By Tirthankar Mitra Led by CPI(M) Left Front seems to have a leg up in next year’s panchayat polls in the state. The change of political fortune is thanks to the windfall it received from the recent series of intra-party squabbles with state saffron from camp and Trinamool Congress...
By N. Kavitha Rameshwar “It is well for a judge to remind himself or herself of the fact that flattery is the graveyard of the gullible”, said then Supreme Court Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, in one of his judgments. While being alive to this thought of his and how...
By K Raveendran The first major indication of the Supreme Court thinking on the reservation issue was available in the apex court’s judgment in the Maratha reservation case of 2021, although the substantive issue raised in that plea was different from the court’s latest stand in the 10 percent...
By Sushil Kutty Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Chandrachud have two years facing each across the aisle. The rightwing Prime Minister, and the left-liberal CJI described as progressive and ’woke’. Head to head, the two are as different as chalk and cheese, and the...
By Harihar Swarup With the Election Commission firing the starter’s gun for the Gujarat assembly elections, one thing is clear. The real fight is over who is best positioned to challenged the multi—decade positioned political hegemony of BJP. Will it be AAP or Congress? So it A (APP) versus...
By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a small entity within the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, starts its pre-2023 Assembly poll campaign with a handicap against rival, the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Led by former Congress leader Mukul Sangma, the TMC has 12 members...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is facing biggest challenge to defend Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat lying vacant after the demise of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who recently passed away. Taking this challenge seriously Akhilesh Yadav decided to field his wife Dimple Yadav to...
By Dr Arun Mitra Humanity is on a “highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator”, the UN secretary general has warned, saying ‘the fight for a liveable planet will be won or lost in this decade.’ He told world leaders at the opening of the Cop27...
By James M Dorsey Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hit all the right cords when he spoke virtually with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, at a meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee last month. Wang told Bin Farhan: “China attaches great importance to the development...
By Arun Srivastava It is not a secret what made the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to question the functioning of the collegium of the Supreme Court and malign the face of the judiciary in public. For a fortnight he has been targeting the judges and judiciary and accusing...