By Arun Srivastava The Election Commission accusing the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee of misdemeanour and contemplating to take severe action against her, has been unprecedented in the electoral history of the country and smacks of a well-defined script written by the top government functionaries. EC threat of taking legal...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clear evidence of the tacit deal between the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP in Kerala has surfaced to the acute embarrassment of both the parties. What is even more surprising is that a few top BJP leaders themselves have spilled the beans....
By Chada Venkata Reddy Our country is sovereign democratic republic. People alone are rulers. People elect governments. Based on the norms of Constitution, government should be restrained by the basic constitutional principles and thus implement laws. But it has become common for ruling government to take unilateral decisions. With...
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Special CBI court judge VR Rawal, while acquitting three Gujarat police officers—Inspector General of Police GL Singhal, retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Bharot, and assistant Sub-Inspector Anaju Chaudhari—has offered a line of reasoning that seems to make partial, but not total, legal sense,...
By S Sethuraman There is a pattern the way the Centre has forced itself thick into State poll battles in 2021 (South and East) with the Modi Government’ and BJP’s determined objectives of not merely wresting West Bengal from Mamata Banerjee’s TMC and retaining Assam, but also becoming a...
By K Raveendran India’s much-touted role as the ‘pharmacy of the world’ is under threat, thanks to a build-up of negative publicity, partly deliberate and partly spontaneous, on the perceived stoppage of the export of covid vaccines to other countries. The build-up started with the reported decision by the...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This week witnessed a slew of setbacks for the Leader Of the Opposition, Ramesh Chennithala (LOP) in particular and the Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) in general in Kearala on the eve of the assembly polling on April 6. The first jolt came when the Kerala...
By Gyan Pathak The surge in C0VID-19 infections and the resulting deaths in India is frightening enough to make the people apprehensive about fresh lockdowns. Stringent measures and local lockdowns are already being used in many infected areas in several states, and the centre has already given directions for...
By Harihar Swarup At the invitation of Prime Seikh Hasina, Minister Narendra Modi visited Bangladesh from 26 to 27 to participate in the 50th –anniversary celebrations of Independence of Bangladesh to attend the beginning of the year-long celebration in March 2020 which had to be deferred due to the...
By Sagarneel Sinha With the completion of two phases of elections covering 86 assembly seats in Assam, the attention is on the 40 seats, mostly in lower Assam, which will go for polls on the last phase on April 6. Although much before the polls, BJP led NDA was...
By Arun Srivastava The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, might have thought his Bangladesh visit at the time of elections in Bengal would instil Matua community in the state. But he is mistaken. Not only the Muslims but even Hindus have come to distrust his observation as well as the...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The run up to the three-phase assembly polls in Assam has been dominated by high-pitched campaigns by almost all senior BJP leaders led by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda. The Congress, on the other hand, is relying on Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra...
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s letter to 14 opposition leaders to unite against the BJP’s attacks against the Constitutional norms and the powers of the non-BJP state governments- just three days before her historic battle in Nandigram assembly constituency against her former protege BJP candidate...
By Arun Srivastava It appears that the BJP’s Chanakya, Amit Shah, has lost his skill and has nothing new to offer except some old decadent and outdated rhetoric. The most potent offer he and his boss Narendra Modi has made to the people of Bengal has been creation of...
By Sushil Kutty The other day the National Human Rights Commission issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh DGP for police filing false cases against 10 people who asked a band of cops to settle their restaurant Bill! The NHRC wouldn’t have guessed that the United States State Department was...
By Krishna Jha On March 28, it was the birthday of Maxim Gorky who had said, “Till a single baby in the world cries of hunger, I can not rest…” In one sentence, he defined a writer, who lives for the cause of humanity and writes without fear. But...
By Sumedha Pal Protests against the three contentious farm laws, passed by the central government in September 2020, are raging across India and the remotest tribal belts of the country are no exception. For the adivasis, farm laws are inextricably tied up with the failure of the government to...
By Karl Engels Early last summer, when it was already obvious that the pandemic was making a wreck of the economy, Joe Biden appeared to have a light bulb moment. He seemed to realize that everything had changed, and that, to keep up with history, he better change as...