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By Aditya Aamir How about this gentleman returning to tending cows and offering prayers and platitudes to his followers in Gorakhpur Mutt? Clothed in saffron does not make a good administrator. And doesn’t it strike that it’s not a political outfit ruling Uttar Pradesh but a religious...
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved to Calcutta High Court to seek legal permission for its high-profile Rath Yatra in Bengal that is scheduled to kickstart on December 7 from Cooch Behar. The rally will be conducted by the state unit of the party under banner Save Democracy Rally....
By Nitya Chakraborty Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly called as AMLO took over as the new President of Mexico, on December 1 becoming the first President in the country with strong leftwing views and having an ambitious pro=people programmes like British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin and...
By K R Sudhaman Borrowing a quote from Charles Dickens in his Tale of Two Cities, Indian banking industry witnessed best of times as well as worst of times; wisdom and foolishness; light and darkness, spring of hope and winter of despair; banks had everything as well as...
By Arun Srivastava Desperation is writ large on the faces of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. The prospect of defeat at the 2019 Lok Sabha elections stares at their faces. For more than a year Bhagwat has been cautioning Modi to listen...
Following the announcement of Sushma Swaraj for not contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in 2019 the Union Minister Uma Bharti too echoed the same for herself. Bharti said she has opted to devote her time for Ram temple in Ayodhya and cleanliness of river Ganga for next one-and-a-half...
By Sushil Kutty Onion prices have been plummeting these last few days and farmers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh are dumping onions in the streets. Partly, it’s their fault. They shouldn’t have heaped last year’s produce in storage bins. Now, with the new produce in, there’s an onion...
Report sought from the Chhattisgarh government on Nandini Sundar’s plea for quashing of FIR – The Chhattisgarh government had registered a case against Professor Nandini Sundar and three others for the murder of a tribal man in the Sukma district of the State. Sundar has now filed a...
By Amritananda Chakravorty Justice Kurian Joseph retired from the Supreme Court on 29th November, 2018, after a distinguished tenure of almost six years, being elevated to the Supreme Court in March, 2013. On 28th November, 2018, he was part of a three judge bench in deciding a criminal...
By Arun Srivastava The electoral prospect of the Indian left is not so bad as it is being projected. In 2014 the left might have suffered the severe jolt ever since its electoral debut, but the 2019 is all set to witness resurgence of the left. This...
By Kalyani Shankar Will Congress President Rahul Gandhi emerge as a challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls? He could, if the fortune smiles on him and if the Congress improves its position in the five state assembly polls currently going...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Thirty-four years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy continue to demand proper rehabilitation and adequate compensation besides proper medical treatment for ailments caused by the toxic leak. Fifteen years of the BJP government has been the...
By P Abhimanyu The entire officers and workers of BSNL are going on an indefinite strike from December 10, 2018. The All Unions and Associations of BSNL (AUAB), the umbrella organisation of all the associations of the officers and unions of workers, is spearheading the strike. ...
BJP president Amit Shah warned intruders to the country on Monday saying they will be thrown out of India if his party comes to power again in 2019. Shah was addressing a public rally in Rajasthan. He appealed the people to return Vasundhara Raje government in the state and...
By Arun Srivastava Even while fighting the judicial onslaught against him and his government with his back to the wall, a group of senior leaders have initiated a move to replace Nitish Kumar. They fear that BJP will be the ultimate loser if it fights the 2019 polls...
By Aditya Aamir By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)’ is a leftist group trying to push members of the caravan of Central American asylum seekers into the United States. And ‘by all means necessary’ is quite the motto of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in his quest to...
By Anjan Roy The GDP controversy has brought out all facets of truth: truth, half-truths and unstated half truths. To understand what has happened one has to refer to slide 7 of the presentation on the revised GDP figures that the CSO has released. Until 2011-12, GDP was...
By B. Sivaraman The November 30 rally by India’s lakhs of farmers thronging New Delhi was unique in many respects. Unlike the earlier attempts at snatching national spotlight, the entire galaxy of opposition leaders—from Rahul Gandhi to Arvind Kejriwal, from Sitaram Yechury to Sudhakar Reddy and Dipankar...