Sushil Kutty A fake news on a leftist website with the headline ‘Justice Mishra Recuses from the Loya Case’ with the article’s body saying otherwise remains on website even as news came that the case will be heard by a two-judge bench comprising of Chief Justice of India Dipak...
By Gyan Pathak The political turn of events unmistakably indicates that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the crossroads, where he stands solely with his own wisdom and strength, and his bête noire Rahul Gandhi in wonderland. Modi has been trying to break the shackles of the...
By Arun Srivastava Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s convoy was stoned in Nandan village of Dumraon block during his tour to the village as part of his state-wide Vikas Samiksha Yatra. The police put the blame on dalits, which is considered a tactical ploy to shield the local legislator...
By Subrata Majumder After the three previous Bengal global investment summits turned dormant, the 4thsummit held this month threw some rays of hope. Most of the MOUs signed in the three previous summits remained on paper. But the latest made a seamless attempt to woo investors after Chief...
By K. Raveendran An unusually warm January has produced an unprecedented cold war, the first such in the annals of Supreme Court, with a detente totally absent. Four judges, all men of known integrity and eminence, one of them a future Chief Justice, have staged a mutiny against...
By Harihar Swarup This is not for the first time that Supreme Court judges have aired their grievances publicly, but the way four senior most judges of the apex court revolted against the functioning of the Chief Justice is unprecedented. Justice JS Verma spoke in late nineties...
By John Wojcik There is something rotten about the way the Russiagate probe is going these days, and the plausible explanations are quite troubling. The first thing that smells bad is the fact that the White House Counsel Don McGahn and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon...
By Sushil Kutty Congress President Rahul Gandhi, when he was Congress vice president, led a party delegation to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi at the height of PLA intrusion into Doklam, and courted controversy, with the party first denying it and then accepting it. It appeared at...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP leader Mayawati feels that the Modi government may go for early Lok Sabha polls as things would be difficult for the saffron party next year. She made this clear in her birthday address, which was beamed live through TV channels. She was of...
By G. Srinivasan Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is all set to present his final budget on February 1, 2018 as the incumbent NDA would not technically present one in 2019 February. Presumably, with the nation going to the polls in May next year, a lot of hot air...