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Congress Plans Big Anti-Modi Rally

By Rahil Nora Chopra   Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee is organising a Jan Aakrosh Rally in Ram Lila Maidan in New Delhi on 29 April, hoping to bring at least one lakh people from Delhi and neighbouring states. The rally‘s aim is to expose the Narendra Modi government’s work...

Apr 26 · >

Appointment Of Judges: War Without An End

By Sushil Kutty   The war over judges continues unabated. If the battle lines are drawn, the canvas of the battleground is widening by the day. Now, it has extended to appointments of judges in the Supreme Court. While one judge has been appointed with acceptance from both the...

Apr 26 · >

FICCI Report Unveils Multi-Pronged Agenda To Reinvigorate BIMSTEC

By Nitya Chakraborty   The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has made far-reaching recommendations for the creation of a new ‘BIMSTEC’ by strengthening infrastructure linkages, deepening regional transport connectivity, facilitating cross-border trade, investment and tourism, protecting the environment and promoting sustainable use of shared natural...

Apr 26 · >

Asaram gets ‘life’ till god calls his ‘man’

By Sushil Kutty   The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a sea of swirling plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas and thrice that of France, is difficult to remove. Similarly, human garbage, trash like self-styled ‘god-man’ Asaram Bapu, is hard to get rid...

Apr 25 · >

Modi And Xi Need To Focus On Trade Issues

By G. Srinivasan   India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President in perpetuity Xi Jinping summit parleys sans aide but with interpreters in Wuhan on April 27-28 to take advantage of their mutual chemistry in cementing bilateral relations have not come a day too soon. Soon after Modi’s...

Apr 25 · >

CPI’s Kollam Congress Has To Chart Programme For Revival

By Nitya Chakraborty   The Communist Party of India’s four day 23rd Congress at Kollam in Kerala beginning April 26, has got a tough task in preparing the Party to be a prominent participant in the current battle of the opposition parties against the NDA government at the centre...

Apr 25 · >

Real People, Real World, Real Poetry

By Chip Grim   Poetry on the Picket Line might sound a little unlikely, but it works. It’s a squad of writers prepared to turn up on picket lines and read poetry — something a little different and, usually, it goes down pretty well. It started off by accident...

Apr 25 · >

Us Rejoining TPP To Put Further Pressure On China

By Subrata Majumder   The US-China trade war has taken a new shape after Trump administration evinced interests for re-joining the TPP (Trans – Pacific – Partnership). Seemed to have been flattened by Chinese bellicose and domestic lobby by US farmers, Trump administration is likely to shift pressure on...

Apr 24 · >

Major Decisions of the Courts in India

CJI’s impeachment motion rejected by Vice President – 71 Rajya Sabha Members belonging to seven political parties have signed the notice for initiating impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra. In a press conference, the opposition leader, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad also mentioned that the same had...

Apr 24 · >

Strong In Polemics But Bad In Law

By Amritananda Chakravorty   On 19th April, 2018, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the series of petitionsseeking an independent probe into the death of CBI Special Judge Loya, who allegedly died of cardiac arrest on 1st December, 2014. Judge B.H. Loya was hearing the Sohrabuddin encounter case, wherein...

Apr 24 · >

Popular Angst Against BJP, Modi About To Explode

By Amulya Ganguli   Close on the heels of an open letter written to Narendra Modi by 49 former bureaucrats about the “terrifying state of affairs” in India, has come yet another missive by as many as 637 academics in India and abroad who have voiced a similar concern....

Apr 24 · >

BJP Goes Into Election Mode In Uttar Pradesh

By Pradeep Kapoor   LUCKNOW: BJP is now in the election mode for 2019 Lok Sabha polls. As a part of damage control after the humiliating defeat in two by-elections for Lok Sabha seats Gorakhpur and Phulpur, BJP national president Amit Shah visited the state capital and held discussions...

Apr 24 · >

Casting couch as ‘livelihood provider’

By Sushil Kutty   Pretty girl in Delhi tells mom and pop and little adorable brother at dinner that her bags are packed and first shot of dawn she will be up and gone to Bollywood! Mom – who’s always warning daughter to take care stepping outdoor because there...

Apr 24 · >

A Great Victory For The Yechury Line

By P. Sreekumaran   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cometh the hour, cometh the man. And the chosen man at this critical juncture in the country’s political history is CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury.   It may sound a cliché. But the fact is it is Yechury’s finest hour. By getting the 22nd...

Apr 23 · >

Every Rooftop And Pond Can Be Solar Power House

By K R Sudhaman   Buoyed by the leg up in solar power development in the country, rooftop solar is fast catching up with land becoming scarce, particularly around major cities where solar provided a viable solution to tackling peak power demand. With net metering fast catching up, solar...

Apr 23 · >

Cash Crunch May Continue Beyond One And A Half Years

By Gyan Pathak   Indians have been suffering in the grinding mill of Modi’s monetary policy misadventure for one-and-half years, which began in November 2016 with the announcement of demonetization. Mismanagement of currency notes and coins created a severe “cash crunch” on the one hand, and excessive supply of...

Apr 23 · >

Hang The ‘Nuanced Look’, String The Rapist High

By Sushil Kutty   Now that there is an ordinance to deliver death to rapists of children below 12, there are those who are calling for a “nuanced look” at the whole thing. Their argument: Death penalty for both rape and murder will make rapists kill without compunction; most...

Apr 23 · >

Good Times Are Here Again For India’s Super Rich

By Nantoo Banerjee   It is good to know that India’s rich are getting richer. The country’s $billionaires’ club is expanding. Fifty-six new members joined the club, last year. Old ones are amassing more wealth every year than ever before. Some are shedding sticky assets after squeezing  them for...

Apr 23 · >
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