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By K R Sudhaman The Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Argentina in November end could not have come at a more opportune moment as the world’s top 20 nations can sit across the table to resolve the global turmoil arising out of US-China trade war that...
By B. Sivaraman Defying Essential Service Maintenance Act (ESMA) by workers has become as common today as the routine acts of invoking ESMA by governments of all hues. For instance, speculation was rife among the bank employees in October end that the government might invoke ESMA against...
By Dr Arun Mitra Life is a dynamic process, evolving continuously under the influence of various factors. No wonder, devoid of knowledge about the causes of natural happenings around, man attributed several events to be caused by some unknown powers. This gave rise to several practices around...
By Nitya Chakraborty In politics, even a week is not a long time. Only a few days back, the BJP leadership was upbeat at the fate of opposition unity against its all powerful Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the breakdown of the Congress-BSP alliances in the coming state...
Credit unions across the United States are facing a crisis of survival. Aging membership, lower lifetime member values, and a shrinking share of assets and deposits have many credit unions of all sizes wondering how to turn around and face the future head-on. Mergers and shrinking membership numbers mean...
By Mark Gruenberg Millions of voters, many of them Democrats including historic numbers of women, angry at the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and subsequent GOP actions trashing everyone but the 1 percent, are mobilizing in a blue wave. A fearful part of the Trump base, many...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress sources say state-level seat adjustments for the Assembly elections have been left to the respective state units and a grand alliance of opposition parties for the Lok Sabha would be taken up only after the five state assembly elections are over. But the...
By Subrata Majumder Gone are the days when the US sneezes, Japan gets a cold. Today, Japan can say ‘No’ to US. Despite USA’s grave concern over the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, the recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China shows Japanese willingness to...
By Nitya Chakraborty Bad days are staring at the Narendra Modi Government just six months before the scheduled elections to the Lok Sabha. The CBI administration is in tatters, both the top bosses of this premier investigation agency of the country, are fighting in courts, the RBI...
By Aditya Aamir If nobody has noticed so far, there’s something about Rahul Gandhi that has largely gone unnoticed. He is one of those individuals least “self-aware” among politicians. Bet the mirror is no great shakes for the Congress president. The stubble and the creased loose kurta-pyjama does...
By Amulya Ganguli In the absence of “achhey din”, the BJP has had no option but to turn to its standard formula aimed at consolidating the Hindu voters – the “core” section of the communal-minded as well as the generally conservative groups – by playing the temple card....
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Recent political developments in Madhya Pradesh seem to indicate an improvement in Congress chances in the coming Assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Indore, the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh, where he addressed a public meeting and held road shows, reportedly received...
By Nitya Chakraborty As expected, the far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party won last Sunday’s Presidential elections in Brazil securing 55.1 per cent of the total votes over his rival Fernando Haddad of the Leftwing Workers Party’s 44.8 per cent. The difference is...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP president Amit Shah has let the cat out of the bag at last. The pretence that the Sabarimala struggle is only to protect the rights of the believers has been dropped. Shah’s highly provocative speech at Kannur, the hotbed of CPI(M) politics,...
Supreme Court restricts the sale of crackers: Short of a complete ban, the Supreme Court restricted the sale of crackers by fixing the time of bursting of crackers, i.e., on Diwali and other religious festivals, crackers could be burst only from 8pm to 10pm, while on Christmas and on...
By Aditya Aamir When we are in a room, there will be ideas thrown about, diverse thoughts. Free speech and free thought. But you want conformity. Linear thought. Your view should prevail. The courts should read your mind and rule accordingly. Sabarimala or Ayodhya, it doesn’t matter. Babri...
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the unending economic stagnation and a crippling lack of resources are making it difficult for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to keep her populist commitments to displaced Rohingyas of Myanmar or suspected ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ in Assam. Ever in the forefront of the...
By Anjan Roy The Reserve Bank of India has plunged headlong into a battle with the government over its independence. Last week, the RBI had a meeting of its board of directors where the government and nominee directors have reportedly strongly criticised the central bank’s handling of the...