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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Besides the understanding between Samajwadi Party and BSP, the anger of BJP workers and leaders and the collapse of administration are responsible for the humiliating defeat of BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections. SP candidate Praveen Kumar Nishad won by 21,881...
By Sushil Kutty To say that politics is fragile is to bend with the wind. If anything, politics takes oxygen through democracy’s fault-lines. A particular party is rejected by the voter and politics peaks – EVM fraud! The machines are working for the ruling party and we don’t...
By Nitya Chakraborty In politics, situation changes very fast and one month is not a long period. For the ruling party BJP, only 11 days have passed since their victory in Tripura and successes in other two states on March 3 leading to the euphoria that the saffrons...
By Aditya Aamir Tamil Nadu’s is getting a bit crowded for political parties with one added every month. The last one was Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM). Thursday morning, TTV Dinakaran launched his party, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, with ‘Amma’ making its debut in a party name....
By Rahil Nora Chopra The AICC session, taking place over the next couple of days, is expected to reinforce Congress party’s new line of distancing itself from the image of being a pro-Muslim party and further the soft Hindutva line. As part of this approach, Rahul Gandhi has been...
The fear is on account of increase in litigation on this aspect, as the income-tax department may allocate group profits based on the profit split method. Keeping in mind to adopt the global best practices in the area of transfer pricing (TP), India has, over the past few...
Marginal farmers, disadvantaged rural population, women, dalits, minorities are known for vigorous participation at every level of the democratic process. Democracy with universal suffrage, regular elections and presence of numerous political parties has flourished in India. It has deep roots and growing mass participation, as evidenced by one...
By Mark Gruenberg Pleasing few people but himself, GOP President Donald Trump dumped Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in an early-morning tweet on March 13, replacing him with CIA Director Michael Pompeo, a former Kansas right-wing congressman, foe of the Iran nuclear deal and past advocate of...
By G. Srinivasan The signing of the controversial tariff hike on steel and aluminum by the U.S .President Donald Trump on March 8 in the White House in the presence of workers from the afflicted industries has generated not only a lively debate within the country but also...
By Amulya Ganguli The delight which Tripura’s saffron governor Tathagata Roy, the go-between between the RSS and the BJP Ram Madhav, the Hindutva gadfly Subramanian Swamy, and others in the Sangh Parivar expressed over the toppling of Lenin’s statue in a town in Tripura was short-lived because it...
By Sushil Kutty For the Congress, the dinner was ‘last’ night, the realization was ‘this’ morning. That was because in the line-up of the UPA, assuming that it will be an alliance of the UPA including the BSP and the SP in 2019, where does Rahul Gandhi and...
Today, India is witnessing a 22-25% growth in medical tourism, and healthcare providers expect it to be a billion industry this year. (Reuters) Patient safety is the cornerstone of all healthcare systems. That it must prevail over commercial interests of healthcare providers, healthcare professionals and the pharmaceutical firms...
As per the Maharashtra government, up to December 2017, only loans of about Rs 11,000 crore have been settled with farmers. First, let us compliment both the parties—farmers and the state government—in Maharashtra’s agrarian crisis for reaching an amicable solution, at least for the time being, and averting...
By Arun Srivastava Sonia Gandhi reaching out to the opposition parties and their leaders has been an astute move. Her dinner diplomacy reminisces her initiatives that had culminated in the formation of the UPA against the NDA. It was expected of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi that he would...
By Aditya Aamir The most prominent feature on Naresh Chandra Agarwal’s expansive face is his nose which has a broad sweep to it. On Monday, he dumped the Samajwadi Party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, a shift that will not be seen unless he gets another...
By K R Sudhaman Group of 20, G-20 as it is called, has certainly ensured that the 2008 global financial crisis, which triggered an unprecedented global recession, did not get converted into a great Depression like that of 1930s. In fact, it goes to the credit of G-20,...
By Barun Das Gupta If the proverbial leopard cannot change its spots, can the BJP change its politics of domination? Just before last month’s assembly elections in Nagaland, the BJP took a calculated risk by breaking its ties with the Naga People’s Front (NPF) with which it was...
By Kalyani Shankar Now that the Telugu Desam Party has pulled out its ministers from the Modi cabinet for not protecting the interests of Andhra Pradesh, what happens to the BJP’s ambition of conquering the southern states? The BJP chief Amit Shah said after winning the three northeastern...