By Sushil Kutty The CBI action against AAP excise and education minister Manish Sisodia is betraying uneasiness in the BJP. More so, after America’s ‘No.1’ newspaper, the New York Times, put Sisodia on its front-page, declaring him the world’s ‘No.1 education minister’. This, two days after AAP...
By Prabhat Patnaik The hegemony of the US dollar was based on the fact that the world’s wealth-holders considered it to be “as good as gold”, even when it was no longer officially convertible to gold at a fixed rate, as it had been under the Bretton...
By Gyan Pathak Labour market in India is becoming more and more elusive for youth. During the last six years their participation in the total workforce in the country has dropped from 17 to 13 per cent at a time when their population increased from 26 to 28...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRIVANTHAPURAM: The confrontation between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government of Kerala on the Kannur University issue has touched a new low. A protracted legal battle is in the offing with the Vice-Chancellor of the Kannur Varsity...
By Rahil Nora Chopra With Tejashwi Yadav becoming the deputy CM of Bihar, media persons reminded him of his pledge of providing 10 lakh jobs. Seeing the political situation and Nitish Kumar’s prime ministerial aspirations, he played a masterstroke and announced that his government would create up to...
By K Raveendran A brief respite in retail inflation registered for July may not be of much assurance about price stability as another GST readjustment is threatening to push up prices of items of mass consumption. Retail inflation was steady in June, although well above the...
By Nitya Chakraborty In 1984 Lok Sabha elections held during the national wave in favour of the Congress following the murder of Indira Gandhi, the ruling party got the maximum number of seats – 414. The BJP was decimated electorally with only two seats. The 40-year-old Rajiv Gandhi started...
By Prakash Karat The Narendra Modi government is deepening strategic ties with the United States on all fronts. Three events which took place in the last few weeks highlight this growing proximity to the geopolitical designs of the United States. India has joined a new grouping called...
By Arun Srivastava The political spectre looming over the country points to bad days. The recent political actions of Narendra Modi without any ambiguity underline the threat of India turning into an authoritarian state. Modi has turned so self-aggrandizer that he is reluctant to stand to his...
By Ashis Biswas While it has not been possible for the Border Security Force (BSF) and different state police authorities to reduce illegal cattle sales to Bangladesh to zero level, cow smuggling has declined sharply over the years. However, reports from Assam and West Bengal areas close to...