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By B. Sivaraman Narendra Modi’s five-year record in office shows that he has confused the wave of support to him in 2014 as mass support for authoritarianism. It is now time to pay dearly for that. There may not be a visible strong anti-Modi wave yet but an undercurrent...
By Shameem Faizee After getting assured that the Sangh Parivar has got what it wanted on the Ayodhya issue, the Narendra Modi government has intensified new attacks on the basic structure of the Indian Constitution. In the last fortnight, the government officially floated the idea of handing over the...
By Nitya Chakraborty The die is cast. There is no escape route for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come out unscathed from the Rs. 58,000 crore Rafale scam. The report in The Hindu newspaper of February 8 makes it abundantly clear that it was the Prime Minister’s Office...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In politics, as in life, what matters the most is perception. And the perception fast gaining ground in Kerala is that the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has, once again, succumbed to the pressure of the Left Democratic Front(LDF) on the sensitive Sabarimala issue. The TDB’s...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command has a problem convincing the party state units especially Delhi, Haryana and Punjab regarding tie-up with AAP for 2019 Lok Sabha election. The party high command feels that if the party does not tie-up with AAP the BJP stands to...
By Gyan Pathak Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) are a major engine of growth and employment in the country, only next to Agriculture. However, lakhs of them have already closed due to cash crunch after demonetization order of November 2016. Majority of the units have been struggling for...
Congress To Hold Grand Show For Priyanka In Lucknow By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is all set to organise show of strength through road show as and when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrives Lucknow on February 10-11. Congress is preparing to organise grand reception of Priyanka Gandhi...
By C.J. Atkins A specter is haunting Donald Trump—the specter of socialism. A century and a half ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels opened their Communist Manifesto with a similar line. In their time, it was the rising workers’ movement and communist groups of Europe that were putting the...
By Arun Srivastava Why has the Commissioner of Kolkata police Rajeev Kumar suddenly acquired the importance in the political establishment of Delhi as well as Calcutta is really intriguing. Rajeev is supposed to be an intelligent and no-nonsense person. But this is certainly not the reason that everybody should...
By B. Sivaraman In his Interim Budget presented on 1 February 2019, the stopgap Finance Minister Mr. Piyush Goyal announced a scheme for a monthly pension of Rs. 3000 for unorganised workers whose numbers he put at 42 crore. The workers in the age-group of 18 to 55 years...
By Steve Sweeney Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro ruled out new presidential elections as he called on the international community to prevent a US-instigated civil war from erupting in the country. In a televised address, the president spoke of the strength of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Hugo...
By Sankar Ray None other than Gen. Austin Miller, the head of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, stated ingenuously that in Afghanistan “this is not going to be won militarily… This is going to a political solution”. He put it bluntly that the USA and its armed collaborators had failed...
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By Anjan Roy Finance minister Piyush Goyal’s exuberance over finally getting a grip on the banks’ bad debts might be a little too early. While the latest financial stability report of the Reserve Bank of India showing marginal decline in the non-performing assets (NPA) is a welcome sign, this...
By Conn Hallinan Keeping track of the Trump administration’s foreign policy is like trying to track a cat on a hot tin roof: We’re pulling out of Syria (not right away). We’re leaving Afghanistan (sometime in the future). Mexico is going to pay for a wall (no, it isn’t)....
By Sagarneel Sinha Currently, West Bengal is witnessing a political chaos with state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee staging dharna against CBI at Metro Channel in Kolkata accusing the centre for using the institutions to get political mileage ahead of the general polls. However, in the midst of all the...
By Arun Srivastava Going for the Congress in Bihar does not appear to be tough. The February 3 Jana Akansha Rally of Congress held after 28 years at Patna’s Gandhi maidan made it explicit that Congress has gained considerable ground in the state in the recent months and is...
By Amulya Ganguli Although Arun Jaitley has not been in the pink of health, he is still an indefatigable blogger for the BJP. With the use of catchy phrases such as “manufactured dissent” for those who returned their awards, to the “lies, short-lived lies and now further lies” of...