Page 5 - Emergency

Australia state declares emergency over Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney

An Australian state government on Friday declared an emergency due to a Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney

Japan to declare coronavirus emergency lasting through Olympics Games

Japan is set to place Tokyo under a state of emergency that would last through the Olympics, fearing an ongoing Covid-19 surge will multiply during the Games

New York to end state of emergency for Covid-19: Guv Andrew Cuomo

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that the state will end the statewide disaster emergency on Thursday thanks to substantial progress made in combating the Covid-19 pandemic

Et tu Ashoka?

A pioneer in liberal education takes a hard knock

Emergency was a mistake says Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Kaushik Basu

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said what happened during that period was "wrong", but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario

After 2014, opposition fighting battle for India, not for power: Rahul

Gandhi said the Congress party has to open itself to the people and submit itself to them, bringing together the resistance against the Modi government

The gyroscope of corporate governance

Lessons from political governance are instructive even for corporations

Of harmless humour & manufactured anger

The row over Tandav and the arrest of Munawar Faruqui are straight out of the political playbook successfully mastered by Muslim fundamentalists

Malaysia emergency suspends parliament for first time since 1969

The emergency declared on Tuesday puts off any risk of an election for Muhyiddin

Annus Horribilis: It wasn't just Covid that made 2020 one of the worst years

The food crisis of the 1960s gave birth to the Green Revolution, and out of 1970s' stagnation was born the first, weak impulses for economic reform. T N Ninan wonders what good will come out of 2020

Emergency considered blackest era in Indian democracy: Supreme Court

Holding lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt of court through a tweet in June, SC pointed out that the Emergency period is considered the blackest in the history of Indian democracy.

Ram Madhav takes dig at Rahul; says Emergency will never come back

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said leaders whose grandparents were responsible for imposing Emergency are trying to misguide people by saying that a "mini emergency" like situation exists

'Protecting secular, democratic fabric as important as defending borders'

On the 45th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency, former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal said 'safeguarding secular and democratic fabric of the country is as important as defending its borders'

This is no Emergency

By looking for an Emergency in our times, we forget to notice that the first Republic inaugurated with the Constitution of India is already over

India won't forget sacrifice of those who fought for democracy during Emergency: Modi

Former prime minister Indira Gandhi had imposed the Emergency in the country on June 25, 1975

Lockdown not akin to Emergency, default bail an indefeasible right: SC

Terming its judgment in the ADM Jabalpur case during the Emergency as "retrograde", the top court said that right to life and liberty cannot be taken away without a due process of law

Rohinton Mistry's 1995 novel captured the grand tragedies of Emergency

A Fine Balance is also a ludicrous sketch of a nation, its grand tragedies and political misadventures, specifically during the Emergency of 1975, which was declared 45 years ago on June 25

Coronavirus brings focus on division of power between the Centre and states

Experts stress the need for an over-arching central law to deal with epidemics

Living with the known devil

It's the capacity of our poor and most vulnerable fellow citizens to accept adversity and struggle on

Gyan Prakash's book explains how the Emergency was allowed to happen

It is odd to find Narendra Modi's 2014 victory on page three of a book about the Emergency. But Prakash makes it work