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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP leader Mayawati feels that the Modi government may go for early Lok Sabha polls as things would be difficult for the saffron party next year. She made this clear in her birthday address, which was beamed live through TV channels. She was of...
By G. Srinivasan Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is all set to present his final budget on February 1, 2018 as the incumbent NDA would not technically present one in 2019 February. Presumably, with the nation going to the polls in May next year, a lot of hot air...
By Dr Arun Mitra There have been several incidents recently which have drawn media attention on the exorbitant charges demanded by the corporate hospitals. Not that people were not protesting earlier; but media has become concerned about these now. The poor were already marginalised and devoid of quality...
By Mark Gruenberg The determination of the United States’ labor movement to come out on the winning side of this year’s election battles was strongly reflected at Houston at discussions during last weekend’s AFL-CIO Martin Luther King conference. Unionists mapping plans here see 2018 as an election...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A desperate Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit in Kerala has hit upon a new strategy to destabilize the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) in the State. Obviously, the party has crafted the new stratagem, having failed to succeed in its earlier attempt to ensure...
Aditya Aamir What is the Congress getting into by seemingly joining hands with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s rabidly Hindutva leader Pravinbhai Togadia? Does Congress president and Shiv bhakt Rahul Gandhi even know which of the 36 million Hindu gods Togadia prays to? Maybe it is a god who might be...
By Sushil Kutty For television news channels to brand the entire Rajput community ‘fringe’ is nothing short of despicable. Tags such as ‘Fringe Singed’ and ‘Apex Court Slaps Fringe’ after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on Padmavaat on Thursday in BJP-ruled states only provoke the agitating Rajputs further....
By Rahil Nora Chopra Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is expected to expand his Cabinet in the next few days. But before that he will have a meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Aspirants and their supporters are approached senior Congress leaders for a favourable recommendation to...
By Nitya Chakraborty The central committee of the CPI(M) is currently in session in Kolkata to finalise its draft political resolution for the coming Party Congress at Hyderabad from April 18 to 22 this year.The 91 wise members of the CC are supposed to assess the latest political...
By Ian Sinclair LAST month news website Politico published an extraordinary leaked US government document concerning US foreign policy.Written for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by his senior policy adviser Brian Hook, the confidential May 2017 memo advises that “the US should use human rights as a club...
By Sankar Ray The ambitious 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at a historic UN Summit — has hit the road block due to the nationwide energy crisis in land-locked Afghanistan, caused by the...
By Saifur Rahman DUBAI: Indians bought property worth Rs42,000 crore in Dubai from January 2016 to June 2017, making them yet again the top foreign property investors in the emirate, statistics released by the Dubai Land Department revealed. “For years, Indians have consistently been the most prolific...
By Sushil Kutty The word “appropriate” is in the eye of speculation after an order passed by a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra on the PIL seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya said documents be “put up before an...
By Sushil Kutty When you take on the chief, empirical data shows the chief wins, always. And Tuesday morning A-G K K Venugopal made a U-turn and confessed that despite the morning tea, “differences” remain and the SC dispute has not been “laid to rest” as the Bar...
By Amulya Ganguli The revolt of the four senior Supreme Court judges, which targets the chief justice, DipakMisra, has been a bolt from the blue for the BJP. The political scene has darkened even further for the party with the possibility of not faring too well in the...
12th January, 2018 would go down as one of the most significant days in the history of judiciary in independent India. Never before the four senior most judges of the highest court of this country, Justice J. Chelameshwar (second senior most judge), Justice Ranjan Gogoi (next in line to...
By Nitya Chakraborty With the presentation of the fifth budget of the NarendraModi government now only a fortnight away, the policy option at the highest level of the Government has zeroed in on giving a big stress on the removal of farm distress in the 2018-19 budget proposals.Prime...
Sushil Kutty The benches in the Supreme Court are all in an array. How orderly nobody knows. But the Bar Council of India (BCI) said on Monday warring Supreme Court judges are back to being best friends and that the country can heave a sigh of relief after three days in...