By Sushil Kutty Former US Vice President Mike Pence is back, armed with a memoir with which he wills to conquer the future—Pence wants to be the spotlight in 2024 even as Donald Trump announced he’s gonna give himself another chance in the glare of the White House. Asked...
By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when politics in West Bengal was studded by luminaries Kiran Shankar Roy and Hiren Mukherjee known for their erudition and courtesy towards their political opponents who were never considered to be enemies. The tradition eroded over the years as politeness took a back seat...
By K Raveendran Some 70-odd crore-strong Indian male population will be called upon to come out of their obsession with masculinity as the draft Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022, unveiled by Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for public debate the other day, only identifies them in the feminine gender. Under...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Investigating Agency (NIA) under Union Home Minister Amit Shah as Union Minister of Home Affairs has now gained enough notoriety in the public as violators of rule of law and even the order of the courts of justice. NIA’s attitude towards the human...
By Harihar Swarup Maharaja Harijai Singh of Jammu & Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession on October 26, 1947. He was in a tough spot. The subcontinent has been divided on the basis of faith and his mind was not only the 80% Muslims in the state, but also...
By Arun Srivastava Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray refutation to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on Savarkar might have been driven by political compulsions, but it has provided with the much awaited opportunity to BJP to humiliate and slander him as the true inheritor of the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. Vitriolic...
By Dr Arun Mitra Perplexed with the report that India has further fallen in the Hunger Index to 107th position out of 121 countries, the government of India, instead of debating corrective measures is out to criticise the agencies Welthungerhilfe (WHH) or Concern Worldwide, who calculate this index every...
By Sushil Kutty The main protagonist in the open and shut ‘Fridge Murder’ case, a la the ‘tandoor murder’ saga, Aftab Poonawala, is in safe hands. This, after a Delhi court warned the Delhi Police from using the third degree on Poonawala in their zeal to nail the self-confessed...
By Ashis Biswas Thanks to improved regional connectivity and growing bilateral interest, the volume of trade between India’s Northeastern states and Bangladesh has gone up significantly in recent years. Present trends are positive enough to generate optimism among analysts about medium term prospects of North East India-Bangladesh bilateral trade:...
By James M Dorsey Recent Saudi efforts to appease the Biden administration in the wake of the kingdom’s backing of last month’s OPEC+ oil production cut take on added significance in the wake of this week’s US midterm elections that have strengthened Joe Biden and weakened former President Donald...