COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 25 March 2019
He said the move was not "required legally", while terming it a "political decision".
"Investigations into these killings have been ineffective for too long"
Recently, FB published an ‘Ad Library report’, a database that “includes ads related to politics and issues of national importance”, as an effort to increase “transparency”.
The party alleged that "right-wing and fanatic forces" were behind the attack.
However, in the light of upcoming elections, Gauri Lankesh’s murder can be used by both major political parties to gain political mileage.
According to official data between 2016 and 2018, 85 individuals, including Naxals, common people and police personnel, were killed in various Maoist-related incidents in Dantewada.
He said the move was not "required legally", while terming it a "political decision".
"Investigations into these killings have been ineffective for too long"
Recently, FB published an ‘Ad Library report’, a database that “includes ads related to politics and issues of national importance”, as an effort to increase “transparency”.
The party alleged that "right-wing and fanatic forces" were behind the attack.
However, in the light of upcoming elections, Gauri Lankesh’s murder can be used by both major political parties to gain political mileage.
According to official data between 2016 and 2018, 85 individuals, including Naxals, common people and police personnel, were killed in various Maoist-related incidents in Dantewada.
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Pyongyang has successfully conducted its sixth and largest nuclear bomb test on Sunday and was "addressed to none other than the U.S."
India and Myanmar today signed 11 agreements in a range of sectors, including one on maritime security cooperation, to further strengthen their multifaceted partnership.
The Editors Guild of India also demanded that the Karnataka Government acts with alacrity to bring the culprits to justice apart from instituting a judicial probe into the killing.
The assailants have not been apprehended yet but the CM said they are questioning two people who had earlier posted something against Lankesh, on Facebook.
The agency's counsel informed the bench that they had examined 26 persons, including JNU officials, staff, Najeeb's friends, colleagues and those who had any issue with him, during the investigation.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also directed the chief secretaries of every state government to file a status report giving details of the actions taken to prevent incidents of cow vigilantism.
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"I have seen it from both sides, from ministry side as well as the Governor side. You (an RBI Governor) have always been tested. And you have to establish clear parameters -- what you are willing to do and what you are not willing to do"
The prime minister, at a joint press statement with Suu Kyi, also asserted that India stands by Myanmar amid the challenges the country is facing.
Senior journalist Lankesh was shot dead on Tuesday at her residence in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Naga by some unidentified assailants at around 8-8:30 p.m.
Passengers, excited about their first trip on the much- awaited metro, were stuck till a team of the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) came to their rescue.
"This notion that, we at every corner, we have to say we are the best and there is no body else like us. Well that is not true, first."
The people from Jammu and Kashmir will be summoned in the coming days.
The Prime Minister is currently in the second leg of his two-nation visit.
During his tenure at the country's apex bank, Rajan had served both under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP governments.
On Sunday, North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile and called its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
The decision has evoked widespread criticism with former President Barack Obama calling it calling it "wrong," "self- defeating" and "cruel."
'There is no 'safe haven' for terrorists on our soil'
All the three rationalists were assassinated in a similar fashion. with the CID revealing that the weapon they were shot with was also the same.
Born in 1962, Gauri was the daughter of legendary Kannada journalist and founding editor of Kannada weekly tabloid 'Lankesh Patrike'.
'The fact that she was shot dead at her Rajarajeshwari Nagar at a busy hour on Tuesday evening only indicates how fragile law and order situation has become in Bengaluru.'
Lankesh, who had been critical of Hindutva politics, had raised her voice against it in her weekly Gauri 'Lankesh Patrike,' a Kannada tabloid.
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Lankesh was the editor of the weekly Gauri 'Lankesh Patrike'.
A new history of Jallianwala Bagh gives due emphasis on the suffocatingly hostile nationalist backcloth and the lack of pre-meditation on both sides
Nagada village in Odisha’s Jajpur is inhabited by 60 families of the primitive Juang tribe.
Kashmiri students across India felt the repercussions of Pulwama terror attack almost immediately.
NC, PDP and Congress are disappointed with decision of no simultaneous polls in J&K. But the governor’s administration seems happy enough with the status quo. Governor Satya Pal Malik, it seems, is more interested in getting himself a new Range Rover.
The story of a 52-year-old who is bitter ever since Hindustan Motors, or ‘Hind Motors’, makers of the iconic Ambassador car, “suspended work” on May 24, 2014.
Local Congressman in Mandya want late actor M.H. Ambareesh's actress-widow Sumalatha as their Lok Sabha candidate. But as her name began circulating, it was politics as usual.
The post-GST impact has wreaked havoc on small industrial units, resulting in widespread loss of business and jobs.
Former Delhi CM and state Congress chief Sheila Dikshit speaks to Outlook on alliance with AAP, Delhi-Centre tussle and Lok Sabha elections.
Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur is the proverbial food bowl, but the wrinkles on the farmer’s face cannot hide his deepening frown.
After keeping himself aloof from party activities, senior Congress leader S. Jaipal Reddy’s has joined the ‘Rafale scam’ chorus.
"BJP government is mocking the 'sacrifice' of the 855 martyrs by bringing in the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which has sparked violent protests across the Northeast."
Three young activists—Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani—had grabbed a fair bit of spotlight before, during and after the Gujarat assembly polls over a year ago.
Mangalore, and coastal Karnataka, is a BJP stronghold. Over the past three decades, dominant communities such as the Bunts have largely shifted to the BJP.
