By Satyaki Chakraborty It was five years ago, on that fateful night of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his ‘historic’ decision of demonetization promising that it would act as a game changer in the Indian economy by driving out black money, weed out fake notes and...
By Sushil Kutty Maha Vikas Aghadi minister Nawab Malik is the best thing that has happened to you-tubers in a while. His ‘disclosure a day’ on NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s exploits is enough masala to keep raking in you-tube dollars. In fact, some you-tubers have gotten fat just...
By Sagarneel Sinha The Trinamool Congress is trying hard again to gain a foothold in Tripura, where the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee held his first rally on October 31. It had made several attempts in the past to expand the party in the northeastern state. After the...
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, a section of beleaguered Hindus in Comilla, Chattogram and other districts, where widespread communal violence had erupted during the Durga Puja, is reconsidering their future citizenship options, according to recent reports; many want to relocate/migrate to other countries in the long run. There is...
By Gulzar Bhat Sporting a scraggly beard, Mudasir Ahmad Bhat has his eyes hooked to his mobile screen, trying to open a website. Suddenly the data services vanish, and he has to rush to a nearby locality to get his phone connected to the internet. Bhat, a student from...
By K Raveendran The rather surprise cut in the central tax on diesel and petrol by the Modi government has turned out to be a deft political move. The timing of the announcement itself has been political. The cut came within 24 hours of the by-elections results in 11...
By Harihar Swarup Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent three-day visit to J&K was overdue. That it came over two years after the historic decision to abrogate Article 370 and bifurcate the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories of Ladakh and J&K, reflects the extraordinary times...
By Nikhil Parikshith Recent orders passed by the Supreme Court in Sonadhar vs. State of Chhattisgarh, offer a glimmer of hope for convicts languishing in jails for a considerable period of time. The orders passed in this case reveal the institutional apathy of the competent authorities in States towards...
By M A Hossain During the British colonial era, religion always played a catalytic role to achieve political power in the Indian Sub-continent. The colonizers subdued the natives to rule using religious division. Even the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 was commenced in the guise of the politics...
By Matein Khalid Trend is your friend until the trend comes to an end. So this has been a fabulous year to own US equities and I have surfed the Big Board/Nasdaq wave for high stakes with even occasional high octane leverage to bet on the right puppy. I...