By Nitya Chakraborty The Summit on the country’s Public Sector Enterprises has called to the PSEs to enhance their geostrategic reach through the implementation of a number of recommendations including bigger thrust on exports, for achieving the Prime Minister’s goal of building a New India by 2022.The Summit...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Post Ayodhya verdict, Muslim community is debating in Uttar Pradesh which party to support in future. It would be worth mentioning that with presence of 20 per cent in total population of Uttar Pradesh the Muslim community plays important role in vote politics....
By Jastra Ilic German companies are plagued with an increasing number of cyber-attacks and IT security incidents. According to PreciseSecurity.com research, 75 percent of them have been affected by some sort of IT security incidents in 2019, causing total damage of €102.9 billion this year. The statistics...
By Ben Chacko The British left can sometimes worry too much about what bosses’ federation the Confederation of British Industry makes of its plans. Big business always likes the claim that a rising tide lifts all boats, that good times for the owners mean good times...
By Nantoo Banerjee If the centre wants to disinvest its entire 53.3 percent stake in Bharat Petroleum, a ‘Fortune 500’ company, it’s the government’s call. Nobody, except probably its 12,000-odd employees, is really opposed to it. BPCL’s total assets are valued at Rs.1,36,930 crore or worth US$20 billion....
By Amulya Ganguli With the executive, legislature and judiciary more or less on the same page, the BJP can be said to be on a dream run. But the oddity is that it isn’t. The reason is that democracy allows hoi polloi to follow a line of thinking...
By Barun Das Gupta In a way, the outcome of the presidential election in Sri Lanka, held on November 16, was decided as far back as April 21, Easter Sunday, when Islamist terrorists killed 259 persons in a series of attacks on three churches, three luxury guest houses...
By Ashis Biswas For the much harassed Hindus and Muslims in Assam suspected of being illegal Bangladeshi settlers, there is now a glimmer of hope: in recent days, authorities have released 20 people held in endless detention long after serving their 3 year sentences, from special camps in...
By Ben Chako Bolivia’s coup regime seems determined to drown the opposition in blood. Protesters demonstrating for the return of elected president Evo Morales have been gunned down in La Paz and while marching on Cochabamba. Accurate figures are hard to come by, since the Bolivian government...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Death of Abdul Jabbar, a champion and a darling of thousands of gas victims, after a prolonged illness, has exposed the poverty of medical facilities for the gas hit in Bhopal. Jabbar fought for the rights of the gas victims from the very...
By Harihar Swarup A last ditch attempt is being made by Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress to prepare common ground to form the government in Maharashtra while President’s rule has already been imposed on the state. It is too early to say if a coalition will...
By K Raveendran A famous — but not so famous – editor of Delhi was known to ring up his erstwhile colleagues, who were not as lucky as him to rise to the top position, every morning his editorial appeared to check whether they had read his latest...
By Anjan Roy Leaked reports over estimates of consumer spending is sending shockwaves across the economy and the political spectrum A report that consumer spending has fallen in 2017-18 compared with 2011-12 has created serious concerns. Monthly consumption expenditure of the average rural household has fallen to...
By Satyaki Chakraborty What will happen to the Indian economy in 2022 the year Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted as the period of achieving his New India? The way things are developing, it might be the year for building a Hindu rashtra — the sacred goal...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court’s verdict on the sensitive Sabarimala issue has placed the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in a difficult position. The apex court on Thursday referred petitions seeking a review of its order issued on September 28, 2018 allowing women of...
By Arun Srivastava Barely a month left for the general election to elect a new parliament, the political credibility of the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has turned suspect in the eyes of the common Britishers. This primarily owes to Boris’s motive to conceal and suppress the report on...
By Ashok B Sharma Since the partition of the country, India-Pakistan relationship is marked by continuing mistrust, unresolved issues, broken promises and unending conflicts. In between any thaw in this relationship is viewed with much excitement and hope in the country. But this time the opening of...
By Adv. C. Adhikesavan Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students are up in arms against the ruling regime. JNU is under attack once again from the Sangh Parivar’s fascist ideology and atrocities. Fee hike is the outcome of the draft education policy of Union government to commercialise and corporatize...