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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...
By Nitya Chakraborty In politics, even a week is not a long time. Only a few days back, the BJP leadership was upbeat at the fate of opposition unity against its all powerful Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the breakdown of the Congress-BSP alliances in the coming state...
Credit unions across the United States are facing a crisis of survival. Aging membership, lower lifetime member values, and a shrinking share of assets and deposits have many credit unions of all sizes wondering how to turn around and face the future head-on. Mergers and shrinking membership numbers mean...
By Mark Gruenberg Millions of voters, many of them Democrats including historic numbers of women, angry at the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and subsequent GOP actions trashing everyone but the 1 percent, are mobilizing in a blue wave. A fearful part of the Trump base, many...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress sources say state-level seat adjustments for the Assembly elections have been left to the respective state units and a grand alliance of opposition parties for the Lok Sabha would be taken up only after the five state assembly elections are over. But the...
By Subrata Majumder Gone are the days when the US sneezes, Japan gets a cold. Today, Japan can say ‘No’ to US. Despite USA’s grave concern over the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, the recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China shows Japanese willingness to...
By Nitya Chakraborty Bad days are staring at the Narendra Modi Government just six months before the scheduled elections to the Lok Sabha. The CBI administration is in tatters, both the top bosses of this premier investigation agency of the country, are fighting in courts, the RBI...
By Aditya Aamir If nobody has noticed so far, there’s something about Rahul Gandhi that has largely gone unnoticed. He is one of those individuals least “self-aware” among politicians. Bet the mirror is no great shakes for the Congress president. The stubble and the creased loose kurta-pyjama does...