Two words that have occupied the maximum space in the sphere of political discourse all across the globe in the last two decades are (1) Terrorism and (2) Secularism. ‘Terrorism’ appears to have replaced the word ‘communism’ which the west had identified as the main enemy till the collapse of the Soviet Union. Secularism is [...]
Dear Narendrabhai Why do you have to undertake this “Sadbhavna Mission” by observing three days “upvaas”?? No other Chief Minister of the 26 States in India has to do such a “prayaschit” to earn sadbhavna! Have you finally realized after about a decade that all the so called “developmental” publicity cannot earn you the faith, [...]
Gujarat IPS officer Rahul Sharma was chargesheeted for indiscipline on Saturday. He was chargesheeted for misconduct in taking away CDs from the 2002 riots case papers. The chargesheet came a day after Home Mininister P Chidambaram said that the Centre is willing to intervene in the IPS officers versus Gujarat Government fight. Sharma’s lawyer Mukul [...]
It has been claimed that more than one crore missed phone calls were made to Anna Hazare in support of the Janlokpal bill. Unfortunately, none of the callers could ask him whether scamsters like Ketan Parekh, Telgi or the late Harshad Mehta could have been booked under the law that Anna says will root out [...]
Senior officer in the central Intelligence Bureau, Rajendra Kumar, has been named as an accused in the fresh complaint submitted to the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Saturday by Sabbir Mehtar in the Sadik Jamal encounter case. Sabbir is the brother of Sadik who was gunned down by DCB sleuths in an encounter in [...]
Gujarat High Court on Friday asked the chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) R R Verma to probe the retraction of statements by the witnesses in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Insisting on speeding up of investigation into the case, a bench comprising Justice Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha Kumari directed Verma to submit [...]
The Nanavati Commission, probing the 2002 post-Godhra riots, today rejected an application challenging the cross-examination of Gujarat IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, saying it was devoid of merits. The application was filed by Jamiat-Ulma-E-Hind (JUH) on May 25. JUH had contended that Bhatt cannot be cross- examined as he was summoned by the two-member panel by [...]
The role of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) in the Sadik Jamal encounter case has come under a shadow as it allegedly did not make a ‘single’ attempt to further investigate the killing. Sadik was killed in an encounter on the midnight of January 13, 2003. After the encounter, the DCB had in a [...]
A Division Bench of Gujarat High Court comprising Mr. Justice M.S. Shah and Ms. Justice H.N. Devani after preliminary hearing of a public interest litigation filed by Mr. Shamshad Pathan, a member of Jan Sangharsh Manch issued notice to the State of Gujarat, Inspector General of Police (Prisons) and the Jail Superintendent of Sabarmati Central [...]
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. Yes! India has woken up to freedom, but for whom? After 61 years of Independence, around 400 million unorganised workers struggle to survive without any tangible right, though they substantially contribute to the national income. No employment [...]
