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The Euro has been a disaster since its birth in 1999. Its monetary pathologies led to youth unemployment rates of 50-60% in Greece, Spain and the Italian Mezzogiorno. It gave a trillion-dollar windfall to German exporters at the expense of the hapless Club Med and amplified Berlin’s diktat over...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: All eyes are on the first session of the newly constituted Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, which begins in Bhopal on January 7. Besides the formal agenda of administering oath to the elected members, the house will also elect its Speaker. So far MP Vidhan Sabha...
By James M. Dorsey When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably wasn’t only thinking of Middle Eastern and other Islamic states such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. Increasingly, there is evidence that Indian Muslims, the...
By K. Raveendran Supreme Court chief justices leave their own imprint on the institution when they depart. Some of these are stamps of greatness, but there are also the good, bad and the ugly. Justice P N Bhagawati, for instance, left an indelible legacy by pioneering public interest...
By Aditya Aamir Prime ministerial ambitions are driving ‘gathbandhan’ politics. News is BSP and SP will not entertain Congress on the Uttar Pradesh stage, not in a one-act play. Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav prefer to tango in tandem, don’t fancy having a Rahul Gandhi-instep. The BSP says the...
Dr Arun Mitra The Kartarpur Corridor at the Indo Pak border is not just a religious symbol, it is a hope of millions of people across the border who have been denied the opportunity to visit their nears and dears, to have a glimpse of the places they...
By Harihar Swarup It is unfortunate that Triple Talaq Bill has again caught up in petty politics. It has a smooth passage in the Lok Sabha but got stuck up in the Rajya Sabha as BJP does not have majority in the Upper House. What is wrong if...
Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi be choosing another temple town to contest in this Lok Sabha elections? If believed to BJP MLA from Odisha’s Padampur assembly constituency, Pradip Purohit, the answer is Yes. He may lure voters in Puri instead of Varanasi, the constituency from which he contested in...
By Aditya Aamir After menstrual age women Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini’s wee-hour intrusion into the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, there’s need for a reckoning. One leading newspaper termed the accomplishment, “red-letter day” and “emancipation of women”. The two women broke a “long-standing taboo”, the paper declared. Hardly. The...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: A decision to suspend singing of Vande Matram at the state Secretariat and stop pension of MISA detainees have plunged Madhya Pradesh into a serious controversy. Both the decisions have given an opportunity to the BJP to train the guns on the newly formed Congress...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Fed up with sustained pressure from the allies in UP, the BJP may look for other alliance partners for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Significantly both the allies — Suhaildev Bhartiya Samaj Party and Apna Dal — are accusing the BJP central leadership of...
By B. Sivaraman “Dear Jeff, “We are troubled by the recent report from the American Civil Liberties union (ACLU) exposing our company’s practice of selling Amazon Web Service (AWS) Rekognition, a powerful facial recognition technology, to police departments and government agencies. …This will be another...
By Arun Srivastava Incongruities have appeared on the mahagathbandhan horizon over seat sharing among partners and new entrants to the alliance. These are likely to hurt the opposition unity and could even help BJP. The ‘rebellion’ of BSP chief Mayawati with SP chief Akhilesh extending oral support could...
By Shameem Faizee Perhaps never have the common people waited for the advent of the New Year as this year as they expected it to be a year of change. It is the change that they expect from the general elections due in 2019. Actually, people took time to...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A ‘Left-Right combination’ has left Kerala staggering, and turned the state into a political battleground. Ironically, the New Year began with a bang for the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. The Women’s Wall programme launched by the LDF was acclaimed as a runaway...
It seems prime minister Narendra Modi has pressed the reset button with the recent expansive interview with news agency ANI. He portrayed himself as a statesman who is committed to constitutional process. Televised on New Year Day, Modi defended his government’s record without bitterness to the opposition, even though...
By Aditya Aamir It was another ‘hartal’ in hartal-country Kerala on Thursday, the fourth since September 28, 2018, and the first of 2019. Petrified public transport buses are stranded in transport hubs across the state and even if shops and other commercial establishments are presenting a strong face, lack...
By Rahil Nora Chopra An old saying in Indian politics is that small and regional parties always favour a weaker government over a strong one. The late BSP Leader Kanshi Ram had always claimed that the party would flourish only when there is a weak government. With the...