IANS Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP), was temporarily expelled from the House of Commons or the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament for calling an MP racist and for refusing to apologize and withdraw his comments. Wednesday, Speaker Anthony Rota kicked Singh, a turbaned Sikh who is the first visible […]
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The Rafale judgment is fundamentally flawed
Justice Markandey Katju – I find the Supreme Court verdict on the Rafale deal fundamentally flawed. Let me explain. A fundamental principle in modern democracies is that it is the people who are supreme, and the people act through their representative bodies, Parliament and (where there is a federal Constitution) the state legislatures. Early […]