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IUML In Kerala Buffeted By Another Crisis
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the powerful ally of the Congress in the United Democratic Front (UDF), has been buffeted by another crisis. The latest crisis has erupted over the IUML leadership’s decision to freeze the state committee of Haritha, the women’s wing of...
Govt Mixes Up National Security With Leaders’ Sense Of Insecurity
By K Raveendran The Modi government believes that national security and the sense of insecurity for the rulers are one and the same thing and freely interchangeable. There was further evidence of this in its response to the petitions relating to the use of Pegasus spyware when the...
Modi’s Last Ditch Effort To Stall Investigation Into Pegasus Scandal
By Arun Srivastava The next ten days are going to be extremely crucial for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government as the Supreme Court on Tuesday served a notice to the Modi government telling it in clear words that it will hear the Pegasus snooping case...
Heat And Flood To Become More Devastating In South Asia
By Gyan Pathak The latest climate risk profiles prepared by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) Group and also the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) have categorically demonstrated in their assessment that heat waves and floods will be occurring in...
India Should Revisit Its Existing Trade Policy To Boost Exports
By Subrata Majumder Prime Minister Narendra Modi was euphoric in declaring that India was a major exporter of mobile phones in the world in his 75th Independence speech on 15th August, exhibiting India’s advancement in technology. India exported mobile phone, worth US $ 3 billion .Seven years ago,...
Rohinton Nariman Was A Defender Of Human Rights As Supreme Court Judge
By Harihar Swarup An elephantine memory, a forensic ability to interpret law and a thundering voice—justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, a man ordained a Parsi priest at 12, has retired from Supreme Court on August 12 after seven years of judgeship. There are a number of firsts one can...
Legal Status Of Taliban Regime In Afghanistan Is Yet To Be Decided
By Mohan V Katarki Upon the withdrawal of American military forces from the territory of Afghanistan, Kabul has been overrun by Taliban, an insurgent militant Islamist outfit that was biding its time in the mountains of Afghanistan for the last two decades. The defenseless Afghanis are seen rushing to...
Indian People Are Ready To Deny Third Term To Narendra Modi As PM
By Sushil Kutty The ‘mood’ does not favour Modi. Support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ebbed. Only 24 percent want to see him PM for a third term. The percentage was 66 a year ago. That is a Niagara Falls magnitude stumble from the heights, a slam-dunk in...
It’s Advantage-Beijing In The Nebulous Power Dynamics In Kabul
By Sankar Ray The photograph of China’s state councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political bureau chief of Afghanistan’s Taliban, in Tianjin, China on 28 July 2021 was an advance message that Beijing was destined to be the closest ally of the Taliban if...
India At 75 Face Unique Challenges For Making The Country Economically Strong
By Kalyani Shankar On the evening of August 14, 1947, the then Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and his wife Edwina settled down to watch a Bob Hope movie, “My Favourite Brunette.” A few yards away, in the Central Hall of Parliament, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru rose to make his famous ‘Tryst...
