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By Girish Linganna In the 1964 James Bond movie, ‘Goldfinger’, the bad guy, Auric Goldfinger, realized he could not just steal the huge amount of gold in Fort Knox, a famous US Army post in Kentucky, known primarily for housing a large portion of the USA’s gold reserves. So,...
By Anjan Roy The interim budget presented on February 1 is a hopeful document, pinning its faith on the continued buoyancy of the Indian economy. At the outset, the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, should be complimented for presenting the shortest and a crisp budget speech, instead of a meandering...
By K Raveendran Finance Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim budget speech sounded like a well-crafted compendium of compliments to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was as though she was singing her swan song, and an ode to the greatness of her mentor, rather than on what the government planned to do...
By K R Sudhaman The interim budget 2024-25 presented ahead of the General elections in April-May is slightly different from previous interim budgets in the sense it made no major tax announcements keeping in line with the convention. What is significant is that the budget speech was short, less...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Interim Union Budget 2024-25 for railways neither generated much hope for betterment of railways operations nor services to its commuters, though Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced three major economic railway corridor programmes to be implemented, and 40,000 normal bogies to be converted to...
By Sushil Kutty Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s sixth budget turned out to be an out and out election and political document. But it has still not sunk in fully that this could be Sitharaman’s last budget unless her “I’ll be back in July” is like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the...
By Arun Srivastava In the middle class residential areas of Kolkata and people are seen animatedly discussing the strained relation between Mamata Banerjee and Rahul Gandhi and also trying to decode the reasons for Mamata’s obstinacy towards Congress, especially her intransigent attitude towards Rahul. Her outright denial of the...
By P. Sudhir Bihar chief minister and JD(U) leader, Nitish Kumar, has somersaulted again. After leaving the BJP and forming a Mahagathbandhan government with the RJD in August 2022, Nitish has now defected back to the side of the BJP. In India’s parliamentary history, Nitish Kumar has created a...
By Girish Linganna Pakistan has accused India, its long-standing enemy, of conducting unlawful killings within that country’s borders. It claimed having “evidence” of links between “Indian agents” and the assassination of two terrorists. This accusation comes at a time when there is a growing worry that the recent increase...
By Francesca De Benedetti Even before this June’s elections to the European parliament, the EU has lost its center. It seems the bloc can no longer count on the EU-wide liberal political group, known as Renew, as the needle of the scales. The most recent example was France’s president...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There has been suspicion of rigging elections by BJP government led by PM Narendra Modi, which just gained credence the way mayoral election in the Union Territory of Chandigarh was finally conducted and result declared on January 30. Votes polled for INDIA bloc’s candidates were...
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi and Amit Shah’s latest masterstroke might have gone awry, as their operation “destroy INDIA bloc” seems to have caused blowback and impaired their own interest. In their quest to project themselves as adroit political Svengalis, they have harmed their own cause more than inflicting...
By Sushil Kutty Take the police away for 15 minutes and… Similarly, take the CBI, ED and the Income Tax Department out of the Centre’s equation and people will see through the hollowness of the Modi regime’s allegations of corruption against INDI-Alliance leaders in no time at all. It...
By Girish Linganna Elon Musk announced that the first person has received a Neuralink brain implant, which is a significant step forward in the advancement of “brain-computer interface” technology. This technology has the potential to assist individuals with conditions like paralysis to interact with their environment. In a recent...
By Krishna Jha It is again January 30, the day Gandhiji, the architect of our freedom that was achieved with his non-violence and truth, was killed. He was killed because he fought for Hindu and Muslim unity. He was killed because he opposed the partition. It was a deeply...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is the Congress party in Kerala mortally scared of the Narendra Modi Government? The answer to that question is a resonant No if the party’s stand on various issues is any indication. The latest instance of the Congress’s pusillanimity is evident from its refusal to...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav If you’ve noticed that more often than not your Ola or Uber driver has a Muslim name, you are not alone. Technology is a big leveller and it empowers people irrespective of who the user is. Keeping a portion of the population whether women or...
By Tirthankar Mitra Come February 8, Pakistan goes for the national elections to elect a new Parliament . But the run up to the day of reckoning has turned out to be a lacklustre affair with marked similarities and some differences with similar previous electoral occasions. Some ringside newcomers...