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By Sushil Kutty Those who have read or heard of the ‘Nun and the Bus Driver’ joke will know it is impossible to get a nun to “lie down in bed” with anyone unless it’s with God ‘himself’. Now, we know those who claim proximity to god, like...
Petition seeking ban on Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’ dismissed – The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’, which was being published in a magazine Mathrubhumi in a serialised fashion and was discontinued after the petition. The main challenge was regarding a passage...
By G. Srinivasan Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar caused a flutter early this month when he remarked that the former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s efforts to clean up the mess in the country’s banking system to prune the gargantuan non-performing assets (read loans) or what is ubiquitously...
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loom large on China’s backdoor entry through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is feared to be propitious of a Chinese trade trap after Trump entered into a shocking trade war against China. Currently, India is susceptible to Chinese dumping of goods, which...
By Victor Grossman The events in the Saxon city of Chemnitz recently were truly frightening. The sight of Nazi-tattooed thugs growling threats as they stormed through the city center, chasing and beating up presumed “foreigners,” journalists or any other perceived foes, invoked memories of Charlottesville a year...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. September 11 was also a day of terror—in Chile in 1973. “I’ve been through this before,” Chilean author Ariel Dorfman wrote of the 2001 U. S. terror day. “The world will never be the same,” he recalls Chileans saying after their September 11....
By Aditya Aamir Jocko Street returned from the front door all smiles and lollipop lore written all over his ruddy face. Alex Smart on holiday asked why all the glamour at 11 in the morning and Jocko did his li’l-bow routine, waving a folded something in his hand....
Aadhaar card data should be kept secured and safe. It should not be provided easily and to everyone. This is the reason the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has come up with the concept of a Virtual Aadhaar ID (VID). Getting VID is simple. It is a masked...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Opposition to the SC and ST Act has created insurmountable difficulties to the ruling party BJP in Madhya Pradesh to the extent that it is hampering its poll eve campaign. How much nervous BJP is can be gauged by the fact that the party...
North Korea has written a new letter to Donald Trump asking for a second meeting and it is learned the White House is looking for a date. Since June 12 summit both the leaders are in talks about nuclear programme of North Korea. However, the discussions have been criticized...
By Amritananda Chakravorty “Finally!” “Relieved!” “Long Overdue!” these were the reactions from the members of the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and inter-sex), after the historic judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar & Ors. vs. Union of India [Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 76 of...
By Barun Das Gupta Last week Nepal signed a Transit and Transport Agreement with China which will give the land-locked country access to four Chinese seaports. These are: Tianjin (3276 kms from Nepal), Liyanyugang (3379 kms), Shengzen (3064 kms) and Shenjiang (2755 kms). As against these, the Kolkata...
By Paras Nath Singh After months of speculations that were not entirely unjustified, Justice Ranjan Gogoi is at last set to adorn judicial firmament as the 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI). The incumbent CJI, Dipak Misra has officially recommended the name of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the senior-most...
By Aditya Aamir Amit Shah says the BJP will rule for 50 years, i.e., till 2069 from 2019. By then Amit Shah will be history as will Narendra Modi along with an entire generation. Whether Modi and Shah get to become statues on the Sabarmati will depend on...
By Arun Srivastava Uncertain electoral prospect has caused trepidation to the BJP top leadership, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his close aide Amit Shah and the element of desperation was manifest in his speech at the executive meet of the party in Delhi. Though the senior leaders...
By Amulya Ganguli For a politician like Mamata Banerjee, who is aspiring to move from state politics to play a national role and even become the prime minister, the recent past has been eminently forgettable. The snub which she has received from her former anti-BJP Federal Front...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is highly admirable that India’s public sector oil giants — ONGC and OIL — continue to vigorously using their experience and skill to explore new oil and gas reserves within the country. Oil exploration is considered to be a big financial and technological gamble...
By Mark Gruenberg Two of the Senate’s top supporters of workers, Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, have gone on the attack against corporate subsidies and irresponsibility. And though their legislation will go nowhere in the GOP-run 115th Congress, the two lawmakers are laying down...