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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.

The question for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is not whether either country will recognise Israel but when and who will go first.

Like it or lump it: the Chinese have more influence on you and me than what we are ready to admit. Apparently, the world is increasingly revolving around China, a proposition that the West used to boast. Whether it is the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan that brought the world down, or the post-covid zero tolerance by the Chinese authorities towards the virus, manifesting in localised lockdowns, keeping an estimated 130 million people strictly indoors, leading to unprecedented supply chain disruptions, worse than what was experienced during the pandemic.

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.