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By Anjan Roy Atal Behari Vajpayee will be remembered fondly by friends and foes alike. Those whom he fought will remember him, as always, being above board; those he had worked with will remember him with nostalgia. The very mention of very name brought to mind the broad visage...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: These are not frightening frames from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. These are shocking sights of a real-life tragedy unfolding its horrors. And it has been the lot of God’s Own Country to witness it. Kerala is no stranger to rain havoc and the resultant flood...
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi coined a new phrase ‘Minimum Government; Maximum Governance’ in 2014. Recently in his ‘mann ki baat’ radio address, he said good governance is the birthright of every Indian citizen like swaraj (independence) and we should have it. Nearly four and a...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The NDA’s victory in the election of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman was of course the result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strategy. But it was also helped by the failure of Congress to put up a fight of substance. Rahul Gandhi did not contact with...
By Amulya Ganguli In VS Naipaul’s death, Hindutva has lost an icon. It is an irreparable loss, for there is unlikely to be any other Nobel laureate who will echo BJP MLA Sangeet Som’s view on the Taj Mahal as a “blot on our culture”. Like the UP legislator...
By Nitya Chakraborty In the wake of the Independence Day address of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the publication of an opinion poll of a news channel that the Congress has good chance of regaining all the three states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the coming assembly...
By Aditya Aamir NDTV also stings. Till the other day it was thought stings are only Cobrapost. But NDTV anchor Nidhi Razdan wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a press conference, “like prime ministers of all democratic countries hold.” This after Modi gave an “email interview” to questions...
i. Appeal against acquittal order of Talwars admitted – The Supreme Court has admitted the appeal, filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the Allahabad High Court decision acquitting the Talwar couple in the double murder of their daughter Arushi and the help Hemraj. An appeal was also...
By Arun Srivastava The moves by Amit Shah, the so-called Chanakya of BJP, are no more invincible and his charisma is on the decline. Recent defeats of his party at the by-polls have shaken his confidence. It is perhaps this sense of loss that has prompted his frequent Kolkata...
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a landmark decision, the Delhi High Court decriminalised begging in Delhi, and struck down many provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (‘BPBA’), as extended to the National Capital Territory of Delhi in 1960. In a decision given by the Acting Chief Justice,...