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Sushil Kutty Pranab for President is less exciting than Pranab all set to address an RSS convocation. The former President will be in Nagpur on June 7. And the Congress is fuming. Congress leaders cannot believe it. They can’t digest it. They can’t take it. They won’t take it....
By Barun Das Gupta General elections in Bangladesh will be held by the end of this year. The constitutional requirement is that the elections be held between October 31, 2018 and January 28, 2019. This time the elections will be held in conditions that are different from those...
Sushil Kutty Of the two spies who came in from the cold to write a book not penned by them, one could be back in the icebox. Lt. General Asad Durrani, once chief of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is in trouble. He danced a tango with ex-RAW...
By Arun Srivastava Regional parties are often seen from the political perspective of the national parties and their leaders projected as villains operating in a narrow space with their vested interests. Undoubtedly they need to be criticized for their wrong doings, but if they raise local issues and...
Major decisions Review petition filed against Supreme Court’s decision in Judge Loya judgment – The Bombay Lawyers Association has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking review and recall of the judgment given by the Apex Court in which the Court dismissed the bunch of petitions seeking an...
By Amritananda Chakravorty Last week witnessed the violent face of the State machinery that is often reserved for the disturbed or conflict-ridden areas like Chattisgarh, Assam, North-Eastern States or even Jammu and Kashmir. On 22nd May, 2018, thirteen protestors were gunned down in cold blood by the...
By Amulya Ganguli It is rather unusual for the BJP president, Amit Shah, to concede that his party is not as favourably placed as he normally suggests because his is an uncompromising “win at all costs and take no prisoners” approach. It was somewhat uncharacteristic of the...
By Nantoo Banerjee Capricious US trade and diplomatic policies seem to have dumped world diplomacy into disorder. Countries in Europe and Asia are getting increasingly confused and uncertain about staying ‘allied’ with the US. With President Donald Trump appearing as a highly unpredictable ‘ally’ even to traditionally close...
From Arun Srivastava PATNA: Nothing could be more humiliating for Nitish Kumar than to be compared with the amateur young Tejashvi, the emerging RJD leader on the political horizon of Bihar. Till two year ago he was taking the first lessons in politics from his “uncle” Nitish, but...
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The euphoria following the grand unity show in Bengaluru, where BSP national president Mayawati was a star presence, has already been tempered by the compulsions of electoral politics. Mayawati had made it clear that she was willing to forge an anti-BJP alliance at the national...
Sushil Kutty Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is a square block of a man. And HDK is head honcho of Karnataka because of ‘combination’ rather than ‘permutation’. By definition, ‘order’ matters in permutation. But ‘order’ doesn’t matter for combination. Rahul Gandhi’s party has double the seats of HDK’s Janata...
By Dr Arun Mitra It is an irony that healthcare has always been given a back seat in the priority list of successive governments. It has not been a public agenda either. Elections have many a times been fought on trivial issues. Therefore, there is hardly a public...
By John Bachtell Marxism is the world’s most influential body of thought and has changed the course of human history. It is more relevant than ever for addressing humanity’s urgent challenges despite the desperate efforts by the capitalist class to bury it. Among their many discoveries, Marx...
By K. Raveendran With the ‘murder of democracy’ in the Karnataka Assembly having been averted, thanks to a midnight intervention of the Supreme Court, and a joint JDS-Congress government under H D Kumaraswamy duly installed in place of BJP, it may now be time to revisit the developments...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Chengannur assembly by-election, campaign for which ended on May 26, is all set for a thrilling finish. The by-election, which was necessitated by the death of CPI(M) MLA K K Ramachandran Nair, saw a no-holds-barred and high-voltage campaign by the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic...
By Arun Jaitley The NDA Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed four years in office. Today it enters its fifth year in office. The preceding ten years of the UPA rule had unquestionably witnessed the most corrupt Government since Independence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi created...
By Harihar Swarup The outcome of Karnataka elections is loud and clear. It’s emergence of a grand anti-BJP front before next year’s Lok Sabha’s elections which otherwise looked an impossible task. An error, a mighty miscalculation or call it political opportunism in inviting BJP leader B S Yeddurappa...
By C H Venkatachalam Ten Lakh bank employees are to go on 48-hour continued strike on May 30 and 31, 2018, against the meagre offer of wage hike for the bank employees. Bank employees and officers’ wage revision is due since November 11, 2017. Finance Ministry had...