AN unprecedented 146 opposition members of parliament of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been suspended for the rest of the winter session.  Apart from the ‘loyal’ opposition MPs belonging to parties like the BJD, YSRCP and AIADMK, there will be no opposition MPs left in either house by December 22.It is important to recall why these suspensions took place at all.

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE Supreme Court judgment on the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories is an egregious example of the constitutional court capitulating to the misuse of powers by the executive.  Four years after the event, the three concurrent judgments of the five-member constitution bench, headed by the chief justice of India, have larger and long

THE 17-day long trauma of the 41 mostly migrant workers trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel in Silkyara, Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand state, is finally over. It has taken days of efforts by multiple agencies, public and private companies, foreign experts, engineers from the army, other workers, a battery of large and complex machines flown in by the air force from different parts of the country, and many ad hoc decisions and different methods of clearing the over 60 metres of debris blocking the tunnel, to finally effect the rescue.

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×IT has become a crime in New India to observe Children’s Day by remembering the Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.  This is what happened on November 14 in Mumbai when a few score people, including minor girls, held a silent prayer in Juhu beach. 17 of them were arrested by the police and kept in the police station till the evening. All of them belong to the minority community.

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×ONE of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them.According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be given assent by the governor in order to become law.