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By K Raveendran Millions of Ayyappa devotees across the world are waiting with bated breath for the Supreme Court to resume consideration of the 65-odd review petitions on the vexed issue of women’s entry to Sabarimala. The week’s time allowed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi heading the reconstituted 5-member bench...
By Dr Arun Mitra The report published in the Drug Today Medical Times on 19thFebruary 2019 by Shri B S Rawat that 244 malnutrition deaths occurred in Delhi hospitals in 4 years is highly alarming. This report is based on the information received on an RTI information provided by...
By Harihar Swarup A typical election scenario unfolds as the Congress and the BJP, the two main contestants in the coming Lok Sabha elections, have firmed up alliances with regional parties. Never before regional parties were so important as in the coming general elections. The most important alliance is...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Beginning on February 7, Haitians have been in the streets protesting against corruption, high prices, shortages, inflation, and power outages. Demonstrators are demanding that President Jovenel Moïse, in power since January 2017, resign. Moïse blames the disturbances on “armed groups and drug traffickers” and...
By Nishant Sirohi HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) in its 104-page report unveiled the horrors of cow vigilantism in India. The report reflected the impact of the so-called cow protection through vigilantism, on the society, rural economy and on the forthcoming national elections. In the quest for short term electoral...
By B.Sivaraman If there is a single demand that commonly figured in the recent protests of the Central and State government employees, public sector workers in defence production, telecom, railways and banks as well by some workers in the private sector, it is the scrapping of the New Pension...
By Anirudh Deshpande In the light of colonialist historiography on Indian history, especially the medieval period (700 – 1800 CE), Indians became accustomed to view their medieval past in communal colors increasingly from the second half of the 19th Century. This colonialist view of Indian history found its way...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s plunge into politics has enthused the rank and file of the Congress. The party has also started joining hands with smaller parties in Uttar Pradesh. The OBC- dominated Mahaan Dal has joined hands with Congress party in the presence of Priyanka Gandhi....
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The sailing is smooth for the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the Muslim-dominated Malappuram district, a bastion of the Congress ally, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The sitting MP, P. K. Kunhalikkutty, who is also the national secretary of the IUML, will be the...
By Richard Burgon Calamity after Conservative calamity brings home just what difficulty the Tories’ Thatcherite administration is in. On February 14, the Tories suffered their 10th parliamentary defeat on Brexit. So commonplace have government defeats become that many hardly bat an eyelid. Government defeats are the new norm. The...