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By Harihar Swarup The biggest news is that the Monsoon Session of Parliament has been functioning normally. This is, perhaps, for the first time in four years, since the BJP came to power, that the two houses have been conducting business without interruptions and there is no adjournment for...
By Aditya Aamir And in this heart of darkness/Our hope lies on the floor/All love like flame is fleeting/When there is no hope anymore. So we feel, many of us, as 2019 general elections close in on us in a relentless caterpillar-walk. The caterpillar eats distance in a hump-and-slide...
By John Bachtell Change is taking place exponentially in today’s world. One unmistakable trend is the rapid rise of China and decline of the U.S. as the dominant global power, a place it has held since World War II. What does this portend for global economic and diplomatic relations?...
By Mark Gruenberg It’s been 44 years, come August 8-9, 1974, since Republican President Richard M. Nixon resigned in disgrace – before being thrown out of the Oval Office via impeachment and conviction – due to the accumulated scandals, constitutional crimes and cover-ups collectively known as Watergate. And now,...
By Nitya Chakraborty If the reports about the negotiations among the leading opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh- Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, on seat sharing for the coming Lok Sabha poll are any indication, the opposition parties have made a major breakthrough in...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP president Amit Shah has failed to have his way in the appointment of the new president of the Kerala unit of the party. The BJP chief has had to swallow a bitter pill as the state RSS leadership said a firm No to his...
By Rahil Nora Chopra At last Mamata Banerjee has also joined the fray for prime ministership in the 2019 elections. In the past she has never uttered a word on these lines, but people close to her are now openly bringing up the subject. Recently Omar Abdullah met Mamata...
By Subrata Majumder BRICS accounted for 23 percent of world economy, 16 percent of world trade and contributed 50 percent to global economic growth. Given these high stakes in global economy, trade war opens a new opportunity for BRICS to play a dynamic role to protect the global multilateral...
By K R Sudhaman Buoyed by a pick-up in exports in April-June quarter this year, India may target $400 billion annual merchandise exports in two years, a top export body said. India clocked about $300 billion merchandise exports in 2017-18 after dipping to $275 billion in the 2016-17 –...
By Anjan Roy It might not be obvious always why the gods behave the way they do. From their Olympian heights so much more could be visible than ordinary mortals. That also probably applies to the central banks. Reserve Bank has raised the interest rate when the price prospects...