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Vimarsha on Transforming Centre-State Relations a talk by Shri Dhirendra Singh

Former Home Secretary Shri Dhirendra Singh delivered a talk on Transforming Centre State Relations under the Vimarsha series at VIF on July 11, 2014. The session was presided over by former Delhi Lt Governor Shri Vijai Kapoor. In his opening remar....

July 18, 2014 Vimarsh , Governance and Political Studies , Supreme Court , Centre-State Relations
Vaidik - Saeed Meeting: A Case of Self-Appointed Diplomats, Self-Serving Charlatans
Sushant Sareen

The meeting between internationally designated terrorist chieftain Hafiz Saeed and an Indian journalist (?) and political operator, Dr VP Vaidik, in Lahore has caused a veritable storm in not just political circles but also the media. Normally, no ey....

July 16, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Governance and Political Studies , Media Studies
Modi’s First Budget Session – Some Bitter Medicine and Some Sweeteners?
Dr A Surya Prakash

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Democratic Alliance will face its first big challenge when the two Houses of Parliament open for what is essentially the Budget Session after the recent Lok Sabha election. The nation’s eyes are riveted....

July 08, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
Appointment of Judges and Independence of Judiciary
Dr M N Buch (late)

Though India is a Union of States we have a judicial system which is hierarchical, from the court of first instance right up to the Supreme Court. In all legal matters competent judicial officers can pronounce judgements on both Central laws and Sta....

July 03, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
The Dreaded Emergency: How the Constitution was Mutilated
Dr A Surya Prakash

June 25 marks yet another anniversary of the Internal Emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, leading to the eclipse of democracy and 19 dreadful months of dictatorship, suspension of fundamental rights, incarceration of politici....

June 25, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
Time for an Organised, Focused and Empowered CBI
Dr M N Buch (late)

The word ‘corrupt’ is defined in the Twenty-first Century Dictionary as “morally evil, involving bribery, dishonest”. The word ‘corruption’ is defined as “the process of corrupting or condition of being corrupt, dishonesty”. In India....

June 20, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
President Pranab Mukherjee’s Vision: Rising Above Party Politics
Dr A Surya Prakash

The President, Mr Pranab Mukherjee gave the customary address to the joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament after the historic Lok Sabha election of 2014 which ended the era of fractious coalitions and resulted in a dramatic change of governme....

June 16, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
Mandate 2014: Why the BJP Won and the Congress Lost?
Dr M N Buch (late)

The 2014 elections will certainly be considered a landmark in the Indian polity because of the manner in which the two main antagonists, the Congress and the BJP, went into battle. Whereas for an actual battle, the Order of Battle formulated by the ....

June 03, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
Verdict 2014: Piercing the Veil of Secularism
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

The period 1987 – 89 was a watershed one in recent Indian political history. It was over this period that the Congress dominance ended, and a period of coalitions began. The speed of the collapse of the Congress Party from its historic peak of 400-....

May 29, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
No Leader of the Opposition was the Norm during Most Cong Regimes
Dr A Surya Prakash

Ever since the Congress Party’s crushing defeat in the recent Lok Sabha election, many acolytes of the Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress sympathisers are bemoaning the fact that the leader of this party, which has just 44 seats, cannot be designated....

May 23, 2014 Governance and Political Studies
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