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Akhilesh Yadav Surprises With Soft Hindutva Card

By Pradeep Kapoor   LUCKNOW: Now it seems to be Akhilesh Yadav’s turn to play the soft Hindutva card. With the Lok Sabha elections not far, the Samajwadi Party national president has surprised everyone with his move.   Akhilesh Yadav has announced that if his party was voted to...

Aug 25 · >

Kuldip Nayar’s Death At 95 Signals The Closing Of An Era

By Angshukanta Chakraborty   Veteran journalist and a one-time editor of The Indian Express and The Statesman, former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and prolific author — Kuldip Nayar — breathed his last in the wee hours of Thursday, August 23, in a New Delhi hospital. He was...

Aug 24 · >

PM’s Red Fort Announcements Barely Touch Core Issues

  By Dr. Arun Mitra   There were high expectations from the Prime Minister on healthcare issues while addressing the nation from Red Fort on 15th August. His announcements of building toilets, Ayushman Bharat, and opening up of more AIIMS do not fulfill the requirements for universal comprehensive health...

Aug 24 · >

North East Heading Towards Bitter Political Battle

By Gyan Pathak   Following the main election manifesto 2014, the BJP had come out with a supplementary promise about the North East, which said that the party “will take initiatives for the permanent solution of the long pending issues of the Bodos and other tribals of Assam, the...

Aug 24 · >

ILO’S India Wage Report: Some Hits, Many Misses

  By B. Sivaraman   How do you rate a report released in August 2018 by an authoritative UN agency like ILO exclusively on the wage scenario in India that makes no scrutiny of the Code of Wages, 2017 that was tabled in parliament in August 2017 itself and...

Aug 24 · >

Mamata Creates A Silicon Valley For Bengalis

By Rahil Nora Chopra   Mamata Banerjee wants Bengal to have technology hubs on the pattern of Bengaluru and Hyderabad. She has just inaugurated the Silicon Valley in Rajrahat area near Kolkata in which Infosys and Reliance Jio have already announced huge investments. The technology hub is expected to...

Aug 23 · >

Beef Over $100 Million From The Empty Quarter

By Sushil Kutty   ‘Strings attached’ is what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government wanted to avoid while making it a policy in 2004 not to accept foreign government aid at times of disasters. Several small and big disasters have hit India since then and Kerala floods 2018 is a...

Aug 23 · >

Imran Gets Sidhu To Bat For Pakistan

By Aditya Aamir   Congress is like ‘Get off my lawn’ since May 2014. Congress without power is like jail without parole. Jailbreak, the only option. Overpower the jail superintendent. That is Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid in 2015. They crossed the border to lay out the plan...

Aug 23 · >

Meaning Of Being Atal Behari Vajpayee

By Arun Srivastava   While India grieves the demise of its beloved statesman-leader Atal Behari Vajpayee, political leaders, ruling elites and the corporate board rooms are weighing its implications for the electoral prospects of BJP and Modi in the 2019Lok Sabha polls. This is particularly in view of the...

Aug 23 · >

Why ‘Make In India’ Suddenly Sounds Jarring To Modi Ears

By Subrata Majumder   Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech surreptitiously missed the Make in India story, while he was exuberant about all other major schemes. Make in India was supposed to be his flagship scheme, as it was projected as the main driver of job creation in...

Aug 23 · >

IMF Prescribes New Medicines To Improve Macro Economy

By G. Srinivasan   The Modi government is heading to seek a renewal of mandate before long to implement its triple credo of perform, reform and transform for another five years beginning the summer of 2019, having subjected the economy to disruptive demonetization of high denomination currencies in 2016...

Aug 23 · >

Delhi High Court To Hear Plea Against Aadhaar Over Data Leak

Following a petition filed by a law professor against Aadhaar the Delhi High Court has agreed to hear a plea and the next hearing is scheduled to be on November 19. Meanwhile, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), body behind the digital ID providing to more than a...

Aug 22 · >

Why Indians Must Introspect Secular Twisters

Sushil Kutty   Studies and reports supported with empirical and other data can be interpreted in whichever way ideologues want. Give the interpretations a meaning and slant that mirrors theirs. Data-driven IndiaSpend, in the opposite ideological camp to that of the party currently ruling at the Centre, has put...

Aug 21 · >

Pullout From China’s Regional Partnership A Bad Move

By Subrata Majumder   Amidst a media buzz about India withdrawing from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), eyebrows are raised over the timing of the withdrawal and its impact on the country. It is an irony that while RCEP – the largest trade block comprising 16 nations –...

Aug 21 · >

Supreme Court Verdict On Confession Of Accused Is Controversial

  By Amritananda Chakravorty   In a surprising judgment with wide ramifications, the Supreme Court, in a two judge bench decision, has overturned its longstanding jurisprudence on the issue of inadmissibility of confession of accused in the police custody. In a recent case of criminal appeal, the Supreme Court...

Aug 21 · >

Rain-Battered Kerala Picking Up The Pieces

By P. Sreekumaran   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The worst, hopefully, is over. Rain-ravaged Kerala is getting its breath back. Petrified people are picking up the pieces of their lives shattered by the deluge of death and destruction.   With the raging waters receding and rain easing, the focus has shifted to...

Aug 21 · >

Vajpayee Leaves Behind Challenge Of Good Governance

By S Sethuraman   Whatever successes the Modi Government claims for its first four years, here and there, its major failures  start with its brand of “Maximum Governance and Minimum Government”, which primarily  did not ensure the “achhe din” promised in 2014. Nor, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government...

Aug 21 · >

Simultaneous Polls May Not Be A Reality By 2019

By Kalyani Shankar   With the BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi advocating ardently ‘One Nation, One Poll,’ there are questions in the political circles whether it is possible or feasible before the next Lok Sabha polls, and if not, why are they talking about it. Senior BJP...

Aug 21 · >
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