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By Dr Arun Mitra For the last several years dense smog engulfs large part of north India, including Punjab, Haryana, western UP, parts of Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and NCR Delhi. This happens during the months of October and November when summer has ended and winter is about to...
By K. Raveendran Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s portfolio must be redesignated as minister for defence of Modi. This is what he does mostly these days either because he has not fully got over his sabbatical mood or he has nothing much else to do in the finance ministry....
By Aditya Aamir Things have slipped so far out of New Delhi’s hands in four and a half years, Srinagar has become the frontier. It’s as if the LoC has shrunk and today cuts through Lal Chowk. A change of Governors made no difference. Terror has taken on...
By Gyan Pathak In the midst of the BJP’s ridiculing Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his becoming stronger day by day, one thing is obvious – greater the ridicule, stronger he becomes. Ridicule has become BJP’s weakest weapon against Rahul, while the Congress president is increasingly resorting to...
By S. Sethuraman Signs of desperation for the majoritarian Modi government, as the country moves closer to the May 2019 Lok Sabha poll, are becoming manifest at both political and economic levels. The abrupt manner of taking into police custody a group of civil rights activists, noted scholars...
By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi was first to break the rule of not raking up domestic matters abroad and criticizing opposition parties. His narrative of demonizing Congress, beginning with his 2014 address to Indian diaspora in New York’s Madison square garden, drew the battle lines for...
By Conn Hallinan “Boxing the compass” is an old nautical term for locating the points on a magnetic compass in order to set a course. With the erratic winds blowing out of Washington these days, countries all over Asia and the Middle East are boxing the compass...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Treating a patient involves history taking, examination of the patient and diagnostic investigations as per the need before forming an opinion about the illness of the patient and the differential diagnosis. Only then can a doctor prescribe the treatment, medical or surgical as the...
By B. Sivaraman One of the prevailing myths about high-wage high-tech workers in India is that they are only concerned about their pecuniary benefits. The other associated myth is that their propensity to resort to direct action to safeguard their rights and interests is inversely proportional to their...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: During Election Commission’s three day visit to Bhopal several political parties expressed apprehension that the ruling party might pack polling booths with government employees having affiliation with the RSS. It may be mentioned here that Madhya Pradesh government had permitted state government...
By Nitya Chakraborty Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is steadily losing his battle with the opposition, especially the Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the facts on Rafale deal. Right now, he is not the Defence Minister but he is taking the most active part in defending the Government decision...
K R Sudhaman The All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17, conducted for the first time by the National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD), seems to have some flaws in its findings. One of the reasons could be that the survey was conducted, as pointed out...
By Sushil Kutty Arnab Goswami is easy to place. He is out-and out ‘nationalist’. Rajdeep Sardesai is difficult to make. When he claims he’s ‘anti-national’, he could be joking, sarcastic. The ‘five’ in the eye of the storm give contradictory signals. Sudha Bhardwaj is ‘inherently good’ and just...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit Germany and France in the month of September to attract investments in the state. She will be accompanied by a group of businessmen and will participate in meetings of the Chambers of Commerce in the two countries. Her ambition...
By Nitya Chakraborty An 8 year old girl dies in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahua village after being allegedly deprived of timely medical attention after demonetisation in November 2016 as her family had only old notes and had no time for exchange. On November 10, 2016, Teerthraji, 60 died...
By Aditya Aamir The fault-lines have deepened. Opposing armies are arms-ready. Supporters have marked themselves in watertight compartments. Poison-tipped verbal barbs cut across boundaries. Media, the ever-ready facilitator, is telling stories bolstering and blistering egos, chances. The BJP and Congress are at the throats of each other’s...
By Indira Jaising Lawyer Surendra Gadling successfully defending his clients under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) was arrested and thrown behind bars since June 6 of this year. Now lawyer Susan Abraham defending Gadling in Pune has seen her house in Mumbai raided and her husband Vernon...
By G. Srinivasan The commanding heights of the domestic economy as the public sector undertakings (PSUS) were once famously lionized in the Nehruvian socialist past have come a long way since the liberalisation of the Indian economy unleashed by the non-family but non-pareil Prime Minister Narashima Rao in...