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The decision of the Modi government to introduce the Agnipath scheme and raise a strong band of Agniveer ought to be seen in the present political perspective in India when the ruling party BJP is openly talking of establishing a Hindu Rashtra. This move of the Modi government would not only drastically change the recruitment procedure for the Indian military, this would also bring about basic changes in the character of the Indian military. Under the scheme the youth between 17-and-a-half years of age to those aged twenty-one, will be recruited as soldiers for a period of four years. Quite significantly they will not be in the service of the military after four years. These youths would become jobless even before reaching the age of thirty.

The meeting of the seventeen opposition parties of the country on June 15 at the instance of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to decide on nominee for Presidential elections due on July 18, has been a big success considering the problems which the regional parties were having with the Congress in the recent months.

Knowingly or otherwise, Justice Abhijit Ganguly, Calcutta High Court, while expressing his fears over the poor performance of the CBI as an autonomous investigating agency, has strongly revived the dreaded question about the rule of law in West Bengal: has the state ceased to be governable?

When searching for a legal market, an international corporation wants to know only one thing: how easily legal disputes relating to their business can be resolved. In that vein, the enforcement of contracts is paramount, but approaching Indian courts often ties up companies in years of litigation with no end in sight.

Delivering a historic ruling, the Supreme Court of India has recommended that sex work by consenting adults should be legal. Releasing a small set of guidelines on sex workers, the top court said prostitution is a profession and sex workers are entitled to equality, dignity, and protection from the law of the land, a demand sex workers have been pressing for a long time.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have decided to ramp up their agitation seeking the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Agnipath and Madhushala! Two poems of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, actor Amitabh Bachchan’s father. Agnipath is about ‘hope’, while Madhushala spells ‘drunken despair’. But, with “Tu na thakega kabhi / Tu na rukega kabhi / Tu na mudega kabhi / Kar shapath, Kar shapath, Kar shapath / Agnipath agnipath agnipath”, is the Modi Government fiddling dangerously with the fighting spirit of the Indian Armed Forces?

Seeking ‘suo motu’ action against the bulldozer tactics and indiscriminate arrests of the protestors in Uttar Pradesh, several former judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts and senior advocates have written to the Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana, to intervene in the wake of incidents of violence and repression by the state authorities on citizens.

Sharp price rise and inflation in general and of food articles in particular is now casting devastating impact on poor household, though Modi government and so called economic experts trying to underplay the dire consequences by telling the people all sorts of things including it is global phenomena, it is due to external factors, and even that the RBI and the Centre are doing their best to rein them in due to which inflation in May 2022 moderated to 7.04 per cent from 7.79 per cent. However, nobody is telling what it means to poor households and what domestic factors including the mentality of profiteering and mismanagement of the Indian economy have brought us where we are today.

In the New India of RSS and Narendra Modi it is the lathi and not the rule of law that defines and underlines the character of India. Though the RSS and BJP leaders are not tired of claiming that India has not deviated from its traditional path and continues to be a democratic country, the fact remains it is the word of the king that matters most. In New India constitution and democracy have lost their relevance and utility.