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By Amulya Ganguli Mayawati may have botched her own chances of being one of the front-runners in the prime ministerial race among the national opposition parties by her self-serving manoeuvres in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. From now on, she will generally be perceived as being in the BJP’s corner...
By Nantoo Banerjee Last week, India’s defence ministry said “the government has stated earlier and again reiterates that it had no role in the selection of Reliance Defence as the offset partner” of Dassault Aviation. Ironically, the French government too said it had no role in choice of Indian...
By Anjan Roy As we were scurrying across to escape the relentless scorching sun into the cool comforts of the exhibition halls at Greater Noida Exposition Centre, Ms Helena Li was looking around rather wistfully. It was so much of wasted opportunity. She meant the sunshine. Helena Li is...
By B. Sivaraman The Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on 24 August 2018 that the Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) added 1,07,54,348 new members from September 2017 to June 2018.But then the CSO also added that in the same period, 60,40,616 members ceased subscribing to EPF. The pro-government commentators...
By P. Sreekumaran Retribution has caught up with the Jalandhar bishop, Franco Mulakkal, who is facing charges of raping a nun. Shedding inhibitions and fending off pressure, the Kerala police has at last arrested the rape-accused bishop. In the process, a debilitating body blow has been dealt to entrenched...
By K Raveendran Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan claims to have sent a report to the PMO giving details of major bank default candidates, but apparently there was no action taken on it. There are two possible scenarios regarding the report. On perusal of the report Modi may have...
By Aditya Aamir What do you say if the decision to cancel the UNGA meet with Pakistan is compared with Smriti Irani’s attempt to trample on freedom of expression with her diktat to PIB and mainstream media? In both cases Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to step in as...
By Harihar Swarup If the 92-year-old RSS is seeking an image makeover, it is a welcome sign. The wind of change is blowing all over the world, and it is time the RSS, should also bring about reforms and shed its image of an obscurantist organization. Those who have...
By Sushil Kutty Bad behaviour is repeated until it is punished. With serial rapists and Pakistan, there is never a singular incidence of any really bad behaviour. Bad behaviour is in their DNA. But seems like Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided enough of the punishment, let’s give Pakistan another...
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar has finally succeeded in getting his second in Command. Induction of his former electoral strategist Prashant Kishor into the Janata Dal United was initially presumed as a move by Nitish to work out a blue print of working policy and also to evolve a...