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By Aditya Aamir The first rule of finding a solution is to be educated and not emotional about the problem. But it is hard when people are yelling in your face and getting physical. Well, not today or tomorrow, but say in two weeks’ time, when one ‘R’...
By K Raveendran When Congressman Kapil Sibal, claiming to represent the Sunni Waqf Board in the Ayodhya Ramjanmabhoomi title dispute, sought to put pressure on the three-man bench headed by the then chief justice Dipak Mishra last year to delay hearing of the case until after the 2019...
By Conn Hallinan The news that the U.S. recently held face-to-face talks with the Taliban suggests that the longest war in U.S. history may have reached a turning point, although the road to such a peace is long, rocky, and plagued with as many improvised explosive devices as...
By Harihar Swarup The voters’ mood and the poll-surveys in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh reveal that people have been inclining more towards the Congress and Mayawati’s BSP is no factor. The picture in Chhattisgarh is not clear with rebel Congress leader and former Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi,...
By Nitya Chakraborty Congress President Rahul Gandhi is making a strategic mistake in his campaigning and press conferences in the recent days by focusing only on Rafale scam and Anil Ambani. Rahul is absolutely right in targeting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of Rafale deal...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Perhaps with remarkable confidence and ruling out any state wide collective revolt, the ruling BJP released its first list of candidates, leaving Congress far behind. The party denied tickets to 38 sitting MLAs, including three ministers. This means the party will have fresh...
By Ollie Hopkins The United Nations voted 189-2 to condemn the illegal United States blockade of Cuba on November 1. Only Israel backed the US in opposing the resolution calling for an end to the 60-year-old measure aimed at isolating and suffocating the Cuban Revolution. The two countries...
By K R Sudhaman The Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Argentina in November end could not have come at a more opportune moment as the world’s top 20 nations can sit across the table to resolve the global turmoil arising out of US-China trade war that...
By B. Sivaraman Defying Essential Service Maintenance Act (ESMA) by workers has become as common today as the routine acts of invoking ESMA by governments of all hues. For instance, speculation was rife among the bank employees in October end that the government might invoke ESMA against...
By Dr Arun Mitra Life is a dynamic process, evolving continuously under the influence of various factors. No wonder, devoid of knowledge about the causes of natural happenings around, man attributed several events to be caused by some unknown powers. This gave rise to several practices around...