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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi sounding the poll bugle during their visits to Kerala, political mercury has soared in the state. Consequently, political parties have slipped into the poll mode. Seat allocation talks have gathered momentum. Expectedly, hard bargaining over...
By Nitya Chakraborty The latest controversial report prepared by the National Sample Survey Office(NSSO) of the Government of India has exposed in a revealing manner the deception game of the Narendra Modi regime which did not allow the survey to be released leading to the resignation of the two...
Religious leader Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati announced Wednesday at Kumbh Mela the ‘silanyas’ of Ram temple in Ayodhya is planned to take place on February 21 and Hindus are urged to reach carrying four bricks each. Called as ‘ishtika nyas’ (laying of bricks), the planned ceremony was announced at the...
Assam NRC deadline not to be extended beyond 31stJuly – The Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline for the publication of the final National Register of Citizens for Assam beyond 31 July. The State Co-ordinator informed the Court that due to the impending general elections, the finalisation of...
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a keenly watched matter, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) last week in its entirety. The IBC was enacted in 2016 with the intention to amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate...
By Arun Srivastava Ever since Nitish took charge as Bihar chief minister he has been claiming that he succeeded to reach education to the door steps of the poor and empower them. In the initial years of his rule he had provided some incentives, books, dress and cycle to...
By Aditya Aamir Congress MP of Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor is a naughty Malayali. He took to microblogging site Twitter to taunt Yogi Adityanath. At the Yogi taking a holy dip at the Kumbh. Encircled by his Cabinet. Water splashing, the camera catching the splashes in the light of the...
By Sushil Kutty The Modi government should have taken the decision in 2014 and not waited till January 2019 election-eve: Use Ram Mandir as propeller to catapult BJP-led NDA to another term in office. Blame it on Rahul Gandhi and Congress. If Rahul Gandhi had not announced ‘basic minimum...
By Nilanjan Banik As India heads for election, issues relating to jobless growth and farm distress are haunting the NDA government. The common perception is both these factors are responsible for widening income inequality in India. Oxfam International Report 2019, however, argues this worsening income distribution is a global...
By Sagarneel Sinha Since the induction of Priyanka Gandhi, who resembles her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, into the battle of Uttar Pradesh officially as the Congress general secretary, the grand old party has been in a jubilant mood. Priyanka’s entry to the party was never doubted;...