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By Sushil Kutty With Muslims fasting and generally comatose during the month of Ramzan, authorities in China have told mosques in China to raise the national flag to promote the spirit of patriotism. There are 20 million Muslims in China and they are, apart from the Uyghur, the...
By Aditya Aamir It is rare. It is deadly. It’s called the Nipah Virus! The fruit-bat borne virus has already killed 11 in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malapuram districts after the first three deaths in a family were diagnosed as Nipah, the name that spells panic. One of the...
By Emile Schepers Venezuela’s incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, of the United Socialist Party, won a new six-year term, according to preliminary results announced Sunday night by the National Election Council (CNE). Most of the right-wing opposition to the leftist government had boycotted the election, but some oppositionists broke...
By Nitya Chakraborty In the last decade, India has emerged as the world’s most dynamic lab for stability-enhancing innovations that support a more inclusive economy, according to The Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability published today by international NGO FHI 360 with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. The...
By Amulya Ganguli What the Karnataka election has shown is that neither Narendra Modi’s oratory nor Amit Shah’s organizational micromanagement is enough at a time of an ebbing tide for the BJP. The exposure of the inadequacies of these two seemingly invulnerable weapons cannot but be of concern...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The new labour policy, which has been approved by the Kerala Cabinet, has a lot to commend itself. The most significant feature of the new policy is the commendable attempt to make the state labour-friendly. A refreshing effort which is in glaring contrast...
By Arun Srivastava BJP’s only “Hindu Hridaya Samrat” (emperor of Hindu hearts) Lal Krishna Advani whose Rath Yatra blazed a bloody trail across India and who took BJP from a two-MP party to forming the first NDA government, is to be blamed for the current constitutional and democratic...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last week in the Indian politics has witnessed tectonic shifts, in terms of political alliances, increased questioning of the Governor’s independence, and the role of the Courts in ensuring that the legislative institutions do not lose their sanctity, and all happened in the backdrop...
By S. Sethuraman Apparently, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in command and control of the Centre and most of the States. has been working on ideas of reaching out to the panchayats, rural and urban, as well, with a single electoral roll enabling simultaneous elections at all levels –...
By Nantoo Banerjee Eleven out of 21 public sector banks are already under the Reserve Bank of India’s prompt corrective action (PCA). Left to the central bank, three to five more banks may join soon the framework. PCA generally restricts lending activities and network expansion of banks. The ...