By Kalyani Shankar All eyes are on the forthcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, for which polling will be held on May 10, and the results will be announced on May 13. The outcome will determine the prospects of the two leading contenders – the ruling BJP and the Congress ahead...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Work should speak for itself, and when it fails in convincing people, interested parties come forward to defend or to praise the people of institutions who are accused of inefficiency or deliberate omission and commission. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come forward in defence of...
By Sushil Kutty The significance of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s ‘social justice federation’ cannot be overstated though only the politically illiterate will think of it as a social justice forum, when in reality, it’s a group of like-minded opposition parties seeking to cement opposition unity to dethrone...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Cryptocurrency prices are once again on a rebound. Bitcoin is above $28,000 consistently for some time and most of the leading altcoins are similarly in the green over the past few weeks. The rise in bitcoin prices after remaining subdued for nearly a year coincides...
By Dr. Arun Mitra Passing of Right to Health Bill by the Rajasthan Assembly is a long overdue requirement of the citizens and demand of the health care organizations. This Act gives the residents of Rajasthan right to free healthcare. The right to health thus becomes justiciable, that is...
By Satyaki Chakraborty NEW DELHI: People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), along with the National Network of LBI (Lesbian, Bisexual, Intersex) Women and Trans Persons (The Network), organised a press conference to present findings from a public hearing, where testimonies and lived experiences of queer and transpersons facing conflict...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The arson attack inside a coach of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express in Kozhikode, Kerala, which left three persons dead and eight injured, underlines the urgent need to tighten security systems on trains and at railway stations. A man from Noida, Uttar Pradesh, has emerged as...
By Tirthankar Mitra Communal clashes during passage of Ram Navami processions at Kazipara in Howrah followed by another flare up at Rishra in Hooghly has the Trinamool Congress leadership worried about its minority support base. These conflagrations could not come at a worse point as they erupted in the...
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing presence of Chinese industrial investors in India despite the so-called government restrictions is more alarming than Chinese spy balloons over the Indian sky (detected by the US) and spy ships close to its territorial water. These Chinese industrial investors pose a big threat to...
By Sushil Kutty Ten years is a long time in politics. Ahead of the watershed 2014 general elections, the two main players in the reckoning were Gujarat-model famous Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi whose sole claim to political relevance was dynasty. Also trying to edge in sideways,...