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By Sushil Kutty Ten hours of questioning and Mark Zuckerberg still managed to put ‘evasive’ over ‘evident’. But the evasives are adding up and by the time Zuckerberg is back in Silicon Valley, back to his t-shirt and jeans avatar, they will be a mountain he and his...
By K R Sudhaman India might not be facing a balance of payment crisis now as in 1991, which forced government of the day to go for drastic reforms that opened up the economy. The country has come a long way since then. From $1.7 billion of foreign...
By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) continues to increase its coffers at a big speed taking advantage of the Party ruling at the centre and in 21 of the total 29 states in the country. There is nothing new in the latest report of the Association of...
By Ben Chako Teachers say academic stress is to blame for sharp rise in mental illnesses in children. Kids are self-harming and contemplating suicide in Britain in the face of constant exams and a narrow curriculum, teachers have warned. According to a new study published by the...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP seems to be in serious crisis, prompting party national president Amit Shah to visit the state and interact with state BJP leaders and ministers. The defeat in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections has already shocked BJP central leadership. The formation...
By Sushil Kutty Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is a self-acknowledged milkman. Cows are a best part of his life. That is why he cannot wake up and smell the coffee. And, now, the question is being asked: Why did Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President...
By Cameron Orr U.S. President Donald Trump’s new discretionary budget will shovel 61 percent of the country’s social oxygen into the Pentagon’s fiery furnace. That’s $727 billion worth of schools, libraries, green jobs and infrastructure, housing, hospitals, nutritional support, healthcare, and other social needs that will go unmet....
By Anjan Roy After US President Donald Trump announced three rounds of tariff proposals on Chinese products entering the US and the Chinese responses of counter tariffs on US goods entering China, it was felt that a raging trade war would soon break out. The Chinese had in...
By Amritananda Chakravorty After months of protracted litigation faced by Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, and prominent leader of Aam Aadmi Party (‘AAP’), pertaining to several defamation suits filed by various political rivals, including Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari and Kapil Sibal, amongst others, Mr. Kejriwal has...
By Amulya Ganguli BJP president Amit Shah’s intemperate outburst against the opposition parties – calling them dogs, cats, snakes, etc. – was a sign more of nervousness about his own party than of disdain for its opponents. The reason for the uneasiness about the BJP’s prospects is...
By Sushil Kutty Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani is the talk of Online Town. From the wire to the scroll, she’s commanding attention and grabbing eyeballs. The lady minister wants to regulate online content. Especially, because there is an impression building that the Modi Government is dangerously...
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made major moves in forming a front of anti-BJP parties during her stay in Delhi last month. She has floated the idea of fielding a single opposition candidate against the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls so...
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli came to New Delhi on a three-day visit last week. The tone for the talks he had with the Indian side was set by Oli himself. Three days before he left for Delhi, Oli told the Nepali...
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: So far as the outbreak of violence in West Bengal prior to the panchayat polls is concerned, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is apparently unable to exercise a total control on proceedings. Given the TMC’s overwhelming dominance at all levels of political activity, the...
By Sushil Kutty Congress President Rahul Gandhi has taken ownership of the die cast by the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party combine and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contest and win the Varanasi constituency against a united opposition candidate in the next elections. “He will lose,” Rahul declared...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of great concern that the country’s apex legislature, Parliament of India, is finding it increasingly difficult to legislate, if one goes by the outcome of the second part of the less-than-five- week-long budget session, 2018-19, that ended within minutes of its...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Whatever steps Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister takes to win over voters prove counterproductive. He decided to raise the retirement age of government servants from 60 to 62 years. He expected that this decision will add the votes of state government employees and their families...
By Raju Kumar Madhya Pradesh is one of the states in the country where infant mortality, child mortality and malnutrition are very high. Reducing infant mortality and child mortality has been a challenge for the government. Still expected success has not been achieved, although IMR (Infant Mortality Rate)...