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By Dr. Arun Mitra Education is the key to development of any society. It opens up one’s mind, widens the horizon of thinking and gives an insight into the causes and effects of happenings around. Health education is all the more important because good health is most dear...
By Ashis Biswas Unforeseeable occurrences apart, the outcome and the broad trends of the Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly by elections in West Bengal on Jan 29, are predictable. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) should win both seats on current performance. Given the state of the...
By Harihar Swarup The Delhi High Court has acted wisely by restraining the Election Commission from holding by-election to the seats fallen vacant following disqualification of 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party. However, the court refused to stay the Centre’s notification disqualifying 20 MLAs for holding office...
By Sushil Kutty You think you know the man – his cold efficiency and his investigative mind, a one-time no-nonsense top-cop of a metropolis of hard-cases and white collar criminals with a yen for a dollar and a date. Then suddenly, when he is off-guard, or rather when...
By K R Sudhaman Come January, all sorts of rent-seeking and lobbies start, demanding tax sops and other concessions in the General Budget. But the voice of underprivileged and poor, particularly farmers, who have been hit by an unprecedented crisis, is hardly heard as it is very feeble....
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Strange things are happening in Madhya Pradesh. Women generally are against liquor shops, bars and other such outlets. But in Madhya Pradesh just the opposite is happening. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan himself announced closure of “ahatas” (courtyards adjacent to liquor shops) in...
By Barun Das Gupta State Assembly elections to three north-eastern States – Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland – will be held next month. Tripura goes to polls on February 18, while Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27. The results will be out on March 3. In the last five...
By Amulya Ganguli Even as the gau rakshaks have yielded place in the media headlines to the Karni Sena, the latter’s crusade against the screening of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, Padmavat, is giving a foretaste of what can be expected if and when India’s present constitutional order...
By Arun Srivastava Prakash Karat might have been feeling ecstatic at his victory. The Central Committee members endorsed his political line of ‘no alliance, no understanding with the Congress’. But the BJP is celebrating his triumph.Karat and his comrades have made the task of making a clean sweep...
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the liquor ban, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is now toying with the idea of a slogan asking people not to take or give dowry. He is said to be planning to activate the police and administrative departments to implement the campaign against...
By Sushil Kutty The irony is Sanjay Leela Bhansali caters to the same base instincts that the media accuses the “fringe” of. Bhansali’s Allauddin Khilji is pictured a violent sultan who wears his vices on his sleeve. He is a womanizer who rapes his wife. A glutton who...
By Gyan Pathak The second most important slogan around which Narendra Modi has been reaping political dividend since the general elections in 2014 is ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ (support for all, development for all), but the data released by various organizations ahead of the World Economic Forum gathering...
By D Raja India in 2018 confronts mounting challenges of crisis proportions. Such challenges are products of the divide and misrule of the BJP-led NDA regime over a period of three years. Never ever in post Independent India the country faced such intense and devious polarisation in society,...
By Aditya Aamir The audit of global freedom, the latest report of Freedom House, an independent think-tank that rates free countries and not-free countries, is out and India remains in the ‘free’ category, while China and Russia are not worth the thought much less the description. None of...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of concern that economic inequality is far exceeding the economic growth rate in India. The growing income disparity, alongside the massive promotion of consumerism, is driving the deprived more to crimes as the latest report of the union government’s National Crime...
By Arun Srivastava Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to India has of course helped India and Israel to normalise their bilateral ties, but more than that it has facilitated Netanyahu to buttress his image back in his country. It is significant that Netanyahu chose to visit India...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee’s resolution ruling out any form of electoral understanding or adjustments with the Congress is a political blunder more serious than the one the party committed in 1996. A close analysis of the prevailing political situation...
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil Nadu politics is taking an interesting turn after the entry of the two super stars – Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. After their appearance together recently on the occasion of the 101st birth anniversary of former chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran, who was himself a super...