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French Left Has A Big Opportunity To Defeat Ruling Party In Run-Off On June 19
By Satyaki Chakraborty French voters in their first round elections to the National Assembly of Parliamentarians on Sunday gave a clear signal to the incumbent President Emanuel Macron that the people are ready for change. The opening round saw Macron’s Ensemble coalition take a slight lead with 25.75 per...
Bulldozer Is The New Power Symbol In India Of Narendra Modi
By Arun Srivastava In the New India of RSS and Narendra Modi it is the lathi and not the rule of law that defines and underlines the character of India. Though the RSS and BJP leaders are not tired of claiming that India has not deviated from its traditional...
Price Rise And Inflation Now Devastating Poor Households
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Sharp price rise and inflation in general and of food articles in particular is now casting devastating impact on poor household, though Modi government and so called economic experts trying to underplay the dire consequences by telling the people all sorts of things including it...
Demolition Of Houses By Uttar Pradesh Government Through Bulldozer Is Illegal
By Satyaki Chakraborty Seeking ‘suo motu’ action against the bulldozer tactics and indiscriminate arrests of the protestors in Uttar Pradesh, several former judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts and senior advocates have written to the Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana, to intervene in the wake...
Foreign Portfolio Investors Find Indian Market Hot
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be surprised about the continuous exit from the Indian stock market by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs). It has been going on for the last several months. The market is overheated. It has been out of sync with the country’s economic growth since...
Latest Prophet Row Has Put BJP Leadership In A Delicate Situation
By Amulya Ganguli After three decades of political success across the length and breadth of the country from the west to the north to the centre to the north-east, the Hindutva juggernaut led by the BJP has run into heavy weather. Yet, it was a setback which was waiting...
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Is A Judge, Jury And Executioner In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty “Of course, you were not spreading rumours, the charge is you were spreading facts.” That’s the blurb on an RK Laxman cartoon of 1962, 60 years ago. Today’s cartoonists should take a kerchief out of Laxman’s pocket-cartoons. Lampooning is serious business. It should tickle the cerebral...
High Inflation, Rate Hikes Add To Gold’s Appeal Both As Hedge And Asset
By K Raveendran Like all other investment instruments, weaker investor interest has affected gold prices as well. There has been bi-directional equity volatility in recent times, but this has failed to support gold prices as short term momentum waned. Gold fell 3.8 percent in May this year leaving it...
India-Gulf Spat Over Prophet Remarks: Protagonists In Glass Houses
By James M Dorsey Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baqr, a man known for his pithy retorts, pretended to quiver in his pants. Hindu nationalists had called for a boycott of the Gulf airline after Qatar took India to task for derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed and Muslim worship...
Our Country Is Having Two Legal Systems-One For Rich Other For Poor
By Justice Madan B. Lokur (Retd.) Do we have two legal systems prevailing in the country? The Supreme Court actually said that India cannot have two parallel legal systems, “one for the rich and the resourceful and those who wield political power and influence and the other for the...
