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By B. Sivaraman With the Union Budget presentation approaching, expectations are rising among the salaried—not only about a possible hike in income-tax exemption limit but also on some major path-breaking schemes like unemployment allowance for youth and retrenched workers. However, some TU leaders are sceptical given the policy...
By Sushil Kutty Jignesh Mevani’s Yuva Hunkar Rally hoped to rally the millions of youth in India against the Narendra Modi government for failing to create jobs and for creating divisions in the body politic of India. But the rally in Delhi, which was to be followed...
By Subrata Majumder It was the long term vision of former Prime Minister Narashima Rao to forge closer ties with the then Asian tigers, which were to become one of the two wings of global growth. He launched the Look East policy, aiming to synergise India’s growth and...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Names are being tossed up as to who all will figure in Rahul Gandhi’s political advisory committee. The Congress president is expected to form his political advisory panel of senior leaders after the Congress Working Committee election. The names under consideration are Sam Pitroda,...
By Ashis Biswas Political standards seem to have fallen to an all time low in West Bengal: the manipulative tactics adopted by the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in announcing candidates for the Noapara Assembly seat by-election expose the rank political opportunism that prevails...
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....