would end. But even after more than a century, change is yet to come.

Everybody in the saffron ecosystem supports Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's unity call 'Batenge toh katenge' for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections as well as for the Uttar Pradesh bypolls. The RSS picked it up, BJP spokespersons trotted it out on television news channels and BJP supporters and BJP workers adopted it, everybody except Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has never once spoken aloud 'Batenge toh katenge.'

RANCHI: Hogging the limelight in the Jharkhand Assembly elections this time round are the women voters the sheer number of whom has compelled the two main contending coalitions the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led ruling side and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Opposition – to be generous in offering cash assistance and other incentives. The all-out bid for the crucial women vote begins tomorrow — Wednesday, November 13 – when voting for the first phase covering 43 constituencies in the House of 81 members takes place.

At the end of election campaign for the first phase of Vidhan Sabha Election in Jharkhand scheduled to be held on November 13, 2024 for 43 of 81-member Vidhan Sabha, INDIA bloc led by JMM seems to have an edge over BJP led NDA. Threefold identity politics – Jharkhandi vs non-Jharkhandi, Adivasi vs Outsiders, and Hindu vs Muslim – has emerged as the most influential issues that are likely to impact election outcome.

With the Winter Session of Parliament due to begin its session on November 25, there is mounting panic in secular parties and in the Muslim community, which never votes for the BJP. Today, 78 years after India’s independence, Muslims are afraid they’re losing their special status and it galls them no end. It makes them feel unwanted, it angers them that the secular parties aren’t able to defeat the "communal" BJP and send Prime Minister Narendra Modi packing.