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By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea from Ayyappa celibacy-busters Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini for police protection. The two want protection in the aftermath of the image-shifting feat they conjured up in the Kerala chaos they are in part responsible for, along with the...
By Matein Khalid Merger mania in Wall Street media shares was a profitable theme for me in 2018, particularly since I owned 21st Century Fox shares well before Walt Disney made its epic bid for the Murdoch clan’s flagship brand, the parent of President Trump’s beloved news channel. The...
Downplaying the alliance of BSP and SP in Uttar Pradesh state the Union Health Minister JP Nadda said Wednesday his Bharatiya Janata Party will win 74 seats out of eighty in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Nadda is the party’s election in-charge for UP and was addressing to senior...
By Sanjiv Krishan Sood It was disconcerting to see a Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government claim that the law and order situation in the State had improved after the Adityanath government took over. The statement, coming a couple of days after the brutal killing of a policeman in Gazipur...
By Aditya Aamir Education. Lack of skills. Jobs. Unemployment. Start thinking of these and the picture of a banana republic emerges. How much does India allocate for education? Compared to developed countries, hardly enough to cover the population. The US Department of Education got discretionary funding of $70.7 billion...
Sushil Kutty “It came by the Kollam Bypass,” the man on the telephone whispered. “It’s very confidential. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential Award. Don’t spread the word to all his Mitron just yet. It came down to the wire, the selection you...
By K R Sudhaman Come January, rent-seeking starts from various pressure groups for tax sops and other concessions in the budget and it is always a tight rope walk for any finance minister as lobbyists, industrialists, agriculturists, exporters and so on seek relief but none will advice the...
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi government has saved the French company Dassault from a serious financial crisis in 2016 by giving orders for 36 Rafale jets at the cost of sacrificing the viability of its own public sector enterprise Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd(HAL) by denying its offset partnership, according...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come up with one another offer to lure voters in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. He announced extension of the 7th Central Pay Commission to the government teachers. The Ministry of Human Resource Development approved Tuesday the recommendations to academic staff of government with...
By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati is brimming with generosity. Like her entering into alliance with Samajwadi Party after nearly a quarter century of nursing animosity, her leaving two seats to the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and for his mother Sonia Gandhi is an exceptional political act. By...