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23 Pakistan-based persons designated terrorists under UAPA
The Union government on Saturday designated 23 persons allegedly linked to Pakistan-based terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa and The Resistance Front as terrorists under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The persons are accused of being involved in recruiting and training militants, facilitating infiltrations, providing logistical support, financing, weapons supply, drone-based delivery of weapons and planning…
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‘Aurangzeb Alamgir and the Mughal Empire’ rescues the emperor from both praise and condemnation
Few historical figures in South Asia’s long and layered past provoke as much heat as Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth Mughal emperor who ruled for nearly half a century from 1658 until his death in 1707 at the age of 88. In contemporary India, his name has become a flashpoint: roads renamed, cities rechristened, textbook battles,…
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Child rights panel takes cognisance of sexual abuse material allegedly being promoted on Instagram
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Friday took suo moto cognisance of the child sexual abuse material allegedly being promoted through advertisements on social media platform Instagram following a BBC report. The panel said it was closely following the matter. On Friday, the BBC reported that it had found that Instagram had…
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‘Satluj’ review: A harrowing, heart-rending tale of impunity and courage
Honey Trehan’s Punjab ’95, which was in censorship purgatory for nearly four years, is finally out on the streaming platform Zee5. Punjab ’95 has a new title – Satluj. Call the film by any name, it remains a harrowing, heart-rending chronicle of the consequences of unchecked state power. The Hindi-Punjabi movie, which is led by…
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Talk of separate Tamil Nadu today would be seen as mental health issue, not sedition: Madras HC
Statements about making Tamil Nadu a separate country will not amount to sedition in today’s social context, the Madras High Court has said. Instead, a person making such a comment will be viewed as having mental health issues, it observed. Such a statement can at best cause “annoyance and therefore, in the present social milieu,…
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Citizens entitled to protest, BJP ‘murdabad’ slogan not grounds for externment: Bombay HC
Protesting against the decisions of the government or shouting slogans against it are not grounds to expel a citizen from an area, the Bombay High Court observed on Thursday while quashing an externment order against a political leader. Justice Madhav Jamdar set aside an order issued by Chembur deputy commissioner of police in Mumbai that…
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Why does India’s Constitution include preventive detention? TM Krishna’s book examines the reasons
In West Bengal, the new BJP government has passed a law allowing the government to detain for a year anyone who is “generally reputed to be desperate and dangerous to the community” and to restrict the detainee’s access to a lawyer. The opposition has labelled the law as “scary” and said that it wouldn’t stand…