Junjar Singh Lodha, who got Indian citizenship long ago, has a wish from the government which is to restart the Thar Express — an international passenger train that used to run between Jodhpur in Rajasthan and Karachi Cantonment of Karachi in the Pakistani province of Sindh, which was suspended in 2019. Read More

Among the invitations New Delhi has received straight after election results are out in June are those for the Prime Minister or External Affairs Minister to attend the Ukraine peace conference to be held on June 15-16 in Lucerne, Switzerland, as well as for the External Affairs Minister to travel to the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod for the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting on June 10-11. Read More

In a six-page order, Supreme Court Registrar Puneet Sehgal said that the Collegium system had already been upheld, while the NJAC — which gave an equal role to the government in judicial appointments — had been struck down by a Constitution Bench in October 2015. Read More

In 2020 and 2021, the Cyclones Amphan and Yaas — rendered more ferocious by climate change — deepened the destitution wrought earlier in parts of the delta by Cyclone Alia in 2009. Read More

The Green Credit Programme, announced by the Environment Ministry in October 2023, is a market-based mechanism where individuals and companies can claim incentives called ‘green credits’ for contributions to environmental and ecological restoration. Read More

With the Maldivian results in, and the Indian election results in June, New Delhi and Male have an occasion to try and mend their frayed ties. Read More

Superficially, it has led efforts for the two-state solution following the 1973 Arab-Israel war in various forms including U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s Camp David talks, Bill Clinton’s Parameters for the two-state solution, George Bush’s Road Map to Peace, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Six Principles. Read More

“The Union has to activate itself,” Justice Hima Kohli, who is heading the Supreme Court Bench hearing the case against Patanjali Ayurved and its leaders Acharya Balkrishna and Baba Ramdev, observed on April 23 in the context of the government not having taken any action against the company for publishing advertisements touting untested, pseudoscientific cures for COVID-19, diabetes, and other conditions. Read More

Section 53 of The Representation of the People Act, 1951 says: “(1) If the number of contesting candidates is more than the number of seats to be filled, a poll shall be taken.] (2) If the number of such candidates is equal to the number of seats to be filled, the returning officer shall forthwith declare all such candidates to be duly elected to fill those seats.” The system is weighed in favour of the contesting candidates because the RPA provides that a complete boycott will be treated as everyone receiving zero vote and covered under Section 65 which deals with ‘Equality of votes’. Read More

The complaints attached to the notice, however, are those of the Congress against Mr. Modi’s “malicious election speech delivered at Banswara (Rajasthan)”, along with complaints from other parties, such as the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Read More