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By Dr C Sadasiva Reservations for SC and ST have been there since the Constitution of India came into force. Mandal Commission was constituted by Mrs Gandhi and V P Singh initiated its implementation. In 1990s, the question of back log came before the apex court and suggestions for...
By Harihar Swarup Manner and timing of the CBI action in West Bengal reeks of political vendetta. The graceless spectacle in Kolkata captures a drama that officers, landing up allegedly unannounced and warrantless, at the residence of the state police chief. Leave the common man; if a top police...
By John Wojcik Just a day after President Donald Trump, speaking to a world audience, declared that there would be no legislation signed by him if Congress didn’t stop investigating him, the Congress of the United States opened broad new investigations into his affairs. The investigations, which go beyond...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: On the eve of Rahul Gandhi’s visit, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath announced several populist decisions. The decisions include stipend of Rs. 4,000 per month for unemployed urban youth, 100 days employment in a year for urban youth, 10 HP electricity at half rate...
By Dr Arun Mitra Despite advances in health care there persist gross inequalities as far as access to it is concerned. Even today the low socio economic groups have difficulty in getting modern healthcare. Inequalities also persist in terms of geography, caste, religion and gender. High out-of- pocket expenditures,...
By B. Sivaraman Narendra Modi’s five-year record in office shows that he has confused the wave of support to him in 2014 as mass support for authoritarianism. It is now time to pay dearly for that. There may not be a visible strong anti-Modi wave yet but an undercurrent...
By Shameem Faizee After getting assured that the Sangh Parivar has got what it wanted on the Ayodhya issue, the Narendra Modi government has intensified new attacks on the basic structure of the Indian Constitution. In the last fortnight, the government officially floated the idea of handing over the...
By Nitya Chakraborty The die is cast. There is no escape route for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come out unscathed from the Rs. 58,000 crore Rafale scam. The report in The Hindu newspaper of February 8 makes it abundantly clear that it was the Prime Minister’s Office...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In politics, as in life, what matters the most is perception. And the perception fast gaining ground in Kerala is that the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has, once again, succumbed to the pressure of the Left Democratic Front(LDF) on the sensitive Sabarimala issue. The TDB’s...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command has a problem convincing the party state units especially Delhi, Haryana and Punjab regarding tie-up with AAP for 2019 Lok Sabha election. The party high command feels that if the party does not tie-up with AAP the BJP stands to...