'“Bowed down to media, secular and liberal bullies? We work for you tirelessly, selflessly. This is the reward,” tweeted @RitaG74, who is “blessed to be followed by Modi”. This was an attack on Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for saying, “I strongly condemn and deplore the messages on social media expressing happiness on the dastardly murder of Gauri Lankesh.” The troll was upset that she was being scolded for celebrating a brutal murder...
'The man the BJP once described as a 'key suspect' in the Louis Berger case is now a senior minister in its own government... Two years ago, on July 21, 2015, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a booklet at a meeting of party MPs in New Delhi with the title ‘Water Supply Scam 2010 in Goa and Guwahati’. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'A case was registered at the Kotwali police station here on Thursday against Bihar minister Abdul Jalil Mastan for allegedly asking a crowd at a public rally to hit the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with shoes. The rally was organised against the Prime Minister’s demonetisation move at Mastan’s Amour assembly constituency in Purnia district, 370 km from state capital Patna, on February 22. Bankipore (Patna) MLA Nitin Navin, who lodged the case, accused Mastan of spreading hatred and disturbing social harmony and peace.
'For half a century she has represented those with no voice. Now India’s first ever female senior advocate has a new battle on her hands... She has fought some of the most high-profile legal cases of the last half century, such as the case for compensation for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, considered one of the world’s worst industrial disasters... In India’s sluggish judicial system, many of the battles Jaising has taken on have stretched for years, even decades.
'One year after a controversial event by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living foundation on the Yamuna flood plains in Delhi raised questions about the environmental credentials of India’s influential godmen, a retired high court judge has pointed to building violations by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation in Coimbatore and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to “lend legitimacy” to them by attending a function there.
'The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has served a severe indictment to union health minister J.P. Nadda, who is also the president of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and AIIMS director M.C. Misra. The tribunal has quashed orders issued by them against whistleblower and Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi for so-called “indiscipline, insubordination and lack of work ethics”. Orders against Chaturvedi were in violation of principle of natural justice, the tribunal said.
'The Indian Express sting operation on the Ishrat Jahan investigation, carried as a lead story on the front page in today's (June 16, 2016) edition of the newspaper known for its investigative journalism, nails what most of us, who have been working and reporting on this case for years, have been saying for long. That the truth has been the biggest casualty in the political blame game in the extrajudicial murder of the 19-year-old girl from Mumbra, Thane, Ishrat Jahan.
'An advocate has filed a complaint in a Delhi court seeking prosecution of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘coward and psychopath.’ According to the complainant, Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Mr. Kejriwal had allegedly tweeted on his twitter handle on December 15 that ‘Modi is a coward and a psychopath’, reacting to the CBI raid at the office of the Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar, at the Delhi Secretariat in a corruption case.
'Incredibly, the government of India will spend more on this one line than it does on rail safety, Swachh Bharat, schools, highways or health... In every which way, Narendra Modi’s 2014 campaign was spectacular. From communication to ground management, the Bharatiya Janata Party electoral machine, it is widely acknowledged, got it right. However, a year and a half after Modi took office, one aspect of his campaign seems to have been a bit too spectacular altogether.
'...Modi's emphatic victory in the 2014 elections was widely attributed to his having focused on the agenda of economic modernization - that is to say, the need to nourish technological innovation, to make manufacturing viable again, to create better infrastructure, and to improve transparency and efficiency in government. Those loyal to the BJP and Hindutva had, of course, voted for him.
