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Reining In ‘Freebies’ Needs Thorough Debate
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The ongoing freebies case in the Supreme Court of India has reached an interesting stage with the DMK seeking to be made a party into it. It clearly indicated that the presumption on which the ‘freebies’ is understood would decide its fate in favour...
Release Of The Eleven Imprisoned Rapists Of Bilkis Bano Is Atrocious
By Sushil Kutty Monday, the eleven persons who gang-raped Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots walked free. The panel that let them off called it “remission”, which is different from “relapse”. And, with these ’11’, you never know when they’ll have a relapse. Anything is possible...
Heyday For Geopolitics Of Eurasian Transport
By James M Dorsey When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took itself off the map of Eurasian transport corridors linking China and Europe. At the same time, it breathed new life into moribund routes that would allow goods to travel across the Eurasian landmass without traversing Russia. It also...
Jagdeep Dhankar Had A Chequered Career Involving Many Political Parties
By Harihar Swarup The Vice-President, Jagdeep Dhanker is a quick learner. Within months of joining the Sainik School in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh, as a class five student, he became proficient in English. “During the summer vacation when he came home, he was asked before visiting government officials to display...
NATO Expansion Into Finland And Sweden A Danger To World Peace
By David Cavendish On Wednesday, August 10, President Joe Biden signed the treaty to admit Sweden and Finland to membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This follows on the action last week of the Senate, which voted 95 to 1 (with one member voting “present”...
DMK moves Supreme Court over ‘freebies’ term scope
Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK has filed a petition in the Supreme Court in the ongoing case about “freebies”, contending that the scope of the term is very wide and “there are a lot of aspects which need to be considered”. The court is hearing a petition that has challenged...
Prime Minister’s Five Pledges On Independence Day Mean Very Little To Poor
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi must have burned midnight oil to think up his five pledges to turn India into a country of his dreams by 2047, independent India’s centenary year. And the ’5 Modi Pledges’ appear to have limped away from the basic goals of...
Labour Movement Has Lost Its Earlier Striking Power
By Gyan Pathak The change in the world of work has been accelerating, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country and India was put under lockdown since March 24, 2020. Barring those who were working in government, public sector, and in essential services, the majority of the...
Decoding My Seventy-Two Years In Independent India
By Nitya Chakraborty I first participated in Independence Day celebrations on August 15, 1950, in Calcutta at Prince Ghulam Mohammad Road near Lake Market. I was nine years old. Our family came as refugees from East Bengal, then in Pakistan, in March 1950 and stayed at my oldest...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Achhe Din’ Now Needs 25 Years More
By S. Sethuraman Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned his eagerly awaited address on the 75th Independence anniversary, more an electoral plank for 2024 while throwing up a 25-year agenda for the nation to be rid of all ills plaguing it at present. He put Corruption and Nepotism as...
Donald Trump Is On Dock Over FBI Seizures Of Classified Documents From His House
By Debabrata Biswas From Boston When Donald. J. Trump, the former president of USA, left the White House after his defeat in 2020 election and shifted to his Florida residence at Mar – a- Lago, he took with him boxes of official documents which had to be handed...
Bihar Developments Are Going To Have Impact In Uttar Pradesh In 2024 Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor Bihar developments leading to the formation of new government without BJP will impact the politics in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh before 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Significantly, the main opposition party7 Samajwadi Party welcomed the latest turn of events resulting in humiliation of BJP. Enthused...
Amrit Mahotsava Has Been Turned Into A Big Jumla By Sangh Parivar
By Arun Srivastava Celebration of “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsva” contained more negatives vibes and the concealed agenda of accomplishing the mission of the RSS, than to really honour and rejoice the revered Independence Day for which lakhs of Indians attained martyrdom. Basically, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
For Global Arms Dealers, Russian War In Ukraine Is A Big Bonanza
By Marc Vandepitte The invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than five months now and hostilities may continue for quite some time. In military terms, the outcome is still uncertain, but what is already clear is who the big winners and losers of this conflict...
Modi blasts dynasty politics, corruption in his I-Day speech
Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted five pledges for India during his independence day address from the Red Fort on the occasion of 75th Independence Day. “In coming years, we’ve to focus on ‘Panchpran’- First, to move forward with bigger resolves & resolve of developed India; Second, erase all traces of...
Bihar Cabinet Expansion To Take Place After August 15
By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar Cabinet expansion is likely to be done after August 15. The JD(U) is probably going to have 13 ministers, the RJD has settled for 16. The Congress will be given four berths, while former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM will have one...
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Indian Warren Buffett, dead
Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala died this morning at a Mumbai hospital. He was 62. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was rushed to the Breach Candy Hospital at around 6.45 am after he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was declared dead on arrival by the hospital authorities. He was discharged from the same hospital...
Vidhi Centre’s New Book Says Nullification Of Article 370 Unconstitutional
By Harihar Swarup Friday August 5 was the third anniversary of the nullification of Article 370. It was also the date on which Hamin Ast? a Biography of the Article 370 published by Vidhi Centre for legal policy. was released. The book could create an enormous stir...
