By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Government’s failure to control the riots raging in Manipur and the move to bring in a uniform civil code in the country have evoked strong protests from the opposition parties not only in Kerala but also across the nation. At one stroke, the...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Prime Minster Narendra Modi, just after returning from his first State visits to the US and Egypt, met with President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. While it is standard practice that the prime minister briefs the President on foreign visits, the fact his meeting...
By Girish Linganna BrahMos Aerospace, The Indo-Russian missile maker, recently announced that they had concluded the initial design of a new generation of BrahMos-NG missiles. The export director of the missile producer has stated to Russian news agency Sputnik that the design of the forthcoming BrahMos-NG missiles has been...
By Dr. Soma Marla In the initial days of June, the Indian agriculture sector witnessed three important events. Farmers in Kurukshetra waged a two-week agitation as the state government refused to procure Sunflower seeds at the minimum support price (MSP) announced by the government. Second incident the union government...
By C.J. Atkins Fifty four years ago, on June 28, 1969, when a bar named the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village became ground zero for the modern gay rights movement, there were, of course, no corporate sponsors. No political allies in positions of power. And rather than keeping people...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Karnataka loss in May this year despite the twin strategy of BJP – high decibel election campaign focussing on polarisation of Hindu votes and harping on PM Modi’s charisma – that shocked the top brass of the party, has now finding itself into a deep...
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, East Pakistan used to receive international media attention only during its natural calamities. Major powers remained mostly fixated on the tensions and conflicts involving India and West Pakistan. Even after breaking away from Pakistan, Bangladesh had to wait patiently for nearly three decades...
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is not known for speaking rationally. This time he has faulted in the matter of raking up Uniform Civil Code. While justifying his stand, he said that the country cannot have two laws: one for Hindu and a second one for the ‘other’. By...
By Sushil Kutty Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, two states ruled by the Congress are scheduled to go polls before the year is out. Also, both with a leadership problem at the state level! Those were the similarities till a couple of days ago when the Congress high command, after years...
By P. Sudhir The outcome of the Modi visit to the United States has made one thing clear – India has become more cemented to the United States in a strategic and military relationship. Whatever the rhetoric “of the partnership between two democracies” and shared values, the compulsions for...
By Krishna Jha It was more than eight decades back, when on June 22, 1941, Hitler launched his fascist attack on Soviet Union. The onslaught was called Operation Barbarossa. Six years before the Operation Barbarossa, Georgi Dimitrov, the general secretary of the Communist International, in his famous address to...
By Tirthankar Mitra As the campaign for the panchayat elections is in full swing in West Bengal murmurs of divided opinion have arisen in BJP’s state unit over the choice of a candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha elections in the state. The polls to the Upper House are...
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: Attempting to deflect attention from his criminal indictment on charges of violating the Espionage Act, former President Donald Trump is escalating his use of anti-communist and anti-Semitic red-baiting rhetoric to smear opponents and investigators. For years, Trump has wielded accusations of left-wing radicalism against anyone...
By K Raveendran The standard definition of crony capitalism is the existence of an economic system characterised by mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials. Going by this, at least two major decisions this week are India-centric, though with linkages to domestic as well as international. The...
By K R Sudhaman There is jubilation all over in BJP circles and the Indian media after the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to United States, where he got a rousing welcome. This is no doubt a landmark bilateral visit which has laid the foundation for taking...
By Arun Srivastava Even the fragrance of the pleasant words that were bestowed upon Narendra Modi before his departure from the United States had faded, the Indian prime minister had to taste the bitter bite of American anger at some of his cabinet ministers and senior BJP leaders unleashing...
By Sushil Kutty If cars and sports utility vehicles can win general elections, then Bharat Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrasekhar Rao is already the Prime Minister! KCR, as he is called, led a convoy of 600 cars & SUVs into Maharashtra on Monday and made jittery a clutch of...
By Tirthankar Mitra If Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s detractors have often labelled her political actions to be sans rhyme or reason, she always had the last laugh. Kicking off TMC’s panchayat poll campaign from north Bengal is a case in point. This is the first time in her...