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By Aditya Aamir Another Valentine’s Day and love will take a beating – a beating of hearts, that is. News will, however, veer to beatings at the hands of the moral police, as it has already. Valentine’s Day has to be seen in the background of globalisation,...
By P. Sreekumaran The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government came to power with a firm commitment to eradicate corruption from public life. As part of the anti-corruption campaign, it had also promised to strengthen the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau(VACB). Two years into its rule, that promise...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Lok Sabha by-elections on March 11 for two seats Gorakhpur and Phulpur will prove to be a testing time for both the Yogi Adityanath government and the Opposition. The outcome will set the tone for Lok Sabha elections next year. The Gorakhpur seat...
By Arun Srivastava It may sound bizarre but the fact remains that the RSS has put its entire might to weaken and erode the support base of chief minister Nitish Kumar. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat zeroing in on the farmers is the candid example of this strategy. RSS...
By Kalyani Shankar What is the main challenge before the Congress party which dreams of containing the resurgent BJP? It is reinventing the United Progressive Alliance before the next Lok Sabha elections. The Opposition is not able to take on the government on serious matters beyond the Demonetization...
By Aditya Aamir What was Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat thinking on Sunday when he said the RSS could assemble its cadres to fight a war much faster than the Indian army could? Either he was not in his senses or he really believes his words,...
The Supreme Court continued last week hearings in the sensitive case of Judge Loya’s mysterious death in 2014. Indira Jaising, appearing for Admiral Ramdas, argued that there were sufficient reasons to suspect the alleged death of Judge Loya, including several inconsistencies in documents. There was no entry of Judge...
By Anand Vardhan Dubai has emerged as a major centre in the global fashion circuit. A Local designer, who is a member of the Sharjah ruling family, has played a key role in the high-profile Dubai Fashion Week. She is Shaikha Hind Al Qassimi, a multifaceted personality with an...
By Sushil Kutty Kamal Haasan is a thorough ‘actor’ in real and reel life as opposed to Rajinikanth, who comes out in real life a ‘natural’ and in his cinema roles, an actor. Last Saturday Kamal was in Harvard, where he told the audience there he hoped Rajini’s...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After hectic efforts Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has succeeded in making the two by-elections a contest between the Scindias. While the Congress campaign is led by Jyotiraditya Scindia, the BJP is projecting Yashodhara Raje Scindia as the commander of its campaign. Yashodhara is...
By Arun Srivastava It is an open secret that BJP does not depend on the strength of its allies for survival at the Centre, but it will have to depend on their support during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The politics of partnership is crucial for swaying the...
By Sankar Ray “Naqeeb Masud Shaheed: Zwanan Mo Qatal Kege Da Sanga Azadi Da, Pashto Der Khkule Nazam.- a pick from a song in Pashto by Pashtuns has been reverberating in the wide space confronting of the National Press Club, Islamabad, where thousands of Pashtuns began a sit-in...
By Nantoo Banerjee The imposition of long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax on gains from equity and mutual funds trading is possibly the most sensible thing the government could do in its effort to contain the overheated Indian stock market. Taxes are rarely welcomed by those who are subjected...
Hosapete (Karna): Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday intensified his attack on the NDA government on the Rafale fighter jet deal, alleging it was the “biggest issue” of corruption in the country now. Launching his party campaign at Hosapete in poll-bound Karnataka’s Ballari district, Gandhi alleged that Modi had...
Sources said ONGC would get up to a 10-percent stake, valuing the deal at $600 million. Reuters Updated:February 10, 2018, 1:40 PM IST A technician is pictured inside a desalter plant of ONGC on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. (File photo/Reuters) Abu Dhabi/Dubai: India’s biggest explorer Oil and Natural Gas...
Beijing: Nearly 40 geologists from China and Pakistan have teamed up to survey the Makran Trench in Balochistan following Beijing’s concerns over the possibility of a massive earthquake affecting the strategic Gwadar port in the volatile province, a media report said on Saturday. The trench is the meeting point...
Washington: A Russian who offered stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons and compromising information on President Donald Trump bilked US spies out of $100,000 last year, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing US and European security officials. The money was delivered to a Berlin hotel room in September...
Addressing a presser after meeting RBI’s board, Arun Jaitley said, ” as far as fiscal situation is concerned, I see next year to be more comfortable as far as revenues are concerned. I cannot see at this stage that there would be any slippages.” PTI Updated:February 10, 2018, 2:19...