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By John Bachtell Trump’s State of the Union address aimed to unite a right-wing base and drive a wedge between Democratic moderates and progressives and the entire anti-extreme right-wing alliance, just as the 2020 presidential campaign gets underway. Trump spoke before a dramatically changed political landscape marked by. a...
Supreme Court Order Exposes Nitish Government
By Arun Srivastava The Supreme Court ordering transfer of the Muzaffarpur shelter home trial to Delhi is a slap on the face of the Nitish government which claims to ensure justice to its people. In shifting the case at Saket in Delhi, the apex court has demonstrated its lack...
Name Rahul Gandhi PM Candidate And Be Done With It
By Sushil Kutty Opposition unity is only skin deep. And Chandrababu Naidu’s ‘unite or perish’ warning may not register on Mamata Banerjee and the Left parties; Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav. Mulayam Singh Yadav’s ‘endorsement’ of ‘Modi for PM again’ indicates the Yadav vote-bank is divided. Akhilesh might have forgiven...
‘State Of Working India 2018’ Is A Major Report On Labour
By B. Sivaraman The Centre for Sustainable Management of the Azim Premji University, Bangalore has brought out a unique report titled State of Working India 2018, the first of an intended annual series. At first sight, it might look paradoxical and surprising that when we get very little quality...
Falling Food Prices Hitting Rural Economy
By Anjan Roy People are generally happy when prices are low; they feel even better off when prices are falling. But that could be a nightmare for the economic policy makers. Rising prices can be fought back; but it is impossible to tackle falling prices. Japan, f’or example, is...
KPCC Chief’s Offer To CPI-M Eminently Sensible
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee(KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran’s offer to the CPI(M) to have an alliance with that party in Kerala if it gives up the politics of violence is an eminently sensible idea whose time has come. It needed a lot of courage for a...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Muzaffarpur Shelter Home case transferred to Delhi – The Supreme Court has shifted the case concerning sexual assaults in the Muzaffarpur Shelter Homes from a Bihar CBI court to POCSO court in Saket, criticising its conduct and the overall management of shelter homes by the State Government. The Saket...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Starts Mobilisation Of Cadres
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: After losing power in Madhya Pradesh the BJP is again in fighting mood and started behaving as an opposition party. To begin it has held strong demonstrations to express its anger against what it described as deteriorating law and order situation in the state. BJP...
British Labour Party Proposes New Deal For Workers
By Mark Gruenberg The British Labour Party’s think tank has drafted a strongly pro-union pro-worker platform it plans to run on in next United Kingdom election and enact if it gains power. The Institute for Employment Rights’ Manifesto For