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By Aditya Aamir By the time laws are placed, excised and strengthened to satisfy every minority group in the assembly line, it will be the end of humankind. The LGBTIQ community has been fortunate gaining acceptance in most parts of the world and now in India, too, with...
By Emile Schepers On Saturday, September 1, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil voted six to one that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the presidential candidate of the Workers’ Party (Partido do Trabalho) in the October elections this year, must be barred from running because...
By Aditya Aamir The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is only the messenger boy. The order to media to stop using ‘Dalit’ for people categorized as Scheduled Castes came from a high court. The British had coined ‘Scheduled Castes’ in 1935 to sum up a bunch of humankind...
By Anjan Roy The country’s patience is being tried by the rising price of petroleum and diesel. As the prices are scaling higher, the one question almost on every lip is: what is the government doing? Can’t the price be brought down? The rising prices are being encashed...
By G. Srinivasan If health is wealth, are we spending sufficiently to maintain the basic health needs of millions of our citizens in the world’s fifth biggest economy as our politicos make braggadocio with little qualms? In his Independence day speech delivered with fervent zest Prime Minister Narendra...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is facing threat from uncle Shivpal Yadav, who is now working to cause a split in the crucial Yadav and Muslim votes ahead of the crucial 2019 general elections. Akhilesh Yadav, who has said he is willing...
By K R Sudhaman The unusual spurt in diesel and petrol prices as a result of deadly cocktail of surging global oil prices and falling rupee value signals danger to the economy, now on the path to recovery clocking 8 per cent GDP in the first quarter of...
Inclusion of 10% names in NRC may be re-verified – The Supreme Court has asked the State Coordinator of NRC to submit a comprehensive report indicating the feasibility including the time taken and the advantages/disadvantages that amy accrue if the aforesaid modifications/change of legacy documents is permitted.Accordingly, the date...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last one week witnessed tumultuous events pertaining to the state of democracy and the exercise of freedom of expression in this country. On 28th August, 2018, a team of Pune police conducted coordinated raids in almost seven states, and raided the houses and offices...
By Kalyani Shankar India celebrates September 5 as ‘Teacher’s Day’ every year remembering late philosopher-teacher President Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. The country honours best teachers on this day. This year too the best teacher awards have been announced but for the first time, the scheme has been totally changed to...
By Aditya Aamir The Bharatiya Janata Party may lose power in 2019. If not there will be a different Prime Minister at the helm. BJP’s allies in the NDA are likely to ask for their pound of flesh and that could be Narendra Modi’s head on a...
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the local bodies elections in Karnataka officially declared on September 3 have shown that the Congress is in a formidable position in the semi urban areas of the state as the leading party as against the BJP and with JD(S) alliance for...
Dear Mr. Narendra Modi Sahab, Greetings We in Pakistan really appreciate the highly positive gesture of your telephonic call to our Prime Minister to congratulate him on his elections victory and the even bigger gesture of writing a very friendly letter, expressing very positive and warm sentiments in a...
By Sushil Kutty BJP discard Arun Shourie is painting a black picture for the Opposition: Forget old arguments, grudges, get together, field one candidate against BJP in each constituency or kiss democracy goodbye. Scaring the pants off bhakt-baiters and #UrbanNaxals, who will do full shashtang before any god...
By Amulya Ganguli The second hearing by the Supreme Court of the case against the so-called “Urban Naxals” will not only determine whether they pose a genuine threat or whether the police charges against them are an attempt by the government to create a smokescreen of terror...
By Nantoo Banerjee A two rupee fall in its exchange value with US$ — say, from Rs. 69 to Rs. 71 for a $ — may cost the country an additional external payment burden of nearly Rs.1,50,000 crore, in Rupee terms, on account of this year’s total import...
By Aditya Aamir Who says the sarkari babu doesn’t have spine? Wait till he retires and watch him show backbone. And it doesn’t matter if an Emergency-like situation prevails, which is worse than Emergency. Ask the 48 retired civil servants who have written an open letter to the...
By Mark Gruenberg Labor and its allies in the Democratic Party in United States have built ground operations through which they plan to turn out record numbers of voters this November to take Congress out of the hands of the Republicans. In 2018, they may be right,...