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Follow Covid-19 guidelines and participate in festival of democracy, PM Modi urges Bihar voters

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged voters in Bihar to follow Covid-19 guidelines while voting

Updated on Oct 28, 2020, 9:42 AM IST

Thai protesters continue rallies, ask court to revoke order

Protesters march towards the Government House during an anti-government protest as they march in Bangkok.

Updated on Oct 21, 2020, 5:50 PM IST

Global youth losing faith in democracy: Cambridge study

Young pro-democracy activists flash three-fingered salutes while listening to the national anthem in Bangkok, Thailand.

Updated on Oct 20, 2020, 10:58 PM IST

Cambridge study shows Millennials’ dissatisfied with democracy

The study suggested that the populist challenge to mainstream, “establishment” politics could actually help improve democratic engagement by shocking moderate parties and leaders into reversing the decay.

Updated on Oct 20, 2020, 7:32 AM IST

Amnesty’s exit erodes Indian democracy

On the issue of human rights, Amnesty’s standing is far higher than that of the Government of India

Published on Oct 10, 2020, 5:26 PM IST

‘Dark day for democracy, farmers’: SAD’s Sukhbir Singh Badal after President’s nod to farm bills

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal in Gurdaspur. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) quits National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the farm bills issue.

Updated on Sep 27, 2020, 7:33 PM IST

Taapsee Pannu says asking questions for betterment of your country ‘not anti-national’, encourages dialogues to save democracy. Watch

Taapsee Pannu champions dialogues for saving democracy.

Updated on Sep 15, 2020, 12:14 PM IST

Cong members protest against ‘murder of democracy’ by BJP, forget social distancing

Congress party leaders and workers protest against the BJP government at Panchkula.

Updated on Jul 27, 2020, 8:53 PM IST

Over 60 killed in renewed violence in Sudan’s Darfur: UN

The clashes between the Masalit and other Arab tribes in the area started earlier Saturday and lasted until late Sunday, state-run SUNA news agency reported, citing unnamed sources.

Updated on Jul 27, 2020, 5:45 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi asks people to ‘protect democracy’, launches digital campaign

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched #SpeakUpForDemocracy campaign on Twitter on Sunday.

Updated on Jul 26, 2020, 11:40 AM IST

Black Lives Matter: Protest movements of marginalised groups highlight the gap in the principles and actual practice of democracy

A demonstrator holds a mobile phone as he faces police officers near Black Lives Matter Plaza as racial inequality protests continue, Washington, June 23, 2020

Published on Jun 30, 2020, 10:47 AM IST

Congress’ Milind Deora tweets another surprise. It is on Emergency

Congress leader Milind Deora has in the recent past taken a different line from the Congress, triggering speculation that he might soon jump the ship.

Updated on Jun 25, 2020, 4:15 PM IST

Paul Wallace: An Indophile who shaped scholarship on democracy

Paul Wallace, died on February 22, 2020, at the age of 89.

Updated on Feb 29, 2020, 1:14 AM IST

Dissent welcome in democracy, but not disintegration of country: V-P Naidu

Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu addressing a lecture at Aryabhatta auditorium of Ranchi university in Ranchi on Sunday.

Published on Feb 17, 2020, 4:25 AM IST

More sore with democracy, but India a bright spot: Cambridge study

Demonstrators salute and wave an Indian flag during Republic Day celebrations at the site of a protest against a new citizenship law in Ahmedabad, India.

Published on Jan 29, 2020, 11:32 PM IST

India needs to restore its image as a pluralist democracy

An anti-CAA and NRC protest, Lucknow, January 20, 2020

Published on Jan 28, 2020, 7:23 PM IST

The US Left and Indian democracy | Analysis

The abrogation of Article 370 is criticised but little concern is shown for iniquities that sheltered under the benign term, for example, the ethnic cleansing of Pandits, discrimination against Dalits, corruption, and the blight of dynastism

Updated on Jan 6, 2020, 6:29 AM IST

‘Those not wanting divisive democracy should go to North Korea’: Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy

Updated on Dec 14, 2019, 6:06 AM IST

Venkaiah Naidu for objective criticism, says dissent key to democracy

Urging the bureaucracy and the judiciary to fulfill their responsibilities, Venkaiah Naidu said both institutions should follow due processes for delivery of justice.

Updated on Dec 11, 2019, 6:59 AM IST

Chinese state media downplay pro-democracy win in Hong Kong

State-controlled media in mainland China have downplayed the victory of the pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong’s district election.

Published on Nov 26, 2019, 1:29 PM IST

HTLS 2019: The evolution of the world’s largest democracy

Voters exercise their franchise in Bihar in the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections conducted in 2019.

Updated on Nov 26, 2019, 12:33 PM IST

Stalin calls Maharashtra coup a shame for democracy, AIADMK greets new govt

DMK President MK Stalin has called the new political development in Maharashtra a murder of democracy.

Updated on Nov 23, 2019, 7:38 PM IST

China should learn about democracy from India: Dalai Lama

Chandigarh University chancellor Satnam Singh Sandhu welcoming The Dalai Lama at the university, Gharuan campus, in Punjab on Tuesday.

Published on Oct 16, 2019, 1:04 AM IST

Hitler’s rise exposes fragility of democracy

The Nazi State was not inevitable. But warning signs were not heeded

Updated on Sep 28, 2019, 8:11 PM IST

It is time to think about protecting the newspaper. Democracy is at stake | Anaylsis

The business model of news aggregation has meant the slow death of newspapers. Entailed within it is the decline of hard-nosed journalism and fearless content generation that has been the credo of the newspaper industry

Updated on Sep 26, 2019, 9:32 PM IST

‘India will stop being India if protests stop’, says Mamata Banerjee on Jadavpur University fracas

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses during the Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC) rally, in Kolkata, Monday.

Updated on Sep 23, 2019, 4:42 PM IST

Sanjay Raut warns against defections: ‘Democracy will turn into hell’

Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP, in his weekly column in party mouthpiece Saamana, said that one should be “cautious” of the new entrants as politicians today “lack character” as they “change their political masters” quickly.

Updated on Sep 16, 2019, 4:28 AM IST

The interplay between Kashmir and India’s democratic project | Analysis

The current dispensation has consistently followed the philosophy of the ends justifying the means

Updated on Sep 14, 2019, 7:35 AM IST

Hold tech companies accountable for fake news

We need a regulatory outcome parity with other industries, and tailored for the consumer Internet. The unhindered gathering of personal behavioural information, systemic monopolistic exploitation of Internet consumers, and abstention of all responsibility cannot go on

Updated on Sep 11, 2019, 11:27 AM IST

‘Subversion of democracy’: Rahul Gandhi hits out

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi blamed the government for “subversion of democracy”.

Updated on Sep 9, 2019, 12:47 AM IST

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