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By Harihar Swarup Now that Parliament has passed the Constitution amendment bill providing for a new 10 per cent quota for the “economically backward” among those outside other quotas, what is likely to be its fall out? Evidently, a Pandora’s Box of new quota demands is set to...
Pollution is one of the major challenges in India and considering this should get a solution the Narendra Modi government launched Friday a five-year action plan to tackle the situation in 102 Indian cities, which were earlier identified by the Central Pollution Control Board. Ministry of Environmental, Forest and...
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By K Raveendran Symbolism has been the staple diet of Indian politics. Irrespective of whether parties believe in something or not, when it comes to public posturing they can only take a certain position. And if they dare to defy, they are doomed. Posturing is important, implementation may not be...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The first session of the newly constituted Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha ended on a bitter note. The four-day session was marked by stormy scenes, angry exchanges and a series of walkout by the opposition. The election of Speaker and deputy Speaker was held...
Sushil Kutty Alok Verma takes the trophy for a CBI Director removed twice from functioning. He goes from infighting to fire fighting. The simple explanation for his reinstatement and transfer is that CJI Ranjan Gogoi had already made up his mind that Verma should go but due process ought...
There are about one crore Hindu Bangladeshi refugees in West Bengal and with the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill implementation the Bharatiya Janata Party believes these population can be reached they can cash it in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The bill was easily passed in the Lok Sabha on January...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A frustrated BJP has upped the ante against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in the state. The reasons for the BJP’s frustration are not difficult to guess. The much-hyped Sabarimala agitation is once again losing steam. True, the agitation received a new lease...
By Dr Arun Mitra The statement of Andhra Pradesh University vice chancellor G Nageshwar Rao at the Indian Science Congress in Jalandhar about the birth of Kauravas through stem cell transplantation needs a critical review. “We had hundreds of Kauravas from one mother because of stem cell research...
By K R Sudhaman With global trade from India now surging towards $1 trillion (exports and imports), port and shipping too have been growing rapidly in the country in the last decade or so. But port development has been vastly inadequate and none of the Indian ports figures...