End Shadows Over Democracy

As political ripostes go, Shah’s interventions were clever, well-aimed and rhetorically effective. Gandhi, by contrast, had little new to add beyond...

yesterday 10

Fpj Editorial

Claims And Counter-Claims

After his release, Savarkar never again raised his voice against British rule. His subsequent ideological positions—particularly his advocacy of...

yesterday 10

Fpj Editorial

Justice At Crossroads In Kochi

The court faulted the prosecution for failing to establish conspiracy and instigation against Dileep beyond reasonable doubt. Yet, it held that the...

thursday 7

Fpj Editorial

Shrinking Parliament, Shrinking Debates

Elections demand enormous expenditure. Maintaining the Parliament Secretariat, paying salaries and perks to members, and extending pensions to retired...

thursday 10

Fpj Editorial

An Inferno Foretold

There is no reason to expect that the script will be different in the fire that occurred in Goa last week, in a nightclub of a popular and...

10.12.2025 9

Fpj Editorial

Cheetahs On The Road To Nowhere

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be dismayed at the trend. He marked International Cheetah Day, just a day before the first cub’s death, with the...

10.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Stopping Acid Attacks

Shocked at the slow pace at which the horrific crime predominantly affecting women is dealt with, a two-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice of...

09.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Putin Visit: A Tough Balancing Act

For Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s airport welcome, with a warm hug and a handshake, and the ride with the PM to his residence for a private...

09.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Indigo Crisis: Turbulence In The Air

IndiGo must take the blame for this state of affairs, as it was well aware that the new Flight Duty Time Limitation rules (FDTL) mandated by the civil...

07.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Justice For Hany, At Last!

Babu was in prison for five years and seven months, which the HC division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and RR Bhonsale termed an infringement of the...

07.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

King Kohli Still Reigns

Public memory is short. It was in fact just six weeks back in Adelaide that Sharma and Kohli were involved in an unbeaten century stand in the third...

06.12.2025 4

Fpj Editorial

Guiding Light: The Unapologetic Hindu

These achievements, along with political developments like the process to identify Indian citizens as voters, have been received enthusiastically by...

06.12.2025 8

Fpj Editorial

Justice Restores Teachers’ Dignity

The judgement fell like a thunderbolt. Soon after, the judge resigned from the Bench, contested elections on a BJP ticket, and entered Parliament. In...

06.12.2025 4

Fpj Editorial

A Dog At Democracy’s Door

For the first time in living memory, a member of the canine species came close to enjoying parliamentary privilege, albeit only in the premises and...

05.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

No Saathi For Govt On Sanchar

While the intention, as the government has been at pains to explain, is to benefit the public at large—IMEI verification, blocking or blacklisting...

05.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Integrity Crucial For SIR

The numbers alone are staggering. Revising and verifying over 500 million entries on electoral rolls cannot be done in a hurry without compromising...

03.12.2025 9

Fpj Editorial

Sadhugram At The Cost Of Nature

The Tapovan forest, along the Godavari River, is not only the heartbeat of the rapidly expanding city of Nashik but also carries the ancient...

03.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Trump: Contradictions In Motion

Maduro’s continuance in office is certainly untenable. But the larger question remains: what right does the United States have to blockade an entire...

02.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Temporary Truce In Karnataka

Karnataka is among the three states where the Congress is still in power, a far cry from its pan-India dominance of earlier times, and it is important...

02.12.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Online Regulation Without Censorship

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, while hearing a batch of cases that cover offensive content, expressed surprise that anyone could start a YouTube...

30.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

42 Years On, Wounds Of Nellie Resurface

The Assam government appointed the Tiwary Commission, headed by Justice Tribhuvan Prasad Tiwary, retired judge of the Gauhati High Court, under the...

30.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Nitish, Perform Or Perish

The JD(U) won 85 seats—almost double its previous tally—with a strike rate comparable to the BJP’s. When the BJP had conceded the chief...

25.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Rules Are Key To Labour Codes

Making big changes, the Codes on Wages, Industrial Relations, Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions seek to lend...

25.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Governors Need A Code Of Conduct

The ruling overturns the earlier two-judge decision in the Tamil Nadu case, which had held that prolonged inaction by a governor amounted to “deemed...

23.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Juvenile Justice Faces Roadblocks

The aim to decentralise the juvenile justice system has backfired, as children continue to languish in captivity like undertrial prisoners in the...

