September 2021 | Vol. LIX No. 23 |  Regular

Lawmakers or Lawbreakers?

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia: Begin your intellectual journey!
By Nasir Hussain Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia available at tap of a finger in more than 300 languages. From 2010 onwards, Wikipedia has revolutionised the source of information....
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Legal Assistance

APCR Legal Assistance Secured Quashing of 4 FIRs against Atir from Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court quashed four of five FIRs lodged over an alleged incident of looting and arson of houses in a single compound during the northeast Delhi riots last...
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Law & Order

Criminal Cases against MPs, MLAs Can’t be Withdrawn without HC orders: SC
The state governments cannot withdraw criminal cases against sitting MPs and MLAs without prior sanctions from the respective high courts, the Supreme Court has said. On August 7, a bench...
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Kisan Movement

Karnal SDM’s ‘Crack-Heads’ of Farmers Directive Snowballs
Mega Kisan Mahapanchayat launches anti-BJP campaign By Abdul Bari Masoud Giving in to pressure from the Opposition parties and farmers’ unions for action against Karnal SDM Ayush Sinha, who issued...
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Award

A Bangladeshi Scientist among Winners of Ramon Magsaysay Award
A Bangladeshi scientist who helped develop a cheap oral vaccine against cholera, a Pakistani microfinance pioneer and a Filipino fisherman were among the winners of Asia’s equivalent to the Nobel...
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Inside India

There is an Attempt to Give Communal Colour to News: CJI
THERE IS AN ATTEMPT TO GIVE COMMUNAL COLOUR TO NEWS: CJI Web portals “only listen to powerful voices” and “write anything” against judges or institutions, the Supreme Court said in...
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Cover Story

Lawmakers or Lawbreakers?
Arshad Shaikh examines the implications of the recent report filed by the Amicus Curiae to the Supreme Court regarding the high number of pending cases against lawmakers of our country.
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Ultimate Success

Why the Qur’ān Informs Us about Other Creatures
By Sikandar Azam God is the Creator of the universe and all that is within it, animate or inanimate. Whether they are humans or jinn, earth or the sky, planets...
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The Hadith

On Finding Stray Things
It becomes binding for a man, who finds a stray thing, to take it in his charge if it is liable to perish in case it is not preserved.
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The Quran

Pharaoh’s Transgression
Pharaoh did not rule over his subjects with an even hand; instead, he divided his subjects into various groups. He gave more rights and powers to some and enslaved, crushed...
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