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Advocates’ Dress Code Exemplifies Absurdity
My good friend Asok Pande, a practising Advocate, mainly at the High Court of Lucknow, has raised a very pertinent point in a PIL before the High Court that the dress code of judges and advocates as prescribed by the Bar Council should be scrapped as it is totally unsuitable to the clime and culture…
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Why Conversions ought to be Denounced?
Cases of religious conversions have increased across the country. Until a few years ago ‘conversion’ was thought to be switching over of the religious beliefs mostly of Hindus to Christianity. It was a common scene in Uttar Pradesh that any Christian missionaries would come to the remote villages and open a school in the name…
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Government Schemes in Villages must be Monitored to Stem the Corruption
The disease of corruption has become chronic and has taken such deep roots as to cause nausea. It was expected that the Panchayati Raj system will stem the rot of corruption to a great extent but, unfortunately, on the other hand, it has grown on a bigger scale. Even for an election to the post…
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India must extend all possible support to Israel
The current war that is raging in Israel and Palestine is possibly the longest one between the two. Israel has already smashed the ribs and bones of Hamas, the terrorist outfit of Palestinians and supported by 57 other Muslim countries. Hamas was the first to launch attacks on Israel with 3000 rockets, but instead of…
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Mamata must avoid becoming the Chief Minister
It is expected that in all likelihoods Mamata Banerjee will again be elected the leader of the TMC Vidhayak Dal to become the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time in a row because itis she who has steered cleared the party to a thumping win, although she herself has been defeated by…
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Agartala DM needs psychiatric treatment
Agartala District Magistrate Shailesh Kumar Yadav deserves to be pitied and needs to be sent to a mental asylum. What he has done, on the night of the day before yesterday, to spoil the joyous wedding celebrations at two places can be done only by an insane person and not by the one who is…
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Modi’s Address to Combat Covid is Re-assuring
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s twenty minutes address to the nation the last night was highly reassuring. The forces that have been busy spreading negativity, lies and canards about Covid -19 must have got tight slaps on their face after Modi’s address. These were the people, who were cursing the government last year for foisting lockdown…
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Excavation of Gyanvapi will unearth reality: a Welcome Order
Think for a moment that if Rakhal Das Banerji and John Marshall of Archaeological Survey of India had not undertaken the excavations of Harappa in 1922, would it have been possible for the whole world to know about Mohen jo-Daro and the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed thousands of years ago? The world would have…
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Yogi has Come With Flying Colours
Yogi Adityanath’s name will be written in golden letters for reining the anti-social elements, goondas and mafia dons, who had infested the entire state of Uttar Pradesh during the long misrule of all parties. There is still a lot to be done but even then, what he has done has, undoubtedly, brought huge relief to…
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Rename High Courts after their Jurisdictional States
The PIL lawyer and my friend Asok Pande (this is how he writes his name) from Lucknow has been campaigning for the change of name Allahabad High Court and redetermination of the territorial jurisdiction of Allahabad and Lucknow Bench of the High Court. His demands are absolutely logical, and the Parliament must take up this…