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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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...
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...