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Support for Local Languages by the CJI is Welcome but Disapproval to Address as ‘Your Honour’ is Inexplicable
In the week just gone by, Chief Justice of India made two observations during hearings of the two unrelated cases. One of them deserves unqualified praise from all section of the society, which underscores the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), he has said that that hearings of the Courts can be conducted in any language…
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Rioters and Criminals Must be Made to Pay Damages for the Properties Destroyed
As the age-old saying goes ‘take the sting of deterrence from the law and the order will go haywire’. That is what has happened in Bengaluru on 11th of August, a day before the Janmashtami when an unruly and violent crowd of nearly two thousand persons destroyed the property worth crores of Rupees and three…
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Doing Away of English in the New Educational Policy at the Primary Level is a Welcome Step
The elite class and elitist schools in India are most rattled with new education policy, which lays emphasis on the medium of instruction of all subjects through mother tongue, local or national language up to 5th standard. English will only be taught as one of the subjects. Now the lobby of the perverts says that…
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Bewildering Cry of Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah, the former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir has expressed his extreme frustration in an article in a newspaper by declaring that he would not contest any election in future till the status quo ante of the state is restored. Can there be any consolation to his wishful thinking except pitying him? The…
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Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen is a Tribute to a Great Warrior
In our area, there is an unwritten prohibition for not keeping the book Mahabharat in the home. The popular belief is that who keep Mahabharat in their house, they unwittingly invite quarrels and struggles in their own families. Superstition has no logic. So, people read it in bits and pieces. My acquaintance of Mahabharat was…
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O, Christ! Forgive Justice Banumathi for Attributing Her Rise to Only Your Grace
Justice R Banumathi, who retired today as the Judge of the Supreme Court thanked Jesus Christ more than once in her farewell speech organized by the Supreme Court Bar Association for making her what she is. It was uncalled for her to have uttered that ‘though she is a Hindu, she believes in the gospel…
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Three Cs (Communism, Christianity and China) are Causing Rift Between Nepal and India
It is cliché to say that the Nepal-India relationship is very old. In fact, it is inseparable, and the credit goes to the people of both countries. If something turns wrong between India and Nepal, the palpitation of the hearts of the people on both sides automatically go up. Sometimes misunderstandings develop and then the…
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Hindi Must be Declared the State Language of J& K and Ladakh
There is an almost an outcry from Jammu and Ladakh regions to declare Hindi as the State language. There is some opposition, of course, from the valley and the reason is obvious but that is totally misplaced. Hindi is compulsorily taught in all schools across all three regions. The dialects that are spoken in Jammu,…
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Devil cannot Quote Scriptures, Vinay Dube Must be Sternly Dealt with
You cannot expect the security forces, including the police, to wear the ‘rule of law’ on its sleeve to deal with such criminals, who care two hoots for the law and other human beings. Therefore, Yogi Adityanath government is fully justified in razing the house of that notorious outlaw Vinay Dube so as to nab…
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Supreme Court’s Order on Rath Yatra was an Avoidable Overreach
It is a welcome that the Supreme Court of India has reviewed its decision of 18th June wherein it banned the Jagannath Rath Yatra (chariot procession festival) at Puri, which started from today. Jagannath Rat Yatra is attached to the sentiments and faiths of millions of people, then why the permission for symbolic Yatra, as…