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By Sankar Ray Stupefying poll-pundits, the 65-year-old cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (meaning Pakistan Movement for Justice) has ‘out-Bruce-d Robert Brucc by racing up to the coveted seat of Pakistan premier after a 22-year battle. The first cricketer to be elected as Prime Minister in the history...
By Anjan Roy The outcome of the meeting of European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump clearly showed that when it comes to diplomacy and maneuvering, old world Europe still has the trump card over the new world United States. Trump had announced in rage...
Will Pakistan improve ties with India after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan is crowned as the next prime minister of the country. It is believed the new government would like to resolve all disputes between the two nations including the issues related to Kashmir. Earlier today the former...
By Rahil Nora Chopra. The SP-BSP alliance wants to give only 8 seats to Congress in UP in return of which it expects the party to accommodate alliance candidates in a few seats in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan Assembly election and at least 2 parliamentary seats to each...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Though there are bright chances of electoral understanding between Congress and BSP for the Assembly election, there is going to be much haggling over seat allocation. Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath has announced that the Congress will set up candidates in 200 Vidhan Sabha...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national president Mayawati and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav are moving ahead cautiously towards an alliance to defeat BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In separate meetings with party workers, press statements and media interactions, both leaders have criticised the BJP governments at...
By Aditya Aamir ‘I got the money honey, if you got the time.’ That could have been Imran Khan’s pick-up line, before he got old enough to become a serious politician, except that the playboy cricketer did not have to throw money at a willing willowy for the honeypot....
It is doubtful to the highest level whether the general elections in Pakistan was fair, if take a look to what the Trump administration is saying. It has not yet confirmed the polls were free and fair. More to this, the State Department didn’t deploy election observers in India’s...
By Sushil Kutty Tom Horn was a tracker of renegade Red Indians and cattle rustlers. He had powerful fists and was a marksman of note. Horn wrote his story and the publishers put on the cover the words ‘Written by Himself’. It was quaint. Now, there are lots of...
By Aditya Aamir Vigilantism remains the focus. Talking of the cow vigilante, RSS honcho Indresh Kumar speaks like he owns not only the cow but also the human being, those with Indian citizenship – lock, stock and stomach. He consigns the bovine to the idiot category. That the cow...
By G. Srinivasan Being the world’s largest rail network with 67,368 km of route length spread across the continental-sized country of ours, the Indian Railways (IRs) today is on the threshold of a challenging phase ahead, as it has taken multiple tasks on hand with no matching resources to...
By Amulya Ganguli Indian elections are generally boisterous affairs with the atmosphere of a carnival. However, the chances are that the zing will be absent during the forthcoming state assembly elections and the general election next year. The excitement will be only when the results are announced even if...
By K. Raveendran Global ratings agency Standard & Poors has expressed disappointment over the pace of reforming the Indian banking sector as part of the programme to address the system’s non-performing assets. The agency noted that although a few initiatives have been announced to reform the sector, very few...
By Sushil Kutty There is a special kind of Hell for the cow vigilante. It is not a lake of boiling pitch. That is for corrupt politicians. In Dante’s Hell, the cow vigilante is hung from meat-hooks. Roasted on slow fire. Cow Vigilante Fry! Malayali Happymon Jacob tweets that...
i. Supreme Court reserves judgment in Section 377 case: After four days of arguments, the Apex Court reserved its judgment on the validity of Section 377, IPC. On the last day, the religious groups, mainly Christian ones, and Suresh Kumar Koushal, who was party in the early proceedings, argued...
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 21st July early morning, a cattle trader named Rakbar was lynched in Alwar for suspected cow smuggling, more than a year after dairy farmer Pehlu Khan was lynched in the same place. Since lynching has become the ‘new normal’ in ‘New India’, it caused the...
By Kalyani Shankar Now that the Narendra Modi government has won the trust vote on Friday, what next? The dramatic ‘hug’ and ‘wink’ of the Congress President Rahul Gandhi while speaking on the no-trust motion on Friday might have become news, but the real question is whether the Opposition...
By Arun Srivastava Some Muslim scholars and intellectuals have been expressing concern at the backwardness of Muslim community and their lagging behind in education and employment. Their worry is not unjustified. They ought to raise their voice. But at the same time, instead of pointing fingers at others, they...