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Sushil Kutty Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is a square block of a man. And HDK is head honcho of Karnataka because of ‘combination’ rather than ‘permutation’. By definition, ‘order’ matters in permutation. But ‘order’ doesn’t matter for combination. Rahul Gandhi’s party has double the seats of HDK’s Janata...
By Dr Arun Mitra It is an irony that healthcare has always been given a back seat in the priority list of successive governments. It has not been a public agenda either. Elections have many a times been fought on trivial issues. Therefore, there is hardly a public...
By John Bachtell Marxism is the world’s most influential body of thought and has changed the course of human history. It is more relevant than ever for addressing humanity’s urgent challenges despite the desperate efforts by the capitalist class to bury it. Among their many discoveries, Marx...
By K. Raveendran With the ‘murder of democracy’ in the Karnataka Assembly having been averted, thanks to a midnight intervention of the Supreme Court, and a joint JDS-Congress government under H D Kumaraswamy duly installed in place of BJP, it may now be time to revisit the developments...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Chengannur assembly by-election, campaign for which ended on May 26, is all set for a thrilling finish. The by-election, which was necessitated by the death of CPI(M) MLA K K Ramachandran Nair, saw a no-holds-barred and high-voltage campaign by the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic...
By Arun Jaitley The NDA Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed four years in office. Today it enters its fifth year in office. The preceding ten years of the UPA rule had unquestionably witnessed the most corrupt Government since Independence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi created...
By Harihar Swarup The outcome of Karnataka elections is loud and clear. It’s emergence of a grand anti-BJP front before next year’s Lok Sabha’s elections which otherwise looked an impossible task. An error, a mighty miscalculation or call it political opportunism in inviting BJP leader B S Yeddurappa...
By C H Venkatachalam Ten Lakh bank employees are to go on 48-hour continued strike on May 30 and 31, 2018, against the meagre offer of wage hike for the bank employees. Bank employees and officers’ wage revision is due since November 11, 2017. Finance Ministry had...
By Aditya Aamir Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s #HumFitTohIndiaFit challenge to cricketer Virat Kohli has landed Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking remarkably unfit! Rathore tagged Kohli to the challenge and Anushka Sharma’s husband promptly tagged PM Modi to #HumFitTohIndiaFit. Within the hour, Modi was target of a 101...
By Anjan Roy It is four years since the Modi government had come to power and already the next general election is on the horizon. People will have to judge in whom to put their confidence in the forthcoming election. Stock taking is in order. The Modi...