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By Aditya Aamir Okay, here’s the deal Franco. You step down for the time being and we deal with the nun. The spotlight is on you and our mission is to spread the light in Punjab. Evangelism in Punjab has stuck where it started 200 years ago with the...
By Sushil Kutty “If a girl is dressed decently, a boy will not look at her in the wrong way.” That was Manoharlal Khattar before he took charge as Haryana Chief Minister in October 2014. “If you want freedom, why don’t they just roam around naked? Freedom has to...
By K R Sudhaman The joke going around social media is that an economic reporter wanted to interview finance minister Arun Jaitley. But Jaitley said he would talk only on cricket. The reporter, happy that he got at last a chance to ask Jaitley some questions if he should...
By Arun Srivastava Despite the best efforts of his supporters to protect Nitish Kumar’s public image in the face of a vertical decline during last one year due to the serious break down in the law and order in the state, the Bihar chief minister seems to be finally...
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s nearly a trillion-dollar foreign trade seems to be benefiting foreign shippers, shipowners, seafarers and insurance companies more than the local service providers. Foreign vessels are reportedly carrying over 90 percent of Indian cargo. The shipping industry is equipped more with bulk carriers than modern container...
By Nitya Chakraborty Rahul Gandhi completed nine months in office as the Congress President on September 16.This was a period of big challenges for the Congress and despite some small mistakes and a few wrong assessments, Rahul has come out as a stronger leader who can lead the opposition...
By Aditya Aamir ’English’. It denotes a people. It’s also a medium of exchange (yeah, not money) – a language spoken by more than half of the world. English has given voice to billions – status and riches, too. To the lost ship at sea, there’s no stronger emotion...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s a stirring tale of conviction, commitment and confidence: a super star scientist’s 24-year battle to redeem a reputation tarnished by false allegations; a fair name besmirched by a frightening concatenation of circumstances. The legal victory connotes a glorious testament to a man’s courage of...
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has curtly ruled out any cut in the high excise duty on fuel prices, saying the petrol and diesel price hikes are caused by volatile international prices an, therefore, due to external factors. To add insult to injury, he has criticised the...
By B. Sivaraman The flurry of news on migrant workers’ issues in August-September has implications for policy. First came the strike threat by 7–8 lakh migrant sugarcane workers in Maharashtra, who were demanding doubling of the wages from the present Rs.200 per tonne. Powerloom workers in Surat, including five...