By Sushil Kutty So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the first eight years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India witnessed more than double the number of bank frauds. The first half of the ninth year, number of frauds rose even more sharply compared to the corresponding months of the eighth year. Now in...
By K Raveendran The heavy impact of the disclosures made by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about alleged armtwisting by the Modi government to force the microblogging giant to block criticism of the government in connection with the farmers agitation has overshadowed the disastrous data leak relating to Covid...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: June 12 proved to be a day of two major calamities for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan. One calamity was the huge fire which caused havoc in many floors of Satpura Bhawan. Satpura Bhawan is a multi story building which houses...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Habits die hard. The Congress party in Kerala does not seem to have learnt any lessons from the spectacular victory its counterpart in neighbouring Karnataka scored in the recently-held Assembly elections in that State. What is worse is that group politics in the Kerala unit...
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress finds itself between a rock and a hard place in fielding panchayat election candidates in a vast swathe of Junglemahal in West Bengal inhabited by Kudmis, the Left Front has put up candidates from this community in Purulia district for...
By Girish Linganna The geopolitical rivals United States of America, China, and Russia, were among the nations that took part in naval drills, Multilateral Naval Exercise KOMODO (MNEK), held in the waters off the coast of Indonesia to improve their ability to work together during a humanitarian crisis. From...
By Dr Arun Mitra The news item published in the media on 12th June 2023 that an NGO affiliated with the RSS women’s wing, the ‘Rashtriya Sevika Samiti’ has launched a documentary and guidance titled “Garbha Sanskar” to help the women bear customized “Cultured and Patriotic Children” is highly...
By Harihar Swarup Ayo Gorkhali (The Gorkhas are upon you), is quite a menacing war cry on the battlefield. The Gorkhas have impressed one and all with their courage and fighting spirit. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw paid them the ultimate compliment: “If a man says he is not afraid...
By Kalyani Shankar Former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi was many things to many people. He was ‘Thalaivar” to his cadres, a wily politician to his opponents and a visionary to his admirers. His autobiography ‘Nenjukku Neethi ‘ shows his life and struggle. Karunanidhi is among the half-a-dozen...