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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The sexual harassment complaint against P K Sasi, the CPI(M) MLA representing the Shoranur constituency, has put the party in a tight spot. What has invited people’s wrath is that the party took almost three weeks – that is the public perception although...
By Gyan Pathak On the eve of the assembly election, Rajasthan has become a political hot-pot in which both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress are performing a tight-rope walk. Communal polarization has somewhat weakened giving way to a stronger caste polarization on the issue of reservation....
By K Raveendran The BJP’s disconnect with Dalits is well-known. So, nobody can be faulted for seeing a sinister move in the I&B ministry’s advisory to media units not to use the term Dalit while referring to Scheduled Castes. The Dalit word has been posing the ruling establishment...
By Harihar Swarup The tenure of Justice Dipak Misra, who retires as Chief Justice of India on October 2, was mired in controversies, but he firmly stood against all the odds and had ultimately his way. The Opposition led by the Congress sought to bring an impeachment motion...
By Aditya Aamir Earthworms are worming from under the soil and committing mass suicide in Wayanad, north Kerala. The earth is getting too hot for them, say some folks, post the battering earth got from unprecedented rains and floods. There are lots of people around the world who...
By Ben Chacko Labour has changed — and for the better, MPs and trade unionists told Tony Blair on September 7 after the former prime minister launched a broadside against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. The war criminal behind the invasion of Iraq lamented that Labour was “a different type...
United States President Donald Trump said growing economies like China and India should grow faster than any other developing nation, but subsidies received by them from Washington should be stopped. Trump added addressing to a fundraiser event in North Dakota’s Fargo city, “We have some of these countries that...
By Dr. Arun Mitra A ‘senior citizen’ means any person being a citizen of India who has attained the age of sixty years or above. Population Census 2011 revealed that there are nearly 104 million elderly persons (aged 60 years or above) in India; the number of...
By B. Sivaraman Nearly five lakh employees were stunned early this year when the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) responded to their demand of 25 percent wage increase with a counter offer of a mere 2 percent. It took a two-day strike on 30 & 31 May 2018 to...
By Sankar Ray There is no denying that Pakistan’s charismatic Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi will leave no nerve unstrained to carve a niche to prove that he is not just another premier while it will be naïve to speculate that he plans to get out of the...
By Subrata Majumder Dichotomy looms on the bounce back in GDP growth in 2018-19 and its impact on job creation. Critics are puzzled that while the upturn was on account of growth in manufacturing, it has not made any proportional impact in terms of job creation. During...
By S. Sethuraman Telangana Chief Minister, Mr K Chandrasekara Rao, a showman to claim unparalleled but untested achievements for his young State, has broken the ice for impending battles for 2019 in the South, where the Modi-led BJP has planned a major foray to earn a pan Indian...
By Sushil Kutty On September, the Supreme Court read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and people with placards saying ‘Love is genderless’ took over the streets. Today, as sure as Tuesday follows Monday and Sunday precedes Monday, ‘what will happen?’ has become the tone...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Vasundhara Raje’s statewide yatra was greeted with black flags and stones when it reached Jodhpur. Upset by the reception from the people of Jodhpur, the chief minister broke the yatra citing the death of Atal Behari Vajpayee. But the next phase of the yatra...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The heart-warming unity shown by both the government and the opposition in getting the Kerala Assembly to pass a unanimous resolution promising unflinching support for rehabilitation on a war footing in the wake of the state’s devastating floods came as a breath of...
By Chauncey K. Robinson History continues to be made across the United States of America as an unprecedented number of women of color, particularly Black women, are running for and winning public office. Ayanna Pressley has added her story to this game-changing moment in time, with her victory...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: From the manner in which incidents of political nature are being reported from various areas of Madhya Pradesh there is every reason to apprehend that November Vidhan Sabha elections may not be entirely peaceful affair. Things are taking such a serious turn that...
By Arun Srivastava Even a motley alliance of RJD and Congress is sufficient to wreck the electoral prospect of the JD(U) chief and chief executive of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, the person who barely a year back was perceived and projected as the political face of the anti-BJP...