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By Sushil Kutty Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekara Rao is emerging as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nemesis, not the soft-spoken Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray nor the fire-breathing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee—‘KCR’, as he is called, is an adversary with the ability to get under the skin....
Balochistan Is On The Verge Of Eruption By Rebels
By Manish Rai Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area, in the last few weeks has witnessed a drastic increase in attacks against the Pakistani security forces, with Baloch rebels having caused heavy casualties to the state forces in different operations. Baloch insurgents are usually involved in scattered...
Mandatory Pre-Legislative Review Could Enhance Constitutional Culture
By Madhavi Gopalakrishnan and Trisha Choudhary Constitutional culture may be understood as the interactions between the citizens and officials of a State concerning the meaning of the Constitution. It refers to the belief that the exercise of State power is limited by the Constitution, a document which derives its...
Ukraine President Has Been Dismissing The War Scare Spread By USA And Britain
By Ben Chacko “The biggest enemy is panic,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this weekend, adding that if US and British claims that Russia is about to invade his country are based on evidence, he would like to see it. What is going on? Could Washington and London be...
Samajwadi Party Needs To Have A Big Lead Against BJP In First Two Phases Of Polls
By Harihar Swarup Much awaited Uttar Pradesh assembly polls have started and key implications are already clear. If Samajwadi Party has to win Uttar Pradesh, it has to open up a substantial lead against BJP in western UP, in the first two phases of the polls that cover a...
Court Ambivalence Allows BJP Scope To Use Civil Code For Polarisation
By K Raveendran A coincidence of events, deliberate or otherwise, has forced the issue of uniform civil code to the fore in time for the crucial assembly elections, so as to help BJP with its agenda of polarisation of voters on religious lines, particularly in the all-important Uttar Pradesh....
Samajwadi Party-RLD Alliance Has An Edge In Second Phase Of Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is facing big challenge from Samajwadi Party and RLD combine in second phase of UP Assembly elections in Western UP due to domination of Muslim population in this region. Already on a slippery wicket witnessed in first phase in jatland of Western UP due...
Reimagining A Justice And Legal System Which Eliminates Hierarchies
By Indira Jaising One of the many things that really hurt when I was arguing the case of Ms. X versus Registrar General, High Court of Madhya Pradesh and Another (Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1137 Of 2018) was the hierarchical relationship between what is referred to as “the subordinate...
More Extensive And Intensive Agitations Of Working Class Are Ahead
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India seems to be heading toward a more turbulent industrial relations in the country in 2022 with the working class planning for more extensive and intensive agitations against Modi government’s economic and industrial policy in general and labour policies in particular on the one hand...
Finance Ministry And RBI Are Now At Tandem On Major Policy Issues
By Anjan Roy Two major policy statements which were presented in the last two weeks, the union budget and the post-budget monetary policy, have kicked up debates among economists and concerned public about the risks that the policy stances underwriting. These are mainly risk of a fiscal flare-up and...
Time For States To Balance Social And Industrial Development For Growth
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been advocating Gujarat Model of development for backward states to leapfrog in economic development. The left parties advocate Kerala model of development which is role model in social development particularly in health and education. But in reality if one goes...
Biden At The Shaky Helm Of An America At Crossroads
By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: 2022. This is a year which might signal the way American politics is going — towards the virtual dictatorship of a right wing cult leader, or a renewed liberal bourgeoisie democracy. The House select committee of the US Congress is thoroughly investigating the Jan 6,...
Lata Mangeshkar Is Eternal: Multiculturalism Which Shaped Her Is Gone
By Saeed Naqvi Lata Mangeshkar’s art was shaped by the fervour which accompanied independence when music, indeed culture, was freeing itself from feudal patronage, opening up spaces for democratization and a wider participation. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s father, Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan, never allowed his performances to...
Mamata Banerjee Facing First Real Challenge From Abhishek On Ideological Lines
By Ashis Biswas Never before in Bengal’s recent history, state-wide civic elections had become politically as consequential as the present round of polls now being held. On February 12 and February 27. Intriguingly, the probable outcome of these elections, a clean sweep for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), could...
Rising Suicides By Unemployed Sounds The Alarm Louder
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment in India has become a serious issue in the country since November 2016, when Modi government announced demonetization that immediately resulted in millions of the workforce jobless due to shutting down of millions of enterprises and scaling down of production by million others to...
Congress Becoming Relevant Again In Tripura On The Eve Of 2023 Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha The joining of two BJP rebel MLAs — Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Kumar Saha — to the Congress has, no doubt, given a boost to the grand old party in the north-eastern state of Tripura. It is a homecoming for the two leaders, as they...
BJP Govt Crippling The Public Sector Telecom Companies In A Planned Manner
By P Abhimanyu While placing the budget in the parliament, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, proudly announced that 5G service would be launched in this financial year. In the same breath, she announced that 5G service would be launched only by the private telecom companies. It means the public sector...
Rahul Bets On Channi As Punjab Braces For Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has declared Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM face of the Congress in Punjab, marking a departure from the party’s tradition of declaring the leader after the election. The decision was taken days after the Congress high command had sought...
