Tag: Emergency
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Alienation, migration and loneliness in Nirmal Verma’s writings
Renowned Hindi author Nirmal Verma’s writings often deal with themes such as alienation, migration and historical trauma. He was not only one of the pioneers of the ‘Nayi Kahani movement’, but also a unique figure among his contemporaries, as he’d mastered over three languages. On his 90th birth anniversary, Sahapedia.org looks at the life and works of the iconic writer.
April 3, 2019 -
Pentagon authorises $1 billion to build Trump’s US-Mexico border wall
Donald Trump had called for using $5.7 billion in taxpayer money to construct more than 200 miles of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
March 26, 2019 -
16 states file lawsuit to stop Trump’s national emergency declaration
The National Emergencies Act allows the President to declare a national emergency and unlock a stash of funds by invoking certain statutory authority.
February 19, 2019 -
Donald Trump defends emergency move over Mexico wall as California decides to sue him
California Governor Gavin Newsom had announced plans to sue the Trump administration after the President's move for a national emergency to access funds for building the wall.
February 16, 2019 -
Donald Trump declares Emergency to fund Mexico border wall
Trump backed away from his threat to again shut down the government if the legislature did not vote $5.7 billion for the border wall
February 15, 2019 -
An emergency we have never faced
Despite occasional cries from interested quarters that the country faces a financial emergency, the Constitutional provision under Article 360 has remained a dead letter
February 14, 2019 -
Singular firebrand
When he was appointed defence minister there were apprehensions that he would be at constant loggerheads with the strait-laced convention-bound military establishment.
January 31, 2019 -
Chronicles we mustn’t forget
The country is now facing an undeclared state of emergency with students being arrested under false charges of sedition, mob lynchings in the name of the cow, the pressure on the media, and the killing of rationalists.
January 21, 2019 -
Donald Trump not declaring emergency ‘right now’
US President Donald Trump has said that he has no immediate plans to resort to a national-emergency declaration to build a wall on the border with Mexico, the issue behind a partial government shutdown now in its 21st day.
January 12, 2019 -
Retired Justice CS Dharmadhikari of Emergency fame passes away
Justice Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, who delivered a landmark verdict during the Emergency on human rights, died at a private hospital following a brief illness
January 3, 2019 -
Opposition leader Solih wins Maldives presidential poll; India hails victory
Results released by the Elections Commission in Maldives early Monday morning showed Solih had secured 58.3 per cent of the popular vote.
September 24, 2018 -
Cult promotion
Among the many excesses of the Emergency for which Indira Gandhi paid a price was an overdose of personality projection, perhaps best articulated by the super-smart assertion of a figurehead of a party president who tried selling the line “Indira is India”. To be fair to politicians, it would be difficult to furnish evidence of …
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August 29, 2018 -
Kuldip Nayar: Scribe of a rare tribe
He served as the Indian High Commissioner in the UK in the 1990s and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1997
August 23, 2018 -
Kuldip Nayar, former resident editor with The Statesman, passes away at 95
Kuldip Nayar was among the journalists who had staunchly opposed Emergency, imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. He had been jailed under MISA during the time
August 23, 2018 -
Sarkaria asks officials to tackle situation during heavy rains
In the wake of the monsoon season, the Punjab Water Resources minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria on Thursday directed the officials of his department to be fully prepared to deal with any emergency like situation due to heavy rains. Sarkaria made it clear that all the officers and employees of the department would monitor the situation …
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June 29, 2018 -
Bengal Governor Tripathi terms Emergency as ‘the dark hour’
Recalling the Emergency clamped by Indira Gandhi, Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Tuesday described it as “the dark hour.” He recalled his own experiences as a lawyer in Allahabad High Court when he had to file several writ petitions in the Allahabad High Court against the detentions and proposed detentions. The Emergency, Mr Tripathi’s …
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June 27, 2018 -
Ruckus in MP House over Emergency
The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh came under a scathing attack from the Opposition Congress in the state Assembly on Tuesday during a discussion on the Emergency imposed in 1975 and also from one of its own BJP woman MLAs who accused a senior minister of threatening her family members. As soon as the proceedings …
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June 27, 2018