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OPPOSITION'S IMPEACHMENT NOTICE AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT IS UNPRECEDENTED

PARLIAMENT IS HEADING TOWARDS SERIOUS LEGAL AND POLITICAL TANGLES
Dr. Gyan Pathak - 2024-12-11 11:46
In an unprecedented move in the parliamentary history of India, the opposition INDIA bloc submitted a notice on December 10, 2024, at the Rajya Sabha Secretary General P.C. Modi’s office seeking removal of the Chairperson of the Upper House the Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar alleging him of conducting proceedings of the House in an “extremely biased” manner. Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju on December 11, during his address in the House, said, “We will not allow this.”Amidst uproar in the House during Centre-Opposition faceoff, Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day.

BOTH CJI AND NARENDRA MODI'S STAND ON PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT HEARING ON DEC 12 WILL BE WATCHED

BJP AND RSS WORKERS WILL BE MONITORING EVERY MOVE BY THE CENTRE IN THE SUPREME COURT
Sushil Kutty - 2024-12-11 11:43
Chief Justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna has only a short six-month tenure to leave a stamp on India’s psyche. His predecessor Justice DY Chandrachud got two years and he left a stamp, which now refuses to leave him in peace. CJI Chandrachud allegedly played possum with the Places of Worship Act, 1991 and now there’s a question mark on the Act, for which CJI Sanjay Khanna has to find a solution. The answer won't be easy forthcoming.

WHAT NEXT IN SYRIA’S GEOPOLITICAL GAME OF CHICKEN?

A BERLIN WALL MOMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST REGION
Matein Khalid - 2024-12-11 11:40
The late summer and autumn of 2024 may well go down in history as the Berlin Wall moment for the Middle East as the collapse of the Assad dynastic dictatorship will have a seismic geopolitical fall out across the region. Iran has lost its land bridge/weapon supply conduit to its proxy militia Hezbollah, itself decapitated and militarily degraded by the IDF in Lebanon. Baathist Syria was Iran's oldest ally in the Arab world, a relationship forged by Hafez al-Assad with Ayatollah Khomeini in a bid to end his diplomatic isolation after Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Accords with Israel and his ideological archrival Saddam Hussein launched a bloody war of attrition in a failed attempt to crush the Iranian revolution in 1980.

MAKING JUDICIARY ABOVE SUSPICION IS THE NEW TASK FOR CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA

JUDGES OF STATE COURTS PUBLICLY ALIGNING WITH HINDUTVA FORCES IS DANGEROUS
Dr. Gyan Pathak - 2024-12-10 10:40
The current week is crucial for the Chief Justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna. He has a new task in hand –making judiciary above suspicion. The task has come on his way through two sets of petitions – the first was relating to the Places of Worship Act, and the second is relating to a sitting judge of Allahabad High Court making Hindutva speeches. Earlier, several judges came under suspicion for aligning with Hindutva forces, during their tenure as judge after retiring or resigning, though by and large, judiciary as a whole still enjoys the credibility of being neutral.

THEOCRATIC PUNISHMENTS PLAGUE INDIA, THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOCRACIES

PUNJAB POLITICS HAS A BIZARRE PANTHIC TONE AFFECTING FORTUNES OF SIKH LEADERS
Sushil Kutty - 2024-12-10 10:37
He almost took a bullet, but survived the assassination attempt. For Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal to undergo religious punishment, it wasn't God punishing him, his mistakes and decisions, during the time he was Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister, notwithstanding. And it shouldn't bother any non-Sikh rubbernecker about what's happening!

SUPREME COURT HEARING ON PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT 1991 ON DECEMBER 12 IS CRUCIAL FOR THE COUNTRY

CJI SANJIV KHANNA HAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO CLOSE PANDORA’S BOX OPENED BY CHANDRACHUD
Arun Srivastava - 2024-12-10 10:34
At the first glace it does not appear to be ethically legitimate, complying to the judicial practices, that a three-judge bench would have a relook at the verdict of a five-judge bench which while pronouncing the Ayodhya verdict, had approved the law and held that Places of Worship Act is a legislative instrument designed to protect secular features of Indian polity.

JEREMY SEABROOK WAS A CHRONICLER OF THE STRUGGLES OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

A LEADING BRITISH JOURNALIST, HE SPOKE TRUTH TO THE POWER TILL HIS LAST
Bharat Dogra and Madhu Dogra - 2024-12-10 10:32
Jeremy Seabrook, who dedicated his life to writings which speak for the underprivileged and oppressed people everywhere, is no more. He breathed his last in a care home in London on November 30.. He was 86. His absence will be deeply felt by friends, admirers and countless readers in many parts of the world.

ROMANIA'S ANNULLED ELECTION SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR EUROPE

SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYING A CRUCIAL ROLE IN FANNING AUTHORITARIANISM
Ben Chacko - 2024-12-10 10:31
LONDON: The annulment of the first round of Romania’s election marks a new phase in European authoritarianism. Given the growing alienation of populations across the West from “mainstream” politics — Britain is no exception to this — the precedent Romania sets is dangerous. This is the first case in which social media influence has been officially used to annul an election.

CAN GERMANY’S LEFT PARTY DIE LINKE REVIVE ITSELF BEFORE 2025 POLLS?

RESTORING LOST WORKING CLASS BASE IN LAST DECADE IS THE MAIN TASK
David Broder Julia Damphouse - 2024-12-10 10:30
BERLIN: Germany’s Die Linke was once the shining light of the European left. Created in 2007 as a merger between the post-communist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and a pro-labour breakaway from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), in its first decade Die Linke became a major force in national politics. In the East, it represented left-behind young people and pensioners and drew attention to the inequalities bequeathed by reunification. In the cities, it was the obvious political home for left-wing students, radical trade unionists, and activists of all kinds. At its height, it routinely scored around 10 percent nationally and nearly 30 percent in many former eastern states, even entering government there.

RUSSIA AND IRAN BIG LOSERS IN OUSTER OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD

TURKEY AND ISRAEL GAINERS AT THE MOMENT, BUT REGIONAL TENSIONS TO ESCALATE
Nitya Chakraborty - 2024-12-09 11:54
The already war ravaged West Asian region has entered into a new phase of geo political turmoil with the ouster of the Syrian President Bashar-al Assad Government and the President fleeing from Damascus on Sunday to Moscow and granted asylum there by the Russian Government. The defeat of the Syrian Bath Party leader who ruled for twenty five years since the year 2,000 with iron hand backed by Russian assistance is a big personal defeat for President Putin and a major setback to his diplomacy in West Asia.