Opinion
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Supreme Court heard arguments on the validity of amendments brought by the Finance Act 2017 – A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court began the hearings on the challenge to the amendments made by the Finance Act 2017, wherein the petition argued that the bill could not have...
‘Remarkable Feat’ Label Buries Serious Concerns In The Forest
By Gyan Pathak A serious concern is buried by the Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar under his label of a ‘remarkable feat’ of increase in forest and tree cover in India by more than 130 million hectares in the last four years. His comment came after he released...
Congress Leadership Has To Be Involved More In Anti-CAA Movement
By Arun Srivastava For strategic reasons Rahul Gandhi may not have been actively participating in the anti CAA and NRC agitation, but his action would not do well to the Congress. One of the reasons may be he does not desire to get trapped in Mod-Shah accusation that...
Rebecca Bailey Emerges As A Strong Candidate For Labour Leadership
By Lamiat Sabin The left has rallied around Rebecca Long Bailey as she confirmed that she was standing to lead the Labour Party. After her announcement in Tribune on Monday night, Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery pulled back from entering the race and offered his “full support” to...
Joe Biden Is In Backfoot In Campaign Over Middle East
By John Wojcik The Trump-ordered killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s second in command, has made its way into the 2020 presidential campaign, with Bernie Sanders, on national television, stepping up his sharp criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden. Sanders singled out Biden’s record on foreign...
Will Modi now touch the Question of Population Control?
By Kalyani Shankar Will there be a move to contain India’s population explosion? After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort that “keeping one’s family small is an act of patriotism” hinting at some measures to contain the population, there were expectations...
Iilegal Bomb Factory Blasts Keep West Bengal Tense
By Ashis Biswas For the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in Bengal, its poor governance could prove a heavier political encumbrance going into the Assembly elections of 2021, even more than any challenge from the resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) .The massive explosion on January 3at Naihati, North...
Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s Bid To Cash In On Kashmir’s Long Night
By Sankar Ray The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi inspired the movement for right of Kashmiris for self-determination on 5 January 2020 in a crafty and diplomatic style, moving away from spreading anti-India venom, seen during the regimes of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and mullah-backed President Zia-ul Haq....
Urgent Need To Save Our Knowledge Institutions From Majoritarianism
By Ashish Goel What happened in JNU on the 5th is now a matter to public record with several eyewitness accounts surfacing in the public domain. The questions that must now be asked are who will take responsibility for the calculated dereliction of duty of the police, has...
Trump’s Misadventure May Lead To War Danger In West Asia
By John Wojcik Those who saw recent demonstrations against the theocratic regime ruling Iran as a good sign had their hopes setback yesterday when the funeral for the assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani drew millions into the streets of Tehran, that nation’s capital. A sea of humanity turned...
National Economy Should Take Precedence Over Politics
By Nantoo Banerjee On December 7, 2015, eighteen months the Narendra Modi government first came to power, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s global consumer and industrial products industry group posted a report highlighting its expectation about India capturing the fifth position as the world’s most competitive manufacturing nation in 2020....
Harsh Lessons From Top Court’s Judicial Passivism
By Amulya Ganguli At one time, cases of judicial activism had caused disquiet about unwarranted encroachments on executive and legislative turf, provoking much resentment among mandarins and the law-makers. Now it is different in view of the caution exercised by the judiciary on issues like Kashmir...
CAA Thorn Worries Assam Bjp Ahead Of 2021 Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha The Bharatiya Janata Party has been aiming high in West Bengal for the next year’s assembly polls — as the party hopes that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will aid it in registering its first electoral victory in the state by consolidating the Hindu...
Left Must Do More To Meet RSS Challenge
By Arun Srivastava RSS and BJP are not ready to relent and would continue with their repression on the people who stand for Constitutional rights is clearly manifest in the bloody attack on the students of JNU Sunday evening. This was carried out just within 24 hours of...
Bjp General Secretary Talks Of Violence Against Officials
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: All India BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya is talking the language of violence. Two days back, he warned that he would have set Indore on fire but for the fact that top RSS leadership was in the town. His outburst was directed at the...
Democrats Warn Trump Against Escalating War In Middle East
By Mark Gruenberg Many congressional Democrats—along with party presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren—are warning that President Donald Trump’s targeted drone assassination strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian military leader Gen. Qassim Suleimani will trigger Iranian retaliation, a regional war in the Middle East,...
Dynasty Now A Mainstay Across Indian Political Spectrum
By Harihar Swarup Among the political parties the Congress is most maligned for being a dynastic organization. But now almost all political parties have been affected by this menace except the Left parties. Look at Maharashtra: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s recent expansion of his Council of Ministers exemplifies...
Stir A Manifestation Of Widespread Discontent
By K Raveendran The nationwide protest against the citizenship law, spearheaded by students and youth, has its own irony. BJP has been the beneficiary of such an agitation between 2011 and 2013, which helped the party to be swept to power in 2014. Today, the party and its...
