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Colombia Is Now NATO’s First Partner In Latin America

By W T Whitney Jr.   On May 25, 2018, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made an announcement that Colombia has joined North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He mentioned too that Colombia was joining the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development, an international club of creditors of deeply indebted...

Jun 6 · >

CPI Calls Protest Day On June 20 Against High Fuel Prices

By Nitya Chakraborty   The national executive of the Communist Party of India which met at New Delhi on June 3 and 4, 2018, in party’s central headquarters Ajoy Bhavan expressed serious concern at the deteriorating economic and political situation, unbridled hikes in the prices of all petroleum products...

Jun 5 · >

Shiv Sena-BJP Rift Foments Communal Tension

By Dr Bhalchandra Kango   AURANGABAD: Shiv Sena had called for a Hindu ‘Shakti March’ in Aurangabad on May 19 against the city police and the home department which failed to take action against those responsible for recent mob violence here.   The three wards of old city in...

Jun 5 · >

Facebook In Trouble It Phoned Up A Decade Ago

By Sushil Kutty   Mark Zuckerberg must not like the New York Times anymore. The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes out with this report that Facebook...

Jun 5 · >

Grenades Thrown And Shortages Borne

Sushil Kutty   Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on June 6, 2018, for the ninth time, clarified that there’s no “scam in Rafale”. She also reiterated that those shouting “ammunition shortage” should be asking themselves, “Who left the shortage? There was shortage before 2014.”   The Raksha Mantri, in her forgotten...

Jun 5 · >

Screen Fight Is Over, Now It’s Street Fight

Aditya Aamir   A Kaala war is on in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Karnataka, two states with links to Kaala superstar Rajinikanth, a man whose name recognition in distant shores – Japan to Singapore to sister-city Dubai – is like ‘Hail the Queen’ in the United Kingdom, where films walk through cinema halls...

Jun 5 · >

Time’s Up For BJP’s Undemocratic Choreography

By Amulya Ganguli   As in London last April, Narendra Modi participated in a choreographed question-and-answer session in Singapore recently, where one of his responses was apparently to a pre-set query. The difference between the two events was that the BJP aficionado and censor board chief, Prasoon Joshi, managed...

Jun 5 · >

Gossip, Rumour And Test-Tube Sita

Sushil Kutty   ‘Gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ears’, the Buddhist told the journalist who slapped a sneer and shot back, “What about rumour?” The Buddhist shifted to a different asana: “That, my friend, I’m afraid, will move on unless the wise one opens his mouth...

Jun 4 · >

Rahul Gandhi Is Finally Adopting Mamata Model For 2019 Poll

By Nitya Chakraborty   At long last, the Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been acting as the unifier of the anti-BJP forces giving up the arrogance associated with the grand old party that it is the natural party of governance. Karnataka assembly elections results set the process and frankly...

Jun 4 · >

OECD For Pushing India’s Economic Growth Engine

G.Srinivasan   For the Modi Government, the celebration of the four years of corruption-free governance with the receipt of the mixed message of the latest batch of by-polls to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies across the nation behind, the crucial final year of its first term is replete with...

Jun 4 · >
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