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By G. Srinivasan The commanding heights of the domestic economy as the public sector undertakings (PSUS) were once famously lionized in the Nehruvian socialist past have come a long way since the liberalisation of the Indian economy unleashed by the non-family but non-pareil Prime Minister Narashima Rao in...
By Raman Swamy Varavara Rao is 77 years old – he is a well-known Telugu poet, college principal and human rights activist – his house in Hyderabad was raided on Tuesday morning. The reason, according to the police, is that he is suspected of plotting to assassinate Prime...
By Amulya Ganguli The basis of the Opposition challenge to the BJP in the forthcoming State Assembly elections and next year’s general election is the formation of an alliance of regional parties. As is known in political circles, this togetherness will not be easy to achieve in view...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Policies are meant to wipe off tears, not reduce people to tears. The rulers and politicians would do well to recall the famous words of Mahatma Gandhi in this regard. Gandhiji said in a memorable quote which has universal relevance: Before you take...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is continuing his Ashrivad Yatra, two controversial events have hit the headlines. One relates to the supply of shoes to tribals and the other about the dispatch of over one crore letters addressed to women voters...
Denial of sanction to prosecute Yogi Adityanath in hate speech case challenged in Supreme Court – The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government in an appeal filed against an Allahabad High Court judgment, given earlier this year, dismissing a petition seeking an investigation into...
By Aditya Aamir Of course, the Congress was not involved. Rogues wearing the Congress name on their sleeves busted into tyre shops and tested them in an innovating manner, cast the tyre round a Sikh neck to see how the tyre burned, the Sikh burned. The testing method...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The recent times have been a mixed bag for legal developments in dalit rights. While the Supreme Court sought to dilute the protections in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 last year in a much criticised judgment in Subhash Kashinath...
By Aditya Aamir Finally, after decades there is a Stalin at the head of a party, never mind if he is not Russian but a Tamil of India. MK Stalin is only the second president of the DMK and he’s got an elder brother who has no Russian...
By Kalyani Shankar Jammu and Kashmir has got a political governor after five decades. Former Bihar governor Satya Pal Malik, who has a socialist background, has taken over the reins of the state last week. The last time Kashmir had a political governor was when Karan Singh became...