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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As the Assembly poll dates are coming nearer, the electoral scenario has become more complicated. One month ago it was thought that the poll battle will be fought between BJP and the alliance of Congress, BSP and SP. The hopes of such...
Gambling online is big business. And we mean seriously big business. Well over four and a half billion pounds was spent with online casinos during 2016-2017 according to reliable reporting. So how are the best and brightest of the online brands staying ahead of their competitors? The answer is...
By Anjan Roy So close to the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, India’s own Lehman moment had arrived, almost. Infrastructure Leasing and Finance Services, better known as ILF&S to wider public, had been teetering to a collapse because of its inability to honour...
By Amritananda Chakravorty Judging the judge is a difficult task. Should one only go by the judgments written by the judge or by her actions in strengthening or weakening the institutions? Sometimes, they overlap; sometimes they don’t. Looking at Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s tenure for more than one...
Aditya Aamir Tanusree Dutta and Nana Patekar is an ‘item’ though it will take a subpoena to make them admit that they are joined at the hip even if it’s to snipe at each other while failing to find allies. They are a couple because they happen to...
Saudi Arabia could not be the third-party strategic investor in the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is a flagship project called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as earlier it was announced by Islamabad. BRI is a pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping and it is...
Sushil Kutty Social activist Rahul Eshwar says he will lay out a mile-long ‘human carpet’ to welcome #RightToPray feminist antagonist Trupti Desai if and when she lands in Kerala to worship at Sabarimala. “She will have to step over our chests to reach Ayyappa,” he keeps telling Malayalam...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP and the Yogi Adityanath government are unnerved by the dent in image caused by country-wide reaction to killing of Apple executive Vivek Tewari by a policeman in the night when he failed to stop his car in the state capital on Friday night....
By Kalyani Shankar The 133-year-old Congress party in its heydays would have shuddered to think of a day that it would have to resort to crowd funding to augment its finances. The cash-rich party, which had been in power for 49 of the 70 years since Independence, is...
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to be setting over-ambitious targets on economic growth. First he said India would get back to double-digit annual growth soon. Lately he made a claim that India would become $5 trillion economy by 2022. Earlier he had promised...
By Amulya Ganguli It hasn’t taken long for the hollowness of the sermons from the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat — on accommodating Muslims in an inclusive society — to be exposed. First, an interfaith couple was attacked with a Muslim man being beaten up for being with...
By Nantoo Banerjee With Indian Rupee (INR) under continuous pressure due to shrinking hard currency reserves with the Reserve Bank, rising current account deficit and borrowings abroad, it may be high time that the government and the central bank take a relook at the liberalised rules on foreign...
Aditya Aamir Can’t get over the fact that Swami Ayyappa is no longer entitled to his brahmacharya; that the caveat ‘celibate for 41 days’ doesn’t hold anymore for the Ayyappa devotee. The majority judgement that crucified Lord Ayyappan was a verdict on brahmacharya. The case before the top...
By Sushil Kutty Millions these days are getting the feeling ‘stop the world, I want to get off.’ The poisonous binaries – far left versus far right, caste versus untouchable, Hindu versus Muslim, right to pray versus prepared to wait and women up against men — do...
Songkran, the world’s largest water fight, happens every year in Thailand. In April almost every shop in the country, from electrical stores to gardening centres, will start selling water pistols; and children will take to the streets, pistol in one hand and strange burning talcum powder in other, in...
In some parts of the turtles’ range they are harvested for their meat and eggs, despite protections the U.S. and some countries may place on them. Some populations have been severely impacted by the disease Fibropapillomatosis, a disease in which tumors grow on the turtles. As more and more...
It is doubtful to the highest level whether the general elections in Pakistan was fair, if take a look to what the Trump administration is saying. It has not yet confirmed the polls were free and fair. More to this, the State Department didn’t deploy election observers in India’s...
Will Pakistan improve ties with India after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan is crowned as the next prime minister of the country. It is believed the new government would like to resolve all disputes between the two nations including the issues related to Kashmir. Earlier today the former...