#Politics | More than 75% of the income of 27 regional political parties of India in FY 2021-22, amounting to Rs, 887.55 crore, came from unknown sources, says an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
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Regional Parties Got More Than 75% of Income From Unknown Sources
The proportion of income from unknown sources for the previous year was about 50%.
The top court insisted that it will have to hear all the accused before it can stay their acquittal. https://t.co/VZfdnPjWrm
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Supreme Court Orders Release of Four Jaipur Blasts Accused Acquitted by High Court
The top court insisted that it will have to hear all the accused before it can stay their acquittal.
The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 18, stayed the ban imposed by West Bengal on the controversial film The Kerala Story, but also asked the producers to add a disclaimer. https://t.co/gAr9uYPvBR
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Supreme Court Stays West Bengal's Ban on Controversial Movie 'Kerala Story'
The court said that the decision of the West Bengal government to ban the movie prima facie suffers from overbreadth
#Politics | Karnataka has shown, as West Bengal did earlier, that divisive issues and polarisation don’t work everywhere, writes Sidharth Bhatia.
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Why the BJP Won’t – and Can’t – Give Up on Hindutva as an Electoral Strategy
Karnataka has shown, as West Bengal did earlier, that divisive issues and polarisation don’t work everywhere.
The time has come for Shudra-OBC leaders across the nation to unite and lead the country with positive democratic welfarism and putting a firm end to communalism in the name of OBC politics. | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd https://t.co/w8HefnbQ59
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Siddaramaiah: A Rational OBC Counter to Modi’s Communal OBC Politics
The time has come for Shudra-OBC leaders across the nation to unite and lead the country with positive democratic welfarism and putting a firm end to communalism in the name of OBC politics.
Goldman Sachs' ESG funds reduced their exposure to Adani firms in the weeks following allegations of fraud against the conglomerate by Hindenburg Research, Bloomberg reported. https://t.co/6pkAESCNol
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Goldman Sachs’ ESG Funds Cut Exposure to Adani Firms Amid Hindenburg’s Fraud Allegations
Goldman funds sold about 11.7 million shares in Adani companies in February, according to Bloomberg data. These funds are registered as promoting environmental, social and governance goals under European Union rules.
The order was passed on a petition alleging that six Myanmarese minors, kept in jail along with their mothers and grandmothers, were unlawfully detained even after serving their prescribed sentences. https://t.co/RpsJQS7hoI
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Manipur Human Rights Body Orders Release of Myanmarese Refugees Who Were Detained Beyond Jail Term
The order was passed on a petition alleging that six Myanmarese minors, kept in jail along with their mothers and grandmothers, were unlawfully detained even after serving their prescribed sentences.
Building on the declarations in the Udaipur and Raipur Conclaves and the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the recent polls suggest that Congress has arrived at a definitive narrative to take to the Indian people till, during, and (hopefully) beyond 2024. | https://t.co/80mKPgzzpt
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The Karnataka Assembly Election Marks the Consolidation of Congress’s Ideological Core
Building on the declarations in the Udaipur and Raipur Conclaves and the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the recent polls suggest that Congress has arrived at a definitive narrative to take to the Indian people till, during, and (hopefully) beyond 2024.
India’s ultra-high-net-worth individuals worth over $30 million are estimated to rise by 58.4% over the next five years, rising from 12,069 in 2022 to 19,119 individuals by 2027. https://t.co/tzzsNDtPBq
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India’s Millionaires Set To Rise While Masses Hit By Joblessness, Inflation
India’s ultra-high-net-worth individuals worth over $30 million are estimated to rise by 58.4% over the next five years, rising from 12,069 in 2022 to 19,119 individuals by 2027.
As Indian women take their rightful place in the world of sports, have the sports federations and the government ensured the necessary mechanisms for their equality, dignity and bodily integrity? Or are these women still playing in a man’s world? https://t.co/XvnoCT8CtQ
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Wrestling Patriarchy: The Herculean Task of India's Sportswomen
As Indian women take their rightful place in the world of sports, have the sports federations and the government ensured the necessary mechanisms for their equality, dignity and bodily integrity? Or are these women still playing in a man’s world?
It's interesting to analyse how a Union minister, who was against decriminalising gay sex, has been made the law minister at a time when the Supreme Court is hearing crucial petitions on same-sex marriage in India. https://t.co/2hSeO5SKt4
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New Law Minister Had Raised Private Bill To Overrule Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in 2012
It's interesting to analyse how a Union minister, who was against decriminalising gay sex, has been made the law minister at a time when the Supreme Court is hearing crucial petitions on same-sex marriage in India.
Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan is in a standoff with authorities who have surrounded his house. In his first interview since a police deadline expired, Khan told DW an "unprecedented crackdown is taking place." https://t.co/IRJg3Jr60q
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‘I Expect to Be Rearrested,’ Says Pakistan’s Ex-PM Imran Khan
Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan is in a standoff with authorities who have surrounded his house. In his first interview since a police deadline expired, Khan told DW an "unprecedented crackdown is taking place."
As hate and toxicity swirl in our midst, with so much of this poison just a clickbait video or WhatsApp forward away, one realises how careful, really careful, we need to be with our own kids. https://t.co/HQNPkgqQxp
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Parenting in an Age of Narratives Over Facts
As hate and toxicity swirl in our midst, with so much of this poison just a clickbait video or WhatsApp forward away, one realises how careful, really careful, we need to be with our own kids.
'..what caused so much conflict
purple blue bodies
lying unclaimed
on both sides.'
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purple blue bodies
lying unclaimed
on both sides.'
Read @akshshro's poem for @livewire
https://t.co/VT6GSGyYTV
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of love and borders
i used to wonder / what caused so much conflict / purple blue bodies / lying unclaimed / on both sides.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly constructed parliament building on May 28, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said in a statement. https://t.co/BKe4N6a1GO
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PM Modi to Inaugurate New Parliament Building on May 28
The new parliament building can seat 888 members in the Lok Sabha chamber and 300 in the Rajya Sabha chamber.
The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed concern over the death of three cheetahs translocated from South Africa and Namibia to Kuno National Park of Madhya Pradesh. https://t.co/Xl5E2uefTz
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‘Cheetahs Brought to India Need to Be Protected,’ Says SC on Deaths of 3 Cheetahs in Nearly 2 Months
The top court has asked the Union government to consider shifting them to Rajasthan.
Dr Jill Carr-Harris speaks to The Wire about discovering rural India, supporting local economies, and the need for economic decentralisation. https://t.co/vNMUMQ43a0
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What is a ‘Nonviolent Economy’ and How Can We Get There? An Activist Explains
Dr Jill Carr-Harris speaks to The Wire about discovering rural India, supporting local economies, and the need for economic decentralisation.
As we protest the large-scale deletions of our past from textbooks for our children, it is important to remember not to own historical names and events in order to take sides in our current political battles. | Atreyee Majumder https://t.co/Cp8YjIC68Q
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The History of India Is Complex and Complicated. It Cannot Be Neatly Sanitised.
Evidence of our syncretic culture comes from various sources, including contemporary history.
However, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the matter on July 14 if the high court does not hear it on July 3. https://t.co/PY77SZSSg0
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Supreme Court Refuses to Lift Patna HC's Stay on Bihar Caste Census
However, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the matter on July 14 if the high court does not hear it on July 3.
The daughter of assassinated rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, Mukta Dabholkar, has approached the Supreme Court against the Bombay high court's refusal to continue monitoring the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into his murder. https://t.co/GBCCCpBhxO
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Narendra Dabholkar's Daughter Approaches SC Against HC's Refusal to Keep Monitoring CBI Probe
Dabholkar, an anti-superstition crusader, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants on August 20, 2013.