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By Dr. Arun Mitra The Drug Technical Advisory Board’s (DTAB) sub-committee’s report and recommendations to ban 343 of the Fixed dose Drug Combinations (FDCs) have been welcomed by the medical professionals in general. Several organizations have been demanding ban on these combinations on the basis of evidence produced by...
By K Raveendran It is indeed shocking that a section of the Indian Penal Code allows a married man to present his wife to someone else without the need to get her consent and without inviting the law against adultery. This should have been a clear case of trafficking...
By Sushil Kutty Donald Trump is the key to the treasury for the US media. Circulation and viewership. TRP. Advertisement revenue. Zoom. Vroom. The remote is never far from a hand. New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC. All rolling in hay! No guesses on ‘why?’ CNN’s Jim Acosta...
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...