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New Delhi, 25/04/2016: Index-- Supreme Court Judge Justice Dipak Misra in New Delhi on April 24, 2016. Photo : R. V. Moorthy

Media and the judiciary

The press has a right and a duty to keep a vigil on the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.The courts and the media cannot afford to cling t

Srinagar: Police chase away protesters throwing stones on them during a clash in Srinagar on Saturday. Separatist groups called for strike in Srinagar to protest the Supreme Courts decision to stay an FIR against army personnel in the Shopian firing. PTI Photo by S Irfan (PTI2_17_2018_000200B)

The Army above the law

It is not only wrong but dangerously subversive of the rule of law and democracy itself to put a soldier on a pedestal above the “ordinary” citizen.

Watergate reporters Carl Bernstein, left, and Bob Woodward talk on the set before their appearance on the NBC-TV 'Today' program, in New York Thursday June 2, 2005. Carl Bernstein said 'it's a very strange feeling' now that the Watergate source known as 'Deep Throat' has been publicly identified. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Journalistic immunity

When the interests of justice, national security and prevention of crime are not involved, the journalist’s rights to gather information and put it in

Mao Tse Tung, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, talks with Jawaharlal Nehru at the reception by Embassy of the Republic of India in Peking on October 21, 1954.
Photo: The Hindu Archives

Dark secrets exposed

Avtar Singh Bhasin’s volumes expose the fecklessness surrounding foreign policy and the falsehoods retailed by New Delhi on the border dispute with Ch

Muslims today

Seventy years after Independence, the Muslims of India have very real grievances. No political party, secular or ”communal”, has made a sincere effort

Can judges protest?

The root of the problem is not management of the Supreme Court’s roster but the credibility of the highest court of the country, which the issues rais

TV SERIES AND DOCUMENTARIES: SANJAY KHAN IN THE HINDI SERIAL 'THE SWORD OF TIPU SULTAN' ON STAR PLUS.

Hysteria on history

How ancient hatreds are invented and the politics of identity and community, of religion, ethnicity and gender has begun to occupy the space vacated b

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses his supporters during an election campaign meeting ahead of the second phase of Gujarat state assembly elections, in Nadiad, India December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave

Our swadeshi McCarthy

Modi’s divisive politics and hateful rhetoric during the final phase of the campaign for the Gujarat elections have profound legal, moral and politica

Babri Masjid demolition on 6th Dec 1992-
Photo by-SANJAY SHARMA/INDIAPIX NETWORK

Supreme Court on trial

The Supreme Court should consider seriously whether it should proceed with the appeals on the Ayodhya case at all after quashing the partitioning judg

(FILES): This file photo taken on June 18, 2013 shows then Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller awaiting the start of a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
A Washington grand jury on Friday, October 27, 2017 approved the first charges in the probe led by independent prosecutor Robert Mueller, CNN reported, citing sources briefed on the matter. The approval of the charges -- details of which remain unclear -- would mark a major step forward in the sweeping investigation into potential links between US President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential vote.
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Impeaching Trump

The book is an invaluable guide to the drama unfolding on Capitol Hill as a series of exposures threaten to derail the Trump presidency.

Britain & Arabs

Three books of high scholarship together establish the enormity of the crime of the Balfour Declaration on establishing “a national home” for the Jewi

Border disputes

The book provides vital clues to understanding the situation in the Gulf region.