External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. | Photo Credit: PTI There is a clear and urgent need for a new multilateral system that reflects contemporary global realities as past few years “exposed” the “stark inadequacies” of the existing structures, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. In a virtual address at the 58th Session of the … Read more
A police patrol vehicle parked on the main road near Jubilee hills check post in Hyderabad in 2019. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The story so far: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court in Deepa versus S. Vijayalakshmi and Others ruled that the legal provision in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, … Read more
The New Delhi elections bore witness to an intense battle of narratives, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promising a double-engine sarkaar to voters while battering the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its failures in governance, and its myriad corruption scandals. While the AAP attempted to reframe the discourse to welfare, and the Centre-State conflict, it … Read more
Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare earth minerals. Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare … Read more
Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Enforcement Directorate has arrested The Hindu’s Ahmedabad correspondent Mahesh Langa under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the agency said on Tuesday. “Mahesh Prabhudan Langa was produced before the Special Judge (PMLA), Mirzapura Court, Ahmedabad, and the Special Judge (PMLA) has granted four days’ ED … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah | Photo Credit: IMRAN NISSAR Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) said the description of Article 370 as a “temporary or transitional [provision] was because J&K’s status had not been fully formalised” at the time of its accession to India in 1947. … Read more
ED arrests journalist in money laundering case
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: H.S. Manjunath The participation of men and women in the 15-59 age group in employment and related activities in a day increased to 75% and 25%, respectively, in 2024 from 70.9% and 21.8% in 2019, according to a survey on time use conducted by the National Statistics Office. The … Read more
The judgment laid down a few indicative parameters to guide constitutional courts while examining the proportionality of the actions taken by the House against MPs, MLCs or MLAs, as the case may be, in the future | Photo Credit: Reuters The Supreme Court on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) held that the constitutional court must maintain … Read more
A worker holds a lotus flower as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah look on during celebrations at the BJP HQ after the party won the Delhi Assembly election, in New Delhi, on February 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spent ₹1,754 crore on election or general … Read more