By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: Donald Trump, on Saturday morning, March 18, posted a message on his social media platform Truth Social that “leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States (himself) will be arrested on Tuesday next week”. The imminent arrest would be in connection to a...
By Anjan Roy US policy-makers quick move to rescue the beleaguered Silicon Valley Bank is an object lesson in what can be described as “real economics” in parallel to real-politic. Real-politic is the art of playing politics in realistic manner. Real economics is similarly handling of economic issue realistically....
By Sushil Kutty All retired judges currently alive and kicking should ask Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to name the ”few retired judges” who are part of the “anti-India gang” that is undermining the Indian judiciary by asking it to play the role of the Opposition. The Law Minister...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite the Constitution (Seventy-Third Amendment Act. 1992, which came into force w.e.f April 24, 1993, inserted Part IX in the Constitution of India and accorded Panchayats a Constitutional status as institutions of local self-governance for rural India, the Centre and States continue to interfere in...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress Party is facing its biggest dilemma in Uttar Pradesh on whether to revive organisation and boost morale of party leaders and workers to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls solo or leave the space for Samajwadi Party and its alliance. Much significance is being attached...
By Arun Srivastava A Sanskrit adage “vinas kale viprit buddhi” has once again made its incredible appearance in the political circles. It was in 1975 Jayprakash Narayan had used it for Indira Gandhi when she instead of taking recourse to debate and discussion and find out the solution to...
By Arun Srivastava Home minister Amit Shah’s setting the condition at the India Today conclave on March 17 that Rahul Gandhi must apologise for his UK remarks before he can be allowed to defend them in Parliament, is just like confessing the crime which the person has not committed...
By Sushil Kutty What is happening in Telangana? After Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha declined to entertain the Enforcement Directorate’s invitation to drop by for another round of questioning in the Delhi Excise Policy case, there’s not much been heard of, and from the Bharat Rashtra...
By Harihar Swarup Democracy in India is a “global public good”. Rahul Gandhi added as an afterthought. It can’t fail. Speaking in British Parliament to a packed hall with politicians, diaspora leaders, students and academic, he’d just outlined why India’s democratic structures are under threat. From the Hindu right’s...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Key workers are essential for societies to function, but India has been repeatedly pointed out by international reports as a county that does not care for its key workers as in the case of ASHAs, or even does not recognize as the key workers as...
By K Raveendran Gold is within striking distance of $2,000 per ounce in the international market and seems set to revisit its historical high, which was $2067 in August 2020. The latest price is around $1962 and is showing no signs of any immediate correction. In India, the precious...
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, following its recent victory in the Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost no time to reach out to the tribal Tipra Motha (TP) outfit to address the sensitive issue of securing the long term future of indigenous people. As a first step,...
By Tirthankar Mitra Confusion is setting in among a section of Trinamool Congress activists at the double face of the leadership towards scam tainted leaders even as party supremo Mamata Banerjee have asked them not to despair. They should walk along puffing up their chests, she further advised. The...
By James M Dorsey Chinese mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran potentially signals paradigm shifts in Middle Eastern diplomacy and alliances. The mediation suggests a more productive approach than that of the United States by seeking to manage rather than resolve conflicts based on principles enunciated by China in...
By Philip Marcelo As Wall Street reels from the swift demise of Silicon Valley Bank—the biggest American bank failure since the 2008 financial meltdown—some social media users and conservative journalists are honing in on a single culprit: its socially aware, or “woke,” agenda. But the Santa Clara-based institution’s professed...
By Sushil Kutty The Narendra Modi government will not let Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to speak in Parliament till he gives in to the government diktat. Forget Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, he stands no chance against the government. And as for the rest of the BJP, including those...
By Arun Kumar India’s per capita income, representing the average income of an Indian citizen, has risen from INR 79,000 in 2013–14 to INR 1,71,000 in 2022–23 — an increase of 116 percent. Therefore, some claim that incomes have more than doubled in India since the present ruling dispensation...
By Prabhat Patnaik For a large part of the dirigiste period, the gross domestic product of the Indian economy grew at a rate of around 4 per cent per annum or less, which, though an improvement compared to the colonial era that had witnessed virtual stagnation, was not very...