23.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Another Decisive Blow To Red Terror

Hidma, the elusive CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member, was said to have been behind 26 of the deadliest Naxal attacks, including the Dantewada...

21.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Railways Must Act Responsibly

The ill-fated Shravan Gupta, 23, died in May 2013 when he was headed to Maihar but boarded a wrong train and attempted to alight it while it was in...

21.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

When Faith Meets Tragedy

What should have been a time of fulfilment and spiritual serenity turned, in a matter of minutes, into a scene of unimaginable devastation. Saudi...

20.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Hasina Verdicts Tests India

The verdict, delivered by the International Crimes Tribunal after its provisions were controversially amended by the current dispensation, has...

20.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Greening Nepal’s Election Campaign

The major elements of the code include the use of electric vehicles in place of conventional ones, prioritising digital campaigning, the use of...

19.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Menstrual Leave Not Anti-Feminist

While the policy leaves out, inexplicably and controversially, millions of women working in the informal sector—often with fewer facilities, such as...

19.11.2025 20

Fpj Editorial

A Mandate Too Clear To Misread

When the state recorded a high voter turnout, many analysts rushed to conclude that the figure reflected a deep anti-incumbency mood. However, the...

16.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

India’s 10/11, A Wake-Up Call

The horrific images of mangled vehicles and terrified bystanders have rekindled painful memories of an era when serial blasts were grimly routine.

13.11.2025 8

Fpj Editorial

Women’s Quota Deferred, Justice Denied

The government’s explanation is that the law will come into force only after the next census and the subsequent delimitation of constituencies.

13.11.2025 8

Fpj Editorial

Brief Winter Session Irks Opposition

Recent Parliament sittings have been stormy, marked by disruptions and adjournments, with the Opposition benches charging the government with failing...

11.11.2025 9

Fpj Editorial

Turkey’s Bold, Futile Gesture

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, facing growing domestic discontent and criticism over his own human rights record, is adept at using...

11.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Red Rules Once Again In JNU

The Left’s convincing victory can be attributed to the fact that it fought on a united platform, unlike in the previous election. The victory of the...

10.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Mighty Pawars In Land Scam

The first pertains to about 40 acres of prime land in Mundhwa, off the posh Koregaon Park, earmarked for the use of the Scheduled Caste Mahar...

10.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

An Urgent Need For POCSO Reforms

A Bench comprising Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan has issued notices to the Centre and the states, opening a much-needed debate on how to...

07.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Rich vs Poor: The Gap Widens

The term “emergency level” is no exaggeration because inequality, in essence, has a severe negative impact socially, economically, politically and...

07.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Women In Blue Script History

This is not to say other women’s sports in India have lagged behind. In fact, since the glory days of PT Usha in athletics in the 1980s, our...

05.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

A Failed Attempt At Making Rain

Even IIT-Kanpur, with whom the Delhi government collaborated on the experiment, stated that cloud seeding cannot be a long-term answer to Delhi’s...

05.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Rules Must For Safe Pilgrimage

A small town in Andhra Pradesh, Kasibugga, is the latest to witness one, in which at least nine pilgrims, eight women and a teen, died tragically.

04.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Powai Hostage Case: Audition For A Real-Life Horror

As is known by now, Arya took 17 children and two adult hostages in a studio in Powai, a posh suburb of Mumbai, this Thursday and threatened them harm...

04.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Tossing The Problem Back

Videos of vehicles tipping the mixed trash back in front of houses may send out the message effectively, but the next act in this play is bound to put...

02.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Hope: The Missing Link In Justice System

The court is not rewriting the law; it is exposing a glaring void in it. Under the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita (BNS), the police must file a chargesheet...

02.11.2025 10

Fpj Editorial

Supreme Court Cracks Whip On States

The other states and Union Territories have been found wanting, forcing the apex court to summon their chief secretaries on November 3 to explain...

30.10.2025 10

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SIR Still Sparks Controversy

The process, which involves verification and revalidation of voters’ credentials, has already begun in these states.

30.10.2025 10

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India's AI Labelling Push: A Crucial Step Toward Accountability In The Digital Age

India plans to mandate labelling of AI-generated content to curb misinformation and protect public trust. The proposal, part of IT Rules amendments,...

29.10.2025 20

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Legends' Last Dance: Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli Leave Australia With A Century Of Memories

In what was likely their final match in Australia, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli turned a dead rubber into a memorable spectacle at the SCG. Chasing...

29.10.2025 10

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