GANDHIJI’S CONCEPT OF LAW
ABSTRACT Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India, died January 30, 1948, Delhi), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian lawyer, nationalist, community leader, and scholar who has become the founding father of the people against India’s British rule. As being such, they began to be regarded as his country’s father. Gandhi is widely known for his peaceful resistance doctrine. Gandhiji always wanted to provide services to the community. His theory included the approach towards obedience towards to law. He has given lot of writings on how law is important for the change in society. In this article the concept of equity has been discussed which fascinates him a lot, his…
Bioterrorism
Introduction: Bioterrorism is a planned and organized use of pathogenic strains of microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses or their toxins to spread life-threatening pathogens on a massive scale to devastate the population of the area. People have described the next hundred years as the ‘century of biology.’ Incredibly rapid and dramatic changes in genetic modifications in biomolecular engineering and strengthened bio-production technologies may, however, make it easier for terrorists to overcome the barriers that have hindered the procurement of bio agents in the past. The danger of biological warfare has attracted the attention of Indian defense and medical experts for a long time. There have been a few episodes of…
Cracking the Code: why we need a UCC?
No discussion on the original vision for the Indian state can be addressed without grasping the key principle of secularism and understanding the context in which the civil code was designed. Looking back seven decades to the constitutional moment, the constituent assembly was confronted with a vital question in an already deeply divided society; one that asked how an equilibrium could be reached between establishing legal uniformity whilst accounting for different religious practices. To prevent the debate around the civil code from becoming an inhibition to forming the Republic, the decision was postponed to a time in the future when the institutions and establishments of a potentially more united India…
ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN INDIA- ROLE OF FOSSIL FUELS IN THE NEXT TWO DECADES
The issue of the correct energy mix most suitable for our country has been a subject of serious consideration with many government bodies, departments and even many think tanks in the country. Niti Aayog in the draft energy policy has very aptly stated ”the world is moving away from overwhelming dependence on fossil fuel, and within the fossil fuels, away from coal and oil in favour of gas. Against an 88% total share of fossil fuels globally in the primary energy mix in the year 2005, the same fell to 86% in the year 2015. The share of oil has in particular fallen from 36% to 33%, while that of…
Perform to survive: Why defence production should be corporatised
Lt. Gen K J Singh, PVSM, AVSM(Bar) Indian Army Officer(Retd.) & GCTC Executive Board Member While defence forces are combating People’s Liberation Army (PLA), in most challenging terrain and hostile weather, its oldest component Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) had decided to go on strike from October 12, at most inappropriate time. Mercifully, strike by 82,000 strong workforce, spread over 41 factories, world’s largest government operated production organisation has been deferred. This so called, ‘Fourth Arm of Defence’ or ‘Force Behind the Armed Forces’ has not only failed to live up to expectations of Armed Forces, raison d’etre, for its very existence but has been insensitive to its genuine…
Smart Policy by PM Modi will frustrate PLA designs on border
Madhav Das Nalapat Editorial Director, ITV NEW DELHI: Neither the top tier of the Chinese Communist Party (which elevated him in 2012 to the post of CCP General Secretary over the claims of Li Keqiang), nor the international community correctly understood the difference between Xi Jinping and his party peers. Before taking over the top job in China, Xi had been content to walk in the shadow of his elders. The anti-corruption campaigns that he launched prior to his appointment in 2012 had netted only small fish, or those few in the middle echelons who had fallen out of favour with higher echelons in the CCP. There…
Team Biden may yet re-elect Donald Trump
Madhav Das Nalapat Editorial Director, ITV Donald Trump is seeking to portray Joe Biden as a secret follower of the principles of the US Congressional members known as the Squad. After the 2018 US Congressional races, four young women banded together as the “Squad”. All four meet Donald J. Trump’s definition of those below the poverty line, which in his view is any citizen with assets below a million dollars. Of the four, the disappointment for liberals has been Ilhan Omar, a backer of Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan and with a neo-Wahhabi philosophy far from the world view of Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both of…
Modi 2.0 moving towards 21st century methods and mindset
Madhav Das Nalapat Editorial Director, ITV Throughout the closing months of 2015 going into most of the next year, suggestions were made from the Republican side that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet Donald J. Trump during one of the former’s visits to the US. Such a meeting never took place, and in not meeting the Republican nominee while he was on the campaign trail, Abe was not alone. Japan regards the alliance with the US as the cornerstone of its foreign and security policy, and yet never once did Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet Trump. That is until 8 November 2016, when soon afterwards he rushed to…
Use of military in disputes causing economic shock in China
Madhav Das Nalapat Editorial Director, ITV New Delhi: The founder of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, was clear that the (Chinese Communist) Party controlled the gun (i.e. the armed forces). Over the past 16 years, this dictum seems to have steadily been reversed, with the CCP more and more adopting policies favoured by the PLA rather than the other way around. The consequence of the adoption of the short-term and aggressive stance favoured by the PLA generals towards ASEAN, India, Taiwan and even the US has resulted in a coming together of these countries in the face of such behaviour by China. The country was…
China for Biden, Russia for Trump, India undecided
Madhav Das Nalapat Editorial Director, ITV November 3, 2020 is when US citizens will either elect President Donald J. Trump to a second term or give the baton to Joe Biden. Both have strong Vice-Presidential candidates in their corner. Mike Pence has refused to take the bait thrown relentlessly at him to “become independent of Trump” and distance himself from the individual who is his only boss, now that the politician from Indiana was elected Vice-President of the US on 8 November 2016. Those who know Pence say that he is an individual who has clear views on the challenges facing the US, both internally and from…
