General Secretary of the Congress Party Digvijay Singh told the media in Azamgarh recently that he had demanded a judicial inquiry into the Batla House fake encounter but the Prime Minister and the Home Minister thought that it was a genuine encounter, so there is no need for any inquiry.

Similarly, the Modi government of Gujarat has been singing in the same tune that all encounters in Gujarat are genuine, but after appointment of SIT by the Supreme Court, the reality has started comi...

‘The Hindu’, which had been hitherto a secular national daily, has morphed into a prejudiced outfit in recent years, especially after Praveen Swami started writing its editorials. The editorial “Stand up for Salman Rushdie” published on Jan 19 has concluded with the words: ”It is an insult to the intelligence and good sense of India’s 160 million-strong Muslim community to make out that it wants a prodigiously gifted writer, born in a Muslim f...

The Election Commission move to cover statues and symbols constructed by UP state Chief Minister Mayawati in Noida and Lucknow would need procurement of material, transportation and arrangement of manpower. Almost one crore has already been expended to get polythene and cloth for draping the statues.

People are already aware of how much money was spent on all those statues and symbols. It is sad but they know the truth and which can’t be kept hidden like this. People are not foo...

The Election Commission’s decision to get Mayawati’s and her elephants’ statues covered at such a great cost and inconvenience will be remembered as a big blunder. The silence of other political parties was unprincipled and opportunistic. What would they have said if their own symbol was treated likewise? In any case this exercise is likely to benefit Mayawati as she will earn people’s sympathy for such wrong done to her. What is the EC going to do about the Samajwadi ...