Swapan Dasgupta
The declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975
The debate over whether the bunker-buster bombs destroy uranium storage and processing facilities may take longer to settle, but Iran’s theocrats have plenty to chew on
The Emergency was a black chapter in India’s post-Independence history which has mercifully not been repeated. The curtailment of Article 352 and the proactive role of the constitutional courts in protecting the ‘basic structure' of the Constitution have prevented political overreach
Defaulting on rents for slum dwellers of SRA projects has assumed such proportions that the government now insists developers deposit two years of rent in advance
A competition to woo the minority community by calling Israel names in the backdrop of its attack on Iran
The auspicious event was attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who turned 53 around the same time
The announcement came around a month after the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) gave its approval for conducting a caste census
Maoism finds itself on the verge of extinction after a series of strategic mistakes over more than a quarter century