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Aditya Aamir Information & Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani proposes and the PMO disposes! But not to her liking. Late on April 2, Irani directed that journalists who “create and publish fake news” will face six months’ suspension for the first violation; one year for a second and will...
By Arun Srivastava Former president of Brazil Lula da Silva and the Indian symbol of social justice, former chief minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav, have one common feature. Like Lula the Indian leader Lalu is also convicted for indulging in corrupt practices and under the Indian law...
By Arun Srivastava While laying down procedural safeguards and trying to strike a balance between protecting individual liberties and preserving the spirit of a law in favour of oppressed sections, the Supreme Court has virtually conceded to the argument that the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the...
By Aditya Aamir This summer – April-May-June – will sizzle. Not as much as last year or the year before. But average temperatures in most parts of the country will be ‘above normal’, says the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). There is a silver lining, though: temperatures in east,...
By Barun Das Gupta March 19 was a big day for the Indian Air Force as its heaviest transport aircraft, C-17 Globemaster, landed at Tuting Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh, very close to the Chinese border. India has been upgrading the old and disused landing strips...
By Jay Bhagwan Army officer Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz’s killing has been avenged for the nth-time. Two of his killers are said to be among the 12 militants killed in south Kashmir on the April Fool’s Day. Three army soldiers and four civilians also died in the exchange...
By Nantoo Banerjee It may look unusual that global investment bankers, led by Goldman Sachs and Nomura, are suddenly changing their perception about India as a rewarding investment and growth destination. Last month, Nomura’s research report on India went to the extent of saying that political uncertainty in...
By Sushil Kutty All CBSE question papers should henceforth – like film Censor Board certificates, which carry no-smoking and no animals were used in the making of the film claims – carry the legend ‘This Q-paper was not leaked at any step of its making process.’ That requires...
By P. Sreekumaran ‘Nokkukooli’ – the practice of charging for no work and exorbitant charges for loading and unloading works – continues to have Kerala in its stranglehold despite assertions to the contrary by the Pinarayi Vijayan Government. The LDF Government had declared that the infamous practice...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: In Madhya Pradesh there is no perceptible decline in crime in general and against women in particular. The government has come under severe attack over the death of a journalist, Sandeep Sharma, in Bhind district. The sand mafia’s hand is suspected in the brutal...
By K. Raveendran UP Governor Ram Naik can produce a treatise on the ‘R’ in the middle of B R Ambedkar’s name. He has been feeling very agitated over the way Ambedkar’s name was being written in Hindi-spoken states, such as Uttar Pradesh. According to him, the R...
By Harihar Swarup The BJP began its campaign in Karnataka on an embarrassing note, which pollsters say, is inauspicious. It was a day of embarrassment for the BJP when usually sharp party President Amit Shah committed a gaffe. Interacting with the media during a tour of Lingayat and...
By Carlos Martinez “A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left” by Simon Hannah is inspired by Tony Benn’s comment that “the Labour Party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it” and the book charts the attempts...
By S. Sethuraman Karnataka Assembly poll outcome in May will finally determine whether the Modi-Amit duo should opt for advancing Lok Sabha elections well ahead of April-May 2019. Such a decision becomes crucial for the Modi Government, with a perceptible spread of anti-incumbency mood in the country, and...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Saddened and disturbed on hearing about the devastation caused by the atom bombs thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mahatma Gandhi had said “I regard the employment of the atom bomb for the wholesale destruction of men, women and children as the most diabolical...
By Stephanie Savell In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction—weapons that have never been found. Nevertheless, all these years later, Bush’s “Global War on Terror” continues—in...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Mamata Banerjee has become active with the Lok Sabha election coming closer. After meeting with Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao on the issue of third front she was in Delhi and held meetings with the opposition leaders to unite them against BJP. She...
By Gyan Pathak With the approaching general elections in 2019, the political establishment has become more vociferous in the hope of covering up their failures of performance. High sounding schemes are being launched to avert possible anti-incumbency by mesmerizing the people of India in their favour. The new...