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Kerala Guv vs VCs: Need to sync univ statutes with UGC regulations
Last week, the Supreme Court set aside the appointment of the V-C of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University, Thiruvananthapuram. Citing the apex court verdict, Khan directed nine other V-Cs to resign and fixed a short deadline for their resignation. He also converted the communication to the V-Cs into show-cause notices, asking them to explain why their appointments should not be deemed illegal.
Muzzling free speech or legit controls? Social media politics divides govt, activists, experts
A young wushu player and boxer Maina Chutia, 23, college students Barshashree Buragohain, 19, Bitupan Changmai, 22, Pramod Kalita, 22 were separately arrested in Assam since May this year for allegedly commenting in Facebook posts in support of banned terror outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) headed by Paresh Baruah. Many people criticised the government for arresting them, while their families claimed that their poems and posts were not provocative.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel vs Jawaharlal Nehru: Hype vs Reality
To believe everything that one hears and reads now is much like meshugas. Truth cannot be patinated. Once injected with the truth serum of history, a new strain emerges.
Ready to risk their lives for 15 seconds of YouTube fame
Such is the craze of getting noticed on social media that the youth are willing to even risk their lives not to talk about being booked by law enforcing agencies, landing behind bars or drawing the ire of the society. Experts say the sheer reach of social media is prompting youth to do something unusual, crazy or even dangerous to get instant prominence.
Ambassador Chris Lu to represent US at special UNSC counter-terrorism meet in India
The CTC, headed by India, is to meet in Mumbai on Friday and in New Delhi on Saturday in India's untiring efforts to draw attention to international terrorism and push for action against it. The mission said that Lu will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony in honour of the victims of the 2008 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai and lead the US delegation in the CTC meetings there and in New Delhi that will focus on terrorism threats posed by emerging technologies.
Rishi Sunak's first speech shows that many challenges ahead
Rishi Sunak has become the UK's 57th prime minister, the first prime minister to be a British Asian, the first Hindu, and the richest person to have held the office. Former prime minister David Cameron had exuded confidence in 2014 when he had prophesised to see a British Asian taking on his role his life time.
Can the Governor's office impose itself on the people's government?
In the Constituent Assembly he was strongly confronted on the discretionary powers of the Governor and that it would lead to an autocratic regime in the provinces or states and that it would override the democratic ethos of government therein. But then our fathers were also confronted with the problem of uniting the nation and as a corollary to that, ensuring a visible and viable presence of the Centre in the States.
Deprecating Hindu identity is an act of political naivety
The word secularism was not used by the makers of the Constitution obviously because the concept was built into the Indian democracy through the adoption of 'one man one vote' without distinction of caste, creed and gender, express declaration of equality of opportunity and equal protection of law for all and a clear stipulation that in matters of state, religion will have no place.
Pakistan is living in a fool's paradise
Kashmir was and is a paradise where people of all religions live in harmony and that tradition continues. Pakistan's actions divided the state into Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and Jammu and Kashmir, a scenario that continues till date. Kashmiris remember October 22, 1947, as the day of the commencement of hell, till Indian soldiers landed to protect them.
Political chaos in United Kingdom
Liz Truss resigned as the Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday after reading out a statement outside 10, Downing Street. She said she was doing so because she could not deliver the mandate on which she was elected as the Tory leader, just 46 days before.
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