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Bhanu Dhamija Hindu nationalists have long dreamt of a Greater India. They aspire to rebuild a nation matching the size and glory of ancient India – Akhand Bharat (Undivided India) and Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation). RSS and BJP leaders have often pushed for these aims much to the chagrin...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Extraordinary increase in crimes against women in Madhya Pradesh has forced the police to resort to extra-legal measures to ‘terrorise’ the criminals. According to data available on the police website, 85 rape cases were reported from November 2017 to February 2018 in Bhopal alone....
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Damned if it forges an alliance. Damned if it does not. That is the dilemma the Kerala Congress(Mani), which is currently ploughing a lonely furrow in Kerala politics, finds itself in. Deepening the dilemma is the sharp division in the party on the...
By Aditya Aamir ‘Apology’ is not like saying ‘sorry’, which is just another word Indians all over keep uttering, most times not even meaning it, sincerity not in tone nor in intent. ‘Sorry’ is generally looked down upon and cast aside disparagingly with these words, “Angrez Chala Gaya...
By Sushil Kutty Okay, now we know who the next Prime Minister of India will be: A 47-year-old who has an aged grandma in Italy and tonnes of fans in Singapore, a man so steeped in Hindu mythology, he knows the Mahabharata from the Kaurava to the Pandava,...
By Nantoo Banerjee How well is India ready to fulfill its highly ambitious solar power generation programme — from the current level of only around 15,000 MW, or 15 gigawatt, to 100,000 MW just within the next four years? To be honest, it is impossible to achieve such...
As per the International Energy Agency, the industrial sector accounted for 42% of the world electricity consumption in 2015. (Reuters) Industry 4.0 has become the buzzword of late. Interestingly, however, it was way back in 2011 that the German federal government announced ‘Industrie 4.0’ as one of the...
Trump’s announcement comes closely on the heels of “investigations” under one of the most opaque provisions of US law. On March 8, US president Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminium, on the reasoning that other countries’ trade practices...
The US last week asked for consultation with India, the first step in the WTO dispute settlement process. US president Donald Trump has been violently shaking up trade partners across the globe over the last few weeks in his bid to protect domestic manufacturers. The latest move by...
By Arun Srivastava The verdict of the by-polls depends on the exigencies and compulsions of political parties, especially the one in power. And if the politicians are to be believed, the results do not necessarily reflect the mood of the people. There is a general tendency to...
By K Raveendran Governments all over the world are evaluating the success or failure of their policies in terms of the number of jobs created or lost. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was predicated on the promise to protect American jobs, particularly in the steel industry, for the collapse...
By Harihar Swarup The BJP’s winning streak that seemed to have got a boost in North-East, after the setback in Rajasthan, has hit a wall in Gorakhpur, a party bastion for nearly three decades and chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s constituency which elected him to Lok Sabha for five...
FE Bureau A report by Icrier recommends use of technology and JAM to link land records of farmers with Aadhaar and bank accounts for assessment and faster settlement of claims. While the country has had crop insurance since 1972, crop insurance has been beset by problems like high premium,...
With the government’s active pursuit of developing India as a gas-based economy, India’s gas imports (in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG) have been increasing supported by lower prices. With the Arctic blast, nicknamed ‘Beast from the East,’ lowering temperatures across the European Union (EU) and...
Plato and Aristotle in a detail from the painting ‘The School Of Athens’ by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Photo: Wikimedia Commons In 1600, the royal British physician William Gilbert explained why the magnetic needle in a compass always faced “north”. It is possible that an ancient Indian...
By Sushil Kutty The big story is not the two no-confidence motions against the Modi Government. One of the YSR Congress and the other of Telugu Desam (TDP). The story of the day is that a fragile opposition alliance is taking shape; interestingly, put in place by the...
By Gyan Pathak India is increasingly losing happiness by the year. World Happiness Report 2018 of the United Nations reveals that Indians are increasingly becoming unhappy. It scored only 4.190 on a scale of 0-10 in 2017, which is only a little more than the passing mark of...
By Alan Simpson It is four years since the death of my friend and mentor, Tony Benn. I could argue that he turns up in every article I write, but that’s a poor substitute for the daily conversations into which he poured tea and optimism in equally copious...