Opinion

SIDHU’S REINDUCTION IN AMARINDER CABINET APPEARS IMMINENT

07 Dec 2020 03:35 AM IST

There are enough indications to suggest that the swashbuckling former Indian Test opener and currently a Congress politician from Punjab is likely to rejoin the Amarinder Singh government in the near future. The follow-up meeting which Sidhu had, over the weekend, with Sports Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi in Amritsar

MERELY INVITING TOP FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES WON’T HELP MUCH

07 Dec 2020 03:34 AM IST

We need to learn from the global experience which shows that none of the leading universities has ever been successful in transferring the culture of its main campus to its branch-campus. India should seriously strategise for reciprocal obligation and a perfect mutualism.

QUTUB MINAR SHOULD BE OPENED TO PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN

05 Dec 2020 03:51 AM IST

4 December 1981 is a date deeply etched in my mind. It was a Friday as it is also on the same day this year. Qutub Minar, the 72.5 metre high, 13th century monument was closed for the general people, after 45 people, mostly schoolchildren from Nuh and the other

Time to Look and Act East through Bangladesh

05 Dec 2020 03:49 AM IST

Raising the bar of the India-Bangladesh economic and strategic relationship to the next level can be a major contributing factor for success of the government’s ‘Act East’ policy

Scope of judicial interference with arbitral awards: A journey from Renusagar’s case to Ssangyong’s case to the Ordinance 2020

04 Dec 2020 09:45 AM IST

Section 5 of the Act of 1996 provides for limited intervention of the courts in the arbitral proceedings. Section 35 thereof attaches ‘finality’ to the arbitral award and, as per Section 36(1), an award holder has to wait for a period of 3 months after the receipt of the award

MODI GOVT DOES NO ROLLBACKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT HOPE TO GAIN FROM FARM LAWS?

04 Dec 2020 06:54 AM IST

For the NCR this is fast becoming an annual feature. Last year the roads into the national capital were blocked by those protesting against the controversial Citizens’ Amendment Act (CAA). The protestors held firm; even as they were shifted to Shaheen Bagh, they ensured that they were not contained in

Why can’t I delete my nudes? A case for Right to be Forgotten

04 Dec 2020 06:53 AM IST

Granting citizens across the globe the ‘right to be forgotten’ can be a welcome move in the Internet age, but legislating on it will require striking a fine balance between matters of privacy, censorship, freedom of expression and corporate policies.

MODI’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC REFORMS ARE BIGGEST GAME CHANGERS FOR INDIA

03 Dec 2020 07:17 AM IST

Contrary to what naysayers have been saying, the priorities of the Modi government are multifold and intended to benefit everyone. His vision and strategy are clearly visible in the implementation of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and the economic gains India has made even through the pandemic.

WILL SUPER-SPREADER CHINA GET AWAY WITH MURDER?

03 Dec 2020 07:13 AM IST

A report by CNN this week, based on documents leaked from Hubei province shows how Beijing was not releasing the correct picture to the world about the extent of the spread of the coronavirus in China. Apart from the fact that it was completely unable to tackle the spread, with

How Centre can deal with farmers without getting into confrontation

03 Dec 2020 07:11 AM IST

Of the three farm Acts, except for the first one, the latter two are negotiable and could have avoided the massive agitation and mass disruption of normal life around the capital city which is still to recover from the Shaheen Bagh fatigue.

An overview of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1956

03 Dec 2020 07:09 AM IST

In a recent judgement pronounced on 24 September 2020, the Bombay High Court has expressly reiterated that ‘prostitution is not an offence and an adult woman has a right to choose her vocation’, thereby upholding the fundamental rights of prostitutes as citizens enshrined in Part III of the Constitution of

Police should avoid being a part of political and media circuses

02 Dec 2020 08:22 AM IST

Recent cases across the country have raised serious questions about the functions of the police and embarrassed the establishment responsible for maintaining law and order. It is high time that the police define their roles and refuse to be a part of any political or media conspiracies, and focus on