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Roots of the impasse

Avtar Singh Bhasin’s book on the India-Pakistan deadlock unravels secrets of many a crucial episode and provides full references to enable the reader

June 5, 2004: Nana Deshmukh (right) with A.B. Vajpayee on the occasion of Sampurna Kranti Diwas in New Delhi.

Nana Deshmukh: Bharat Ratna for a FUNDRAISER

Nana Deshmukh has been conferred the Bharat Ratna for 2019. He neither enriched Parliament nor the public platform nor the press with his contribution

Union Home Ministry guidelines dated September 1, 2000, on visas to foreign intellectuals, first page.

Right to listen in person

The refusal of a visa can be struck down if it is on the face of it arbitrary or violative of an international treaty or of the state’s own citizens.

September 24, 1949: At the opening session of the All Jammu and Kashmir National Conference in Srinagar. Jawaharlal Nehru (fifth from left), Sheikh Abdullah (to his right), Sardar Baldev Singh (second from left), N.V. Gadgil (extreme left) and others are seated on the dais.

A dubious Constitution

The Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir is not legally valid because it was enacted by an Assembly that had been installed through a coup by the Centre in

THE PEOPLE’S JINNAH HALL

Both Indians and Pakistanis believe that Jinnah was politically born on March 23, 1940, the day the Muslim League adopted the Pakistan resolution. Bot

Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra (right) with Justice Kurian Joseph at a function in Delhi in New Delhi on December 3.

Pressures on judges

Justice Kurian Joseph’s disclosures immediately after retirement touch upon the integrity and independence of judges of the Supreme Court.

The Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters in New Delhi.

The police & the Constitution

A charter of the CBI will be worthless unless it gives statutory recognition to the principle that it is a police officer’s duty to enforce the law an

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a Dussehra function in Gorakhpur, where he addressed a gathering of supporters, including sadhus. He asked his supporters to prepare for a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

RSS’ endgame in Ayodhya

There is no legal route for the present dispensation to use an ordinance to build a Ram temple, but the Sangh Parivar looks set to resort to legal thu

A Muslim soldier

The test of a Sarkari Mussalman is the selling of the soul. The author is not a Sarkari Mussalman, but ambition drives him to hover precariously on th

September 1990: L.K. Advani launching his rath yatra in Somnath, Gujarat, which led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

Courts and Babri Masjid

When the Ayodhya dispute comes up for hearing before the Supreme Court on October 29, the fundamentals of India’s secular polity, public confidence in

Namaz being offered at the Taj-ul-masjid in Bhopal.

The mosque in Islamic law and faith

NO one who has followed Justice J.S. Verma’s pronouncement, on and off the bench, should be surprised at his sweeping and woefully ignorant re

O.P. Singh, DGP, Uttar Pradesh. Encounters are part of crime prevention, he said recently.

Encounter epidemic

The process of investigation into crime and prosecution of criminals needs to be protected from interference by politicians, and international protoco