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The Supreme Court on Friday said it will protect the constitutional rights of petitioners and intervene at an “appropriate time” even as it cautioned against the “spreading” of the controversy triggered by the hijab ban in Karnataka classrooms to a “national level”. “Do not spread things to a larger level. We are watching what is happening there. You have to think whether it is necessary to bring it to a national level. If there is something wrong, we will protect your constitutional rights. We are also concerned. Let us see... at the appropriate time, we will interfere,” Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana addressed senior advocate Devadut Kamat, appearing for some students. Mr. Kamat was orally mentioning an appeal against an “interim order” of the Karnataka High Court on Thursday in petitions challenging the hijab ban in classrooms. “The High Court has indicated that it would pass an interim order that none of the students should wear anything which would disclose their...

  Calling for justice for the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai (2008) and the Pathankot airbase attack (2016) for the first time since the group was formed, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. said the Quad was already cooperating on sharing intelligence on threats in the Indo-Pacific region. The group of Ministers, who held their fourth Quad Ministerial meeting in Melbourne on Friday, also resolved to speed up delivery of more than a billion COVID-19 vaccines to be manufactured in India, to hold a special meet on climate change this year, and to step up efforts to ensure maritime security in the region. “We call on all countries to ensure that territory under their control is not used to launch terror attacks and to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of such attacks,” said a joint statement issued at the end of talks between the Foreign Ministers. “We reiterate our condemnation of terrorist attacks in India, including 26/11 Mumbai...

West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday rejected a petition by a BJP legislator  seeking disqualification of Mukul Roy on the grounds that he defected to the Trinamool Congress from the BJP. Mr. Roy, who contested and won from Krishangar Uttar on a BJP ticket switched sides and joined the Trinamool a month after the Assembly election.  He was appointed chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee of the State Assembly, a post usually reserved for a member of the Opposition benches.  BJP MLA Ambika Roy had approached the Speaker seeking Mr. Mukul’s disqualification. Later Mr. Ambika approached the Supreme Court and alleged inordinate delays. The court directed the Speaker to take a decision. The Speaker told reporters that the petitioner had not been able to put the required “quality and weight of the evidence”. The Speaker said in the facts and circumstances of the case and in law, he felt that the petitioner had not been able to prove the c...

  India’s industrial recovery slowed sharply in December, with output growing just 0.4% year-on-year, and manufacturing activity contracting 0.1%, as per official estimates for the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). Electricity output grew 2.8%, while mining activity rose 2.6%. The IIP data also shows capital goods output shrank 4.6% in December while consumer durables and consumer non-durables saw output shrink 2.7% and 0.6%, respectively. Consumer durables contracted for the fourth straight month. Growth in other use-based segments was marginal and couldn’t lift the overall industrial output trend, with primary goods output rising 2.8%, infrastructure and construction goods growing 1.7% and intermediate goods seeing a mere 0.3% uptick. Industrial output had grown a mere 1.34% in November as per revised data from the National Statistical Office (NSO). The NSO also revised upwards IIP numbers for September and October 2021, to 4.35% from 3.1% and to 4.01% from 3....

Cyber attacks may be a relatively new phenomenon, but in a short time frame have come to be assessed as dangerous as terrorism. The world was possibly made aware of the danger and threat posed by cyber weapons with the advent of the Stuxnet Worm in 2010, which resulted in large-scale damage to Iran’s centrifuge capabilities. Two years later, in 2012, a bank of computers belonging to the Saudi    Aramco Oil Company were targeted, reportedly by Iranian operatives, employing malware that wiped out data on 30,000 computers. A few weeks later, Iran was again believed to have been behind a targeted attack on the Qatari natural gas company, RasGas. The string of instances appear to have provoked then United States Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, to utter the warning that the world had to prepare for a kind of ‘cyber Pearl Harbour’, highlighting a new era of potential vulnerabilities. Static response In the decade that followed, and while preparing for a ‘potential Pearl...

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 Climate change is one of the defining challenges of this century. Without a global effort to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, average global temperatures are likely to exceed 2°C even with current policies in place. While many developing countries made net-zero pledges at COP26, they face enormous challenges in their attempts to grow in a climate-constrained world. In India, there is high youth unemployment and hunger for substantial investments in hard infrastructure to industrialise and urbanise. Unlike the energy-intensive growth trajectories of the industrialised world, India’s economic growth in the last three decades, led by growth in the services sector, has come at a significantly lower emissions footprint. But in the coming decades, India will have to move to an investment-led and manufacturing-intensive growth model. Can India do this with a low emissions footprint? A green industrialisation strategy While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announce...