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By Nilanjan Banik Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the retail sector has been at the epicentre of national debate. India, by allowing 100 percent FDI in single brand retail, has sent out a strong signal that reforms is picking up. Consumers are happy as they will now have...
By Aditya Aamir Atheists have no business poking their nose in the affairs of god and his flock of whatever religious denomination. But a couple of the agnostic have done just that – they have mounted an attack on Kendriya Vidyalayas for starting the day by singing the...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both Congress and BJP are treating two Vidhan Sabha bye-elections as semi-finals for the Vidhan Sabha elections, which are scheduled to be held at the end of this year.. The two seats – Kolaras and Mungawali – fell vacant due to the death of...
By Nantoo Banerjee India is facing a gigantic task of producing over 2.07 million medical doctors in the next 12 years if the country has to achieve a modest doctor-to-population ratio of 1:1,000 by 2030. Though, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the union health ministry,...
By Ashis Biswas By opposing the Central Government’s efforts to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam on Supreme Court orders, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is merely doing what she does best — pandering to the Muslim vote bank. This may be the broad...
By Sushil Kutty On second thoughts, it was not mutiny. It was not a conspiracy. It was not rebellion. It was airing of grievances on differences with the Chief Justice of India. Justices J. Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurein Joseph sought to correct administrative weaknesses plaguing...
By K. Raveendran The Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) never had a smart face. The babujis in charge of managing its affairs applied 18th century logic to the age of artificial intelligence; so the match between what they did and what they intended to do was as...
By Gyan Pathak All the three wings of governance in India – the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary – suffer from a general disbelief of their being neutral and honest. People are helpless against the irregularities and injustices done by the legislators, top officials and ministers in...
By Harihar Swarup Soon after a massive Aadhaar expose by a reporter from The Tribune, another shocking incident, involving the Press Association, an organization of accredited journalists and photographers, has come to light. For decades the Press Association had been provided a room in the PIB’s first floor...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The decision of the Janata Dal(United) to part ways with the Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) and join the CPI(M)-headed Left Democratic Frot(LDF) will drastically alter Kerala’s political profile. The LDF camp is understandably jubilant over the politically significant development. As for the JD(U),...
Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court was in total disarray on Friday after four senior judges of the apex court held a press conference and openly charged CJI Dipak Mishra with selectively assigning sensitive cases to “preferred benches”, implying he had an ulterior motive, and by afternoon the controversy had...
By Anjan Roy The World Bank had predicted higher growth for India next year. But that is not an isolated episode of global enthusiasm about the country. Earlier, credit rating agencies had upgraded India’s investment worthiness. But for now, the World Bank study indicated strong growth potential for...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Although the National Medical Commission Bill has been referred to the standing committee, certain things need to be answered. The best alternative, however, would be to revamp the MCI to remedy the shortcomings which had cropped in it. But if the government is too...
By Aditya Aamir Something we never get to know from research papers downloaded on us is what do the researchers themselves think about the issues they research, their own answers to the questions they pose to the sample surveyed. That is food for thought. Moving on, a newly...
By Sushil Kutty With US President Donald Trump in all-out war with media, fake news and fake media are current news. And one piece of news that sounds like “fake news” and is doing the rounds is that news reporting in mainstream Indian media is “fair and objective”....
By Nitya Chakraborty The United States President Donald Trump will be attending the annual World Economic Forum conclave at Davos scheduled on January 22 to 26 this year. The WEF is known as the Forum of the world business leaders and the political statesmen who are known as...
Dileep Shora There are a lot of ways to come at this story, but one way to say it is that when brought to a halt in any endeavour, then the easiest way to get out of that bind is to come up a drastic remedy – like an...
By Jay Bhagwan The last time elections took place in Jammu and Kashmir there was violence and the Mehbooba Mufti-led government was forced to cancel the elections in the Anantnag constituency. By then close to 100 civilians were killed and several hundred others lost partial or complete eyesight....