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By Arun Srivastava Within three months of his remark “all is not well in the NDA”, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has made a 180 degree turn to sing praise of the BJP and its leader Narendra Modi. On March 22 the annoyed chief minister has censured...
By Pradeeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP and its national president Mayawati appear to be on the driving seat for forming the alliance against BJP in UP. Much significance is being attached to the statement of Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav that his party was ready to make...
By Amulya Ganguli In deciding to support Arvind Kejriwal in one of his customary skirmishes with those whom he regards as his enemy, the chief ministers of West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala may be backing the wrong horse. The sight of Mamata Banerjee, Chandrababu...
By Victor Grossman Millions watching the G-7 leaders plus Trump in Quebec and then the Trump-North Korea talks in Singapore understandably may have missed the also-important events simultaneously happening here in Leipzig. While those important events were unfolding internationally the very important political party, Die Linke, was...
By Sankar Ray With a little more than a month to go for the three-day polling during 25- 27 July to elect 272 Members of National Assembly in the 342-seat national parliament, Pakistan’s ten years of uninterrupted freedom from military dictatorship palpitate. The electorate comprises 105.96 million,...
By Arun Srivastava The sudden shift in President Donald Trump’s stand on Russia and calling on the world’s leading economies to reinstate Russia to the Group of 7 nations four years after it was cast out for annexing Crimea is a gift to President Putin for helping...
Major decisions – Split verdict in the AIADMK disqualification case: A division bench of the Madras High Court gave a split verdict on the petitions challenging the disqualification of 18 ‘rebel’ MLAs of AIADMK by the Speaker of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. These MLAs were disqualified in...
By Anjan Roy China has imposed higher tariffs of 25 percent on imports from the United States worth some $50 billion. This is in response to USA imposing similar tariffs on imports from China of an equal amount. US had threatened to slap another round of tariffs...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The National Capital Territory of Delhi is not new to political spectacles or drama as they say, especially since the last three years when the AAP Government came to power with Arvind Kejriwal at the helm, but the developments of the past one week have...
Sushil Kutty The allegation is the two are shameless publicity-seekers. The defence is Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma don’t need publicity; it is publicity that stalks them! A super-cricketer and a top actress, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Millions of slurping fans follow their every action. Is that all?...
By Kalyani Shankar At the height of summer heat and severe pollution levels, the capital is caught in a bizarre confrontation between the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the duo of Lt Governor Anil Baijal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for more than a week. Besides...
By Harihar Swarup As the world hailed the Trump-Kim summit as successful and big event of the current year, there is a lesser known side of North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un’s rule. As talks between two leaders progressed, human rights activists were watching if Trump would bring up...
By K Raveendran Cartel versus cartel is certainly a fair deal. Oil cartel OPEC has been holding the world to ransom by manipulating supplies so that the buyers pay a price that can sustain the extravagant life of their rulers and citizens for endless time. The whole world has...
By K R Sudhaman India-Iran ties have become challenging yet again after the recent US sanctions against Tehran following the unilateral pull-out of Washington from Iran Nuclear deal. But this has thrown a new opportunity to get into shipping services in a big way that will facilitates Iranian...
By Sushil Kutty ‘Postcard News’ stands branded as fake news ever since its editor tweeted a clearly false news. Sunday morning US President Donald Trump added Washington Post to the list, opining (not a reporter’s word) that if WaPo employees go on a long strike “we would get...
By G. Srinivasan Promising to replace trust in long-standing institutions such as commercial and central banks with trust in a new, fully decentralized system founded on the block chain and related distribution ledger technology (DLT), are the crypto-currencies emerging from obscurity to prominent position? This is a crucial...
By Nantoo Banerjee Call it an irony of fate or, maybe, his tryst with destiny, Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country’s four-time finance minister, is in a mess. Chidambaram has been chargesheeted by his once trusted Income-Tax Department for allegedly making investments in foreign assets and not disclosing them in...
Sushil Kutty There’s a call to “reboot” the India Kashmir policy. Also to reboot the definition of ‘anti-national’. Sane voices as opposed to the “insane right-roiled” are demanding that. Shujaat Bukhari’s killing has sharpened divisions in the media and every media anchor wants to become Kashmir interlocutor. And the...