AAP dissident leader Prashant Bhushan on Monday hit back at the party leadership over the show-cause notice issued to him by the National Disciplinary Committee (NDC), accusing its members Pankaj Gupta of accepting donations from dubious companies and Ashish Khetan of doing a “paid news” story, favouring a company. In his response to the notice…
A 71-year-old veteran Chinese journalist, known for her hard-hitting reports on elite politics, was on Friday sentenced to seven years in jail for revealing state secrets, in what is seen as a crackdown on government critics. Gao Yu, one of China’s most prominent journalists well known for her articles critical of government leaders, was handed…
The Supreme Court has reserved its verdict in a very old case pertaining to poetic freedom. The subject is most intriguing as it involves very large principles governing freedom of speech. The obiter dicta point the way to which direction the judges intended to take. As the case also involves the underlying principles of Article…
India celebrated the recent ruling of Supreme Court to upheld the freedom of expression on internet. But, a pertinent question arises here whether the unrestrained freedom can be construed as a license for a section of male to bully girls as well as women by posting obscene pictures along with vulgar comments in the social…
A 71-year-old veteran Chinese journalist, known for her hard-hitting reports on elite ruling Communist Party leaders, was today sentenced to seven years in jail for leaking to a foreign website a secret party circular banning press freedom and democracy. Gao Yu, one of China’s most prominent journalists well known for her articles critical of government…
Remember Barack Obama’s speech on religious freedom at Delhi’s Siri Fort in January? That speech was widely seen by BJP-baiters as a lecture to the current government that is easily tarred with the brush of anti-minorityism based on the aggressive statements of some Sangh parivar loudmouths. “Nowhere is it going to be more necessary to…
The Supreme court on Friday stayed proceedings against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in two defamation cases, one filed by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari and the other by a lawyer. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice PC Pant has also agreed to hear Kejriwal’s plea for decriminalizing defamation law. Facing repeated court appearances…
Bilkulonline.com, Ahmedabad, April 17: Mufti Abdul Qayyum, an accused in the 2002 Akshardham temple attack case who was acquitted by the Supreme Court last year, won’t be able to tell his story. Qayyum had planned to release a book on the 11 years he spent behind the bars for a crime he never committed, at…
Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan says he has an ongoing struggle against the Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to achieve creative freedom. The 60-year-old actor, whose 2013 film “Vishwaroopam” was initially banned in Tamil Nadu for 15 days and saw a release only after muting certain scenes, has always voiced his reservations about the censor…
Mahatma Gandhi was obviously a unique figure in India’s history. But it now turns out that he is in a class of his own even in the eyes of the law. Justice might be blind and everyone, high or low, technically equal before it, but there is apparently the Mahatma Exception. A two-judge bench of…