By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With her three hours, maun vrat, at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the day she arrived Lucknow, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra not only stumped the ruling party but also scored over other opposition parties. With her decision to sit in dharna at the statue of...
By Ashis Biswas Frustrated beyond relief by powerful politically-backed West Bengal-based road transport mafia, Bangladesh business authorities have switched over using Railway services to continue their increasing import-export trade with India. Presently efforts are under way to build immediately at least two railway yards at the Benapole land customs...
By Nitya Chakraborty The 18-day monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 19 has given the anti-BJP opposition parties a big opportunity to take on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for its gross failure in protecting the lives and livelihoods of the millions of people who have...
By K Raveendran The stand taken by the Modi government in the Supreme Court that the ‘colonialist’ sedition can remain, but certain with safeguards, betrays the authoritarian traits of the government and its intention to use the draconian law whenever it feels threatened by dissent and adverse public opinion....
By Amulya Ganguli It appears that the RSS sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat, is finding it difficult to enforce his writ on bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together by arguing that their DNA is the same because of common ancestry. To the Hindutva hardliners, this formula is patently unacceptable. Apparently,...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers’ agitation against the three controversial farm laws is being crushed by the government in numerous ways including clamping of sedition charges on them on the one hand, while their agitation is getting escalated on the other. If things go in this direction the nation...
By Sushil Kutty You can take this Priyanka out of the Congress, but you cannot take the Congress out of this Priyanka! We’re talking of Priyanka Chaturvedi, now of the Shiv Sena, earlier very much a fixture in the Congress. Chaturvedi recently wrote a piece for media that is...
By Harihar Swarup After two decades, United States (US) President Joe Biden has announced the end of the US’s military mission in Afghanistan by August 31. This decision was not unanticipated, even if the timing and extent of the drawdown were deliberated until the last minute. Even now, the...
By Arun Srivastava The prime minister, Narendra Modi’s eulogy of the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath as visionary and efficient administration and attributing “unprecedented” success to him in tackling the Covid second wave and endorsing his handling of law and order, particularly crimes against women/ ought to be...
By Arun Srivastava It appears that the Haryana police is a bunch of officials and constables who are either deaf or dumb, or do not know the basics of the legal system or nurse strong hatred and aversion for the judiciary. In its quest to assuage the hurt feeling...