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By K Raveendran Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan claims to have sent a report to the PMO giving details of major bank default candidates, but apparently there was no action taken on it. There are two possible scenarios regarding the report. On perusal of the report Modi may have...
By Aditya Aamir What do you say if the decision to cancel the UNGA meet with Pakistan is compared with Smriti Irani’s attempt to trample on freedom of expression with her diktat to PIB and mainstream media? In both cases Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to step in as...
By Harihar Swarup If the 92-year-old RSS is seeking an image makeover, it is a welcome sign. The wind of change is blowing all over the world, and it is time the RSS, should also bring about reforms and shed its image of an obscurantist organization. Those who have...
By Sushil Kutty Bad behaviour is repeated until it is punished. With serial rapists and Pakistan, there is never a singular incidence of any really bad behaviour. Bad behaviour is in their DNA. But seems like Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided enough of the punishment, let’s give Pakistan another...
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar has finally succeeded in getting his second in Command. Induction of his former electoral strategist Prashant Kishor into the Janata Dal United was initially presumed as a move by Nitish to work out a blue print of working policy and also to evolve a...
By Dr. Arun Mitra The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. The United Nations invites all nations and people to...
By Mala Jay It’s always nice to have someone from the outside to give good counsel and issue timely warnings. Especially if, like Raghuram Rajan, the outsider is actually an insider who knows the system inside-out. The advice and warnings are all the more valuable in times of crisis,...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Politics can be unpredictable. It can be cruel, too. Ask Kerala Congress(M) chairman K M Mani. He will nod in vigorous agreement. Till the other day, Mani was sitting pretty. Three vigilance reports had given him a clean chit in the bar bribery case. The...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Why is BSP national president Mayawati so scared of Chandra Shekhar Ravan of Bheem Sena, who was recently released by the Yogi government? The manner in which Mayawati reacted to her being referred as buaji (aunt) by Chandra Shekhar Ravan speaks for the total antipathy...
By Subrata Majumder While all the major countries, pinched by Trump’s unilateral high tariffs, took retaliatory measures by raising the tariff on imports from USA, India went one step forward and two steps back. Twice, it suspended its decision to impose high tariff on 29 items from the US....
By Aditya Aamir Okay! No need for anybody to talk on behalf of the holy cow. Joyful Swami Nityananda, of the “in compromising position with an actress” fame, says within the year he will have cows and bulls talking! In chaste Sanskrit and hoary Tamil (Imagine the Jallikattu!). Not...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has made Dalit leader of Haryana and Rajya Sabha MP Kumari Selja as the chairperson of the Congress screening committee for the distribution of tickets in Rajasthan. Four national secretaries are given the responsibility of 200 seats, that is 50 seats to each. Although the...
By Nitya Chakraborty Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has done something unprecedented. She is openly defaming her Ministry’s high tech undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for its technological incompetence to defend the selection of Anil Ambani’s new company as the offset partner in the Rafale deal. What is shocking is that...
By Sushil Kutty Judge Bret M. Kavanaugh and Bishop Franco Mulakkal. Two powerful men. Both wear a collar and for the time being both look collared. Arrayed against them are two women and #MeToo. A Catholic nun of Kerala and a professor in Palo Alto University, California. The women...
By Ben Chako BRITAIN is on the brink of “social collapse” after “eight years of uninterrupted austerity” caused by brutal Tory spending cuts, Labour council leaders warned. Twenty-six leaders of Labour-controlled councils have signed an open letter calling on the government to “recognise the catastrophic impact” that austerity has...
By S. Sethuraman Ethics and morals get pushed under the carpet as the country makes a seamless stride into the 2019 Lok Sabha Poll Campaign, the ruling majoritarian BJP bracing itself more in a fire-fighting mode while its hated adversary, the Congress is engaged in digging for more scams...
i. Supreme Court modifies the guidelines of Section 498A, IPC: The Supreme Court has modified the directions issued by it in Rajesh Sharma v Uttar Pradesh, which were aimed at controlling the misuse of Section 498A, but ended up diluting the whole law. The Court felt that the directions...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Congressmen are celebrating the successful visit of Congress president Rahul Gandhi to Bhopal, angry demonstration against chief minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan at many places are causing worry for the BJP. On the day Rahul Gandhi was being welcomed by the cheering crowd...