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By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress leadership has finally announced the panel for preparing the manifesto of the Party for fighting the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in 2019.The content of the GOP’s manifesto is of crucial importance to the grassroots cadres of the Party since these will...
By Nantoo Banerjee Kerala might have witnessed this August the heaviest-ever rainfall since 1924 causing a disastrous flood killing over 300 people, rendering thousands homeless and destroying crops in nearly one million hectares of land, but experts assessing the causes behind the calamity and its impact substantially blame...
By Barun Das Gupta Tiny Mizoram (area 23,000 sq. kms, population 11 lakh) is the last outpost of the Congress in the North-East. State Assembly elections are due in Mizoram by the year end. In the last Assembly elections held in 2013, the Congress won 34 of the...
By K Raveendran In parts of the world where extreme principles of Shariah justice are practised, an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth are still the norm. People have been blinded for hurting their victims in the eye and hands chopped off to ensure retribution...
By Harihar Swarup What will be the scenario like if the general elections are held today—nine months before schedule? If the Opposition unites against the BJP and Narendra Modi, then it will be a battle between UPA and NDA, seeing a return of coalition governments, according to a...
By Kevin Ovenden It had been planned to be a lavish celebration on the Pnyx hill next to the Acropolis in Athens where the citizenry would hold popular assemblies in the ancient democratic period. The angry aftermath of the forest fires last month put paid to Greek...
Indian telcos have been given directed by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to collect a two-factor verification process while issuing new SIM cards to customers and one of the factors must include facial recognition to prevent misuse of Aadhaar authentication. In previous circular UIDAI had asked to ensure...
By Aditya Aamir Flood waters that badly wounded Kerala’s present and jeopardized its future are receding but controversies swirl and one of them involves the sandy country of UAE “which is a home away from home” for the Malayali, according to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Turns out...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Now it seems to be Akhilesh Yadav’s turn to play the soft Hindutva card. With the Lok Sabha elections not far, the Samajwadi Party national president has surprised everyone with his move. Akhilesh Yadav has announced that if his party was voted to...
By Angshukanta Chakraborty Veteran journalist and a one-time editor of The Indian Express and The Statesman, former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and prolific author — Kuldip Nayar — breathed his last in the wee hours of Thursday, August 23, in a New Delhi hospital. He was...