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Indian judiciary faces a significant backlog of civil cases, with around 11.1 million cases pending, of which 22 percent are older than five years. These prolonged delays erode public trust in the legal system and leave many in a prolonged state of uncertainty while awaiting justice.

The desperation shown by BJP members of the parliamentary accounts committee to shield SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch from criticism for her failure to appear before the panel shows how her acts of commission and omission were not just a reflection of certain deficit in personal integrity, but how a sinister plot to use the market regulatory mechanism to safeguard the interests of corporates dear to the ruling party was brought into play.

Although ice has apparently been broken between India and China over conflicts and confrontations in Demchok and Depsang areas in eastern Ladakh, tensions have not been eliminated fully.

Due to declining scope of job opportunity in the organised and formal sector, women workers in India have been increasingly trying hard even to find a place in the unorganised and informal sectors sans social security. Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 for the period of July 2023 – June 2024 shows that their participation in the non-agriculture informal sector has been rising and stood at 61.2 per cent as against 58.4 per cent in 2021-22 on the usual status basis.

The Congress has left the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, leaving the field open for the Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav against the state-BJP led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who has sole responsibility of redeeming BJP after Akhilesh Yadav took the saffron party to the cleaners in the Lok Sabha elections with his 'Pichada Dalit Alpsankyak (PDA)' axis of resistance. The Samajwadi Party head has sworn to repeat his 2024 success in the 2027 assembly elections with the bypolls, set to take place on November 13, a stepping stone for the assembly polls.

With announcement of NDA and INDIA bloc’s candidates for byelections of all the 9 Vidhan Sabha Constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, one can now see the chief contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield, and also make an assessment of their respective strengths and weaknesses, the success or failure of which may decide the fate of Yogi Adityanath – as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also as the future prime ministerial candidate of the BJP.

BHOPAL: BJP which claims to be a party with a difference is facing unexpected and unprecedented opposition over the selection of a candidate for the Budhni Assembly seat. The Budhni is facing a bypoll to be held on November 13.The Budhni bypoll was necessitated after Shivraj Singh Chouhan vacated following his victory from Vidisha Lok Sabha seat in the recent Lok Sabha polls.

Jawaharlal Nehru University plans to teach the “Concept of Akhand Bharat”. It does not end here. The process has been unleashed. More distortions would be brought through Vidya Bharati, an institution through which the RSS runs a massive network of schools across the country. And here comes the question. How many deletions are to be inflicted on the history syllabus for schools, colleges and universities?

The one-hour meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 23 on the side lines of the BRICS summit at Kazan, has signalled a breakthrough in the bilateral relations between the two largest nations of Asia and the world. What was of significance of the latest meeting was the cordial optics and the mood of the two leaders who gave definite indications of going ahead with the task of restoring normal relations based on cooperation and competition.

The Indian government announced on October 21 that an agreement was reached between India and China on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is a welcome development that hopefully would lead to the normalisation of relations between the two neighbouring countries.