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Functioning of the judicial institution has always been under scanner, but after Narendra Modi ushered the country and its judicial system into New India, after coming to power in 2014, the credibility of the institution has to witness the most embarrassing period.

Nitish Kumar with the flex facade of the ramparts of the ‘Lal Qila’ behind him, with the tricolour for maximum effect, told the story of things to come and a rattled Bharatiya Janata Party descended on the Bihar Chief Minister, aspiring to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi the proverbial boot, like a tonne of red bricks, the kind which made the ramparts of the Red Fort the symbol of India’s sovereignty and power.

An IMF working paper has commended India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI), which is known by the term India Stack, as a great success and recommended it for other countries, but with a rider that these countries may not have India’s enabling factors such as a vibrant ecosystem that includes a huge pool of IT talent.

Laughing at the places life takes me. Why hello there, Instagram. Thus began the instagram takeover of Zeenat Aman, whose bio reads: “Actor mother, Maverick”. Accompanying the caption was an image of the veteran actor seated at her home on “a lovely sunny afternoon”, wearing; grey—and white—cord set and sporting a silver bob. The post began a talking point as it marked the screen sensation’s return to a public platform over half a century after she burst into popular consciousness playing a troubled young flower child in Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971). Holding a marijuana pipe, she was seen iconic Dum maarodum song. Comfortable in her own skin, the model-turned-actor was hailed as ‘game changer’, an unconventional heroine with western looks.

Communal clashes during passage of Ram Navami processions at Kazipara in Howrah followed by another flare up at Rishra in Hooghly has the Trinamool Congress leadership worried about its minority support base. These conflagrations could not come at a worse point as they erupted in the wake of the shock defeat in the Sagardighi by-poll of the nominee of the state's ruling dispensation.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The arson attack inside a coach of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express in Kozhikode, Kerala, which left three persons dead and eight injured, underlines the urgent need to tighten security systems on trains and at railway stations.

NEW DELHI: People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), along with the National Network of LBI (Lesbian, Bisexual, Intersex) Women and Trans Persons (The Network), organised a press conference to present findings from a public hearing, where testimonies and lived experiences of queer and transpersons facing conflict from their families were recorded.

The significance of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s ‘social justice federation’ cannot be overstated though only the politically illiterate will think of it as a social justice forum, when in reality, it’s a group of like-minded opposition parties seeking to cement opposition unity to dethrone the BJP from all positions of power everywhere.

Passing of Right to Health Bill by the Rajasthan Assembly is a long overdue requirement of the citizens and demand of the health care organizations. This Act gives the residents of Rajasthan right to free healthcare. The right to health thus becomes justiciable, that is the government is now answerable in eyes of law. The Act primarily puts the onus on the state to ensure healthcare to the people and through guarantee of nutrition, safe drinking water, sewerage facilities etc. The patients will have the facility to avail of OPD or indoor care free of charge in the public health facilities.

Work should speak for itself, and when it fails in convincing people, interested parties come forward to defend or to praise the people of institutions who are accused of inefficiency or deliberate omission and commission. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come forward in defence of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) showering praises for their ‘efficiency’ which was very harshly commented upon by the Supreme Court of India only one-and-half year ago. Even recently, a petition has been filed jointly by the 14 political parties in the Supreme Court of India alleging the central agencies have become merely tools of Prime Minister Narendra Modi used to subdue political opposition in the country.