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By Aditya Aamir Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s #HumFitTohIndiaFit challenge to cricketer Virat Kohli has landed Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking remarkably unfit! Rathore tagged Kohli to the challenge and Anushka Sharma’s husband promptly tagged PM Modi to #HumFitTohIndiaFit. Within the hour, Modi was target of a 101...
By Anjan Roy It is four years since the Modi government had come to power and already the next general election is on the horizon. People will have to judge in whom to put their confidence in the forthcoming election. Stock taking is in order. The Modi...
By Victor Grossman In these weeks Germany, like the world, is on a tight rope where the walker seems to be teetering above Niagara Falls or, worse yet, the fiery crater of the Kilauea volcano. A Trump-Netanyahu drama is being staged; each is playing his part on cue....
By Sushil Kutty Who are the bad guys in Thoothukudi? There must be an underworld of sorts in the port city, which was called Tuticorin by the Brits when they ruled India. Today, Thoothukudi is a favourite location for Tamil cinema. In many of them, scenes ofaruva-waving villains...
By Anjan Roy Prime minister Narendra Modi has travelled to the Russian resort of Sochi to meet Russian President Putin. He is not alone. A galaxy of world leaders is heading towards Russia and its annual economic platform at St Petersburg. Sochi and St Petersburg have...
By K R Sudhaman It is really sad that India had taken 70 years after Independence to provide electricity to all its villages. It is not that the previous governments had not done anything and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had come with a magic wand to accomplish...
By Arun Srivastava The night before B S Yeddyurappa was to take oath as the BJP chief minister of Karnataka, reopening the gate to southern India for his party, some senior RSS ideologues and leaders called the RSS chief and expressed their serious reservation on the means resorted...
By Nitya Chakraborty After the formation of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka on May 23 defeating all the machinations of the BJP, the way has opened up for forming a solid platform of the non-BJP parties who do not want the saffrons to take over power again ...
By G. Srinivasan The relentless spurt in global crude prices breaching 80 dollars per barrel in recent days and the concomitant inexorable increase in domestic petrol and diesel prices have once again highlighted how brittle is India’s energy security and how precious little the authorities had done to...
By Subrata Majumder After China clamoured for retaliation against USA’s tariff imposition, almost threatening of a global trade war, it decided to import substantially more from USA. The trade negotiations between the two countriesended last week, with China declaring its honest intent to increase US imports and the...
Sushil Kutty There will be no memorial for Lini Puthussery. The 31-year-old nurse succumbed to the Nipah virus knowing she would die and knowing that there was no time for her to mourn her impending death. But just enough time left to prevent others from catching death. She smothered...
By Gyan Pathak We may be on the cusp of a “second industrial revolution”, says an IMF working paper released recently. It has been predicted on the basis of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. The authors have concluded, “automation is good for growth and bad for equality”....
By Barun Das Gupta A Hong Kong-based English daily reported last week that the Chinese are digging for gold and other minerals at Lhunze, which is right on the border of Arunachal Pradesh that the Chinese call ‘South Tibet’. Nobody can object to the Chinese prospecting for minerals...
By Arun Srivastava Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin badly needed the informal summit. If India needed a positive move towards strengthening bilateral relations, Russia desired a clear assurance about firming up of cooperation, including in defence,as well as global issues of common concern....
By Sushil Kutty With Muslims fasting and generally comatose during the month of Ramzan, authorities in China have told mosques in China to raise the national flag to promote the spirit of patriotism. There are 20 million Muslims in China and they are, apart from the Uyghur, the...
By Aditya Aamir It is rare. It is deadly. It’s called the Nipah Virus! The fruit-bat borne virus has already killed 11 in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malapuram districts after the first three deaths in a family were diagnosed as Nipah, the name that spells panic. One of the...
By Emile Schepers Venezuela’s incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, of the United Socialist Party, won a new six-year term, according to preliminary results announced Sunday night by the National Election Council (CNE). Most of the right-wing opposition to the leftist government had boycotted the election, but some oppositionists broke...
By Nitya Chakraborty In the last decade, India has emerged as the world’s most dynamic lab for stability-enhancing innovations that support a more inclusive economy, according to The Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability published today by international NGO FHI 360 with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. The...