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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has started preparations for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. During his first interaction with media in the New Year, Akhilesh announced that he would make SP a national party. Although Akhilesh is national president of the party, it...
By Aditya Aamir It is no longer business as usual between United States and Pakistan as it has not been between India and Pakistan. With US President Donald Trump’s tweet and subsequent US actions, US-Pak ties went into a “tailspin”, as had Indo-Pak relationship after the Narendra Modi...
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—1968…the year all hell broke loose worldwide, or so it seemed then. Students hit the streets from Tokyo to Cairo to Chicago. Opposition to the U.S. war in Indochina was the main theme, but there were secondary and local causes, too—from protesting a sick...
The Supreme Court has referred the petition challenging the validity of Section 497, Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’), which penalises a man for having sexual intercourse with a married woman, without the consent of the husband, with imprisonment up to five years and fine, to Constitution Bench of 5...
By Gyan Pathak In the first year of the plan to double farmers’ income by 2022, the growth rate in ‘agriculture, forestry, and fishing’ is estimated to sharply fall to less than half. The first advanced estimate of the national income for the year 2017-18 puts the likely...
By Nitya Chakraborty British Prime Minister Theresa May has shown through her cabinet reshuffle on Monday that she is not in control of the ruling Conservative Party and she can be cajoled by her MPs to change decisions. As a result, the much hyped cabinet changes have led...
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP can claim credit for introducing a major change in Indian politics by ensuring that its slogan, “Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain” (Say with pride I am a Hindu), the leitmotiv of the saffron brotherhood’s Ramjanmabhoomi movement of the 1990s, which led to...
By P. Sreekumaran A tie-up with the Kerala Congress(Mani) has once again become a bone of contention between the CPI(M) and the CPI. The ongoing CPI(M) district conferences saw renewed expression of the need for a tie-up with the KC(M), at present ploughing a lonely furrow in...
By Sushil Kutty To call an investigative reporter a scribe is downright insulting. A scribe is a person who copies out documents and that is not what Tribune reporter Rachna Khaira did when she exposed the ease with which anybody can steal Aadhar data. Her report laid bare...
Aditya aamir If Gujarat was no-holds barred, wait for the Karnataka assembly elections, which are slated for mid-2018. Electioneering has already started in the Congress-ruled state. A disturbing trend is both the BJP and Congress are painting states where they do not rule in poor light, in the process...
By S. Sethuraman The Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley has manifold challenges for his fifth and final budget for 2018-19, a politically-loaded exercise ahead of the Lok Sabha Poll 2019. The country’s fiscal system has taken a beating in the current year, mainly due to a half-baked GST,...
By Nantoo Banerjee An unnecessary controversy is being created about India’s ‘untenable’ fiscal deficit for the financial year 2017-18 as it reached 96.1 per cent of the budget estimate towards October end, lifted by an increase in expenditure. Similarly, the growing criticism by certain interest groups about large...
Aditya Aamir Congress leader P Chidambaram carries the perception that the Modi government and the BJP-PDP state government do not see the reality. So, promulgate Governor’s rule and the fog will clear over the Valley and the reality of the Kashmir dispute will be there for everybody to see....
Aditya Aamir The voices varied as Lalu Prasad Yadav was sentenced to three-and-a-half years after being convicted by a Ranchi court on December 23 last year in another of the fodder cases dogging him from the mid-1990s. While some have read out his political obituary others have spoken of...
By Barun Das Gupta BJP’s Hindutva politics has brought Assam on the brink of a massive social unrest. The reason is the party’s decision to grant citizenship to all Bengali Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh after March 25, 1971, while holding all Bengali Muslim immigrants as ‘illegal infiltrators’ to...
By Aditya Aamir If there were no castes in 1818 and assuming there was an idea of India at the time, the 900 Mahars who joined the British to defeat the Peshwa’s 20,000-strong army would have been treated as traitors and anti-nationals. But there was a ‘British India’...
By K. Raveendran Two steps backward and one step forward. This pretty much characterises the approach of Congress and other parties on the issue of reforming the Muslim society of its outdated practices, the one in contention currently being triple talaq. Most accept that it is unfair on women...
By Harihar Swarup Mohammed Arif Khan, a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government, was seen vehemently pleading for retention of punishable clause as the Rajya Sabha took up triple talaq Bill for discussing. It was his rare visit to the Central Hall of Parliament and he was trying...