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The Indian government's Central Bureau of Communication faces allegations of spending millions on advertisements mirroring BJP election slogans, raising questions about misuse of public funds and electoral fairness.
The debate on draconian laws has picked up steam with human rights lawyers and activists claiming that the new penal code provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 on terror charges, bail provisions, police custody and powers of search and seizure need to have wider consultations before they become a law.
A group of esteemed academicians affiliated with the NCERT books has expressed their frustration and demanded the removal of their names from the textbooks, citing the jeopardizing of their collective creative effort. This comes shortly after political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar
The 33 academicians who have also asked NCERT to drop their names from political science textbooks include Kanti Prasad Bajpai, the former JNU professor who currently serves as the vice dean at National University Singapore; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the former vice-chancellor of Ashoka University; Rajeev Bhargava among others.
Days after political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar wrote to the NCERT, asking their names to be dropped from textbooks, 33 academicians, who were part of the Textbook Development Committee (TDC), have written to the council, saying their collective creative effort is in jeopardy.