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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...
By Aditya Aamir Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is cow-friendly to a fault. Soon after the ‘Yogi’ became CM, the state government had unveiled a fleet of ambulances to move ailing cows “to hospital” and everyone cheered. But what about human beings? Is the Hindu chief minister...
By Sushil Kutty It was a gritty court saga out in the open. For the journalist a seemingly impossible heist given to him on a platter even if the limelight was for the four judges alone. But at the end of the day, the January 12 press conference...
The much anticipated hearing challenging the validity of the Aadhaar programme as well as the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (‘Aadhaar Act’) began last week in the Supreme Court before the Constitution Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Mishra, Justice A.M....
By Nitya Chakraborty For those who have been anxiously waiting for the CPI(M) central leadership to take a final decision in favour of building a broadbased unity of the democratic and secular forces to fight the BJP and its allies in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the voting...
By Nantoo Banerjee If proximity to raw materials, abundant supply of water and electricity, availability of trained manpower, port and road connections, nearness of local and export markets and helpful local administration and government are principal pre-conditions for industrial investments, few Indian states can match West Bengal in...
Sushil Kutty A fake news on a leftist website with the headline ‘Justice Mishra Recuses from the Loya Case’ with the article’s body saying otherwise remains on website even as news came that the case will be heard by a two-judge bench comprising of Chief Justice of India Dipak...
By Gyan Pathak The political turn of events unmistakably indicates that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the crossroads, where he stands solely with his own wisdom and strength, and his bête noire Rahul Gandhi in wonderland. Modi has been trying to break the shackles of the...
By Arun Srivastava Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s convoy was stoned in Nandan village of Dumraon block during his tour to the village as part of his state-wide Vikas Samiksha Yatra. The police put the blame on dalits, which is considered a tactical ploy to shield the local legislator...
By Subrata Majumder After the three previous Bengal global investment summits turned dormant, the 4thsummit held this month threw some rays of hope. Most of the MOUs signed in the three previous summits remained on paper. But the latest made a seamless attempt to woo investors after Chief...
By K. Raveendran An unusually warm January has produced an unprecedented cold war, the first such in the annals of Supreme Court, with a detente totally absent. Four judges, all men of known integrity and eminence, one of them a future Chief Justice, have staged a mutiny against...
By Harihar Swarup This is not for the first time that Supreme Court judges have aired their grievances publicly, but the way four senior most judges of the apex court revolted against the functioning of the Chief Justice is unprecedented. Justice JS Verma spoke in late nineties...
By John Wojcik There is something rotten about the way the Russiagate probe is going these days, and the plausible explanations are quite troubling. The first thing that smells bad is the fact that the White House Counsel Don McGahn and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon...
By Sushil Kutty Congress President Rahul Gandhi, when he was Congress vice president, led a party delegation to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi at the height of PLA intrusion into Doklam, and courted controversy, with the party first denying it and then accepting it. It appeared at...