The recent legislative assembly elections in states like Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan show that giving a free hand to powerful local leaders pays handsome dividends. Leadership changes during the five year tenure of a government should be eschewed, save exceptional reasons. In states where the ...
When in 1944 the governors of Punjab and Bengal urged such a move on the Viceroy, Wavell ignored them, pressing ahead instead with his own plan for an all-India conference at Simla. The result was to confirm, as never before in the eyes of leading Muslims in the majority provinces, the...
New Delhi, March 24, 2024:With less than a month to go for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress released its fourth list of 45 candidates on Saturday. Some of the big names on the list are former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh, Karti Chi...
No woman representation from Kerala in 2024 Lok Sabha Trends show UDF wave:Shafi Parambil and MK Raghavan among leading candidates Legal action against spreaders of fake news during vote counting, says District Collector EXTENSION OF SERVICE OF WEEKLY SUPERFAST SPECIALS Kerala pensioners to stage ...
No woman representation from Kerala in 2024 Lok Sabha Trends show UDF wave:Shafi Parambil and MK Raghavan among leading candidates Legal action against spreaders of fake news during vote counting, says District Collector EXTENSION OF SERVICE OF WEEKLY SUPERFAST SPECIALS Kerala pensioners to stage ...
(Punjab) that April. Many of the acts ofcivil disobediencethat followed wereimplementedthrough the All India Congress Committee, formed in 1929, which advocated avoiding taxes as a protest against British rule. Notable in that regard was theSalt Marchin 1930 led by Gandhi. Another wing of the ...
precipitated by the protest over the perceived feebleness of the constitutional reforms enacted in early 1919 (Rowlatt Acts) and Britain’s manner of carrying them out, as well as by the widespread outrage among Indians in response to the massacre of civilians in Amritsar (Punjab) that April....
The shooting was followed by the proclamation ofmartial lawin Punjab that included public floggings and other humiliations. Indian outrage grew as news of the shooting and subsequent British actions spread throughout the subcontinent. The Bengali poet and Nobel laureateRabindranath Tagorerenounced the kn...
Several instances of state emergency have been seen over the years, the first instance being in the state of Punjab in 1951. The president can proclaim a financial emergency in the event of a threat to the country’s financial stability. This lasts for two months but can continue indefinitely...