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By Nitya Chakraborty Come December. It can be the cruellest month for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP. If the present trends continue and the Congress and the other opposition parties can meet the electoral challenge of the assembly polls in the five states-Rajasthan, Madhya...
By Tom Gill It’s been 18 months since France was rocked by the crushing victory of the pro-European Union Emmanuel Macron and his new political movement in the presidential and legislative elections last year. That victory delivered a body blow to the two established parties—the conservative Les Republicains...
By Arun Srivastava Lynching and urban naxals have the same ideological background. While lynching was resorted to by the RSS and its frontal organisations to terrorise Muslims, Dalits and other minorities, traditionally anti-saffron and secular forces, the phrase urban naxal is the latest weapon designed by the RSS...
By Sushil Kutty For the first time in Central Bureau of Investigation history, the top-dog and second top-dog in the CBI are engaged in an ugly dogfight, each snapping at the heels of the other, leaving it to the imagination as to who is Honest George Washington...
By Amulya Ganguli One wonders what Pranab Mukherjee, Kailash Satyarthi and Ratan Tata will make of the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s latest speech in which he gave a clarion call for an ordinance to build the Ram temple without any further delay. The three stalwarts – a...
By Kalyani Shankar All eyes are on Rajasthan, as among the three BJP ruled states going for Assembly polls in November-December, Rajasthan seems to be more vulnerable than the other two – Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh – for the BJP. The Congress is upbeat with the pre-poll surveys...
Kerala Brahmana Sabha files review petition in the Sabrimala judgment – The All Kerala Brahmins Association, also known as Kerala Brahmana Sabha filed a review petition in the Sabrimala decision arguing that the restriction did not pertain to gender discrimination. The Court should have considered similar restrictions placed on...
By Gyan Pathak With the passage of Disaster Management Act 2005 and subsequent disaster management policies adopted by our country, we know that managing large assembly of people and preventing any disaster during such times is the responsibility of the state and the concerned departments, which are supposed...
By Kevin Ovenden The advance of the extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the first round of the Brazilian presidential election confirms the global threat of the growth of authoritarian reaction. With nearly 50 million votes, 46 percent, it will take an enormous upset for the center-left Workers...
By Amritananda Chakravorty Last week witnessed the biggest fall out of the #MeToo movement, with the resignation of M.J. Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, and an (in) famous journalist, known for his sexual predatory ways. This was the first time that a Minister accused of...