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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...
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Kerala Police arrest Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused of multiple rapes of a nun? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Keralites. Interrogation of the Bishop, who had been asked to appear before the probe team in Kochi,...
By Arun Srivastava Conjectures are making rounds in the political circles about Amit Shah and Narendra Modi salvaging the electoral prospect of their party and ensuring its return to power after the 2019 general elections. The assumption is that they will manage to carry the urban middle class voters...
By Raju Kumar Congress remaining out of power in the state for last 15 years, is now adopted the strategy of “do or die”. The Congress party, which has been consistently sluggish, has been appearing to be very energetic from the last few months. In this regime, Congress has...
By Amritananda Chakravorty President of India has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India, and he would assume office on 3rd October, 2018, a day after the current Chief Justice Dipak Mishra retires. The prelude to any new Chief Justice being sworn in is often...
By Gyan Pathak Waiting for Modi’s promised ‘Good Days’ is now like waiting for Godot. The Human Development Index 2018 released recently by UNDP shows that India lagged far behind the majority of countries in health, education, and gender development despite its being the fastest growing economy of the...
By Aditya Aamir Everybody is talking of whether or not Congress and the rest of the Opposition made a mistake not accepting the invitation to attend the RSS meet. But ask about the timing of the meet, why now? Therein, probably, lies a story, or maybe two. One of...
By Amulya Ganguli Chun chun ke nikaloonga (we’ll throw them out one by one). This was BJP president Amit Shah’s dire warning to the ghuspetiyas or the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. They should be killed like kira, makaura (insects), threatened a BJP leader of Telangana, Raja Singh. Senior BJP...
By Aditya Aamir Okay, here’s the deal Franco. You step down for the time being and we deal with the nun. The spotlight is on you and our mission is to spread the light in Punjab. Evangelism in Punjab has stuck where it started 200 years ago with the...
By Sushil Kutty “If a girl is dressed decently, a boy will not look at her in the wrong way.” That was Manoharlal Khattar before he took charge as Haryana Chief Minister in October 2014. “If you want freedom, why don’t they just roam around naked? Freedom has to...
By K R Sudhaman The joke going around social media is that an economic reporter wanted to interview finance minister Arun Jaitley. But Jaitley said he would talk only on cricket. The reporter, happy that he got at last a chance to ask Jaitley some questions if he should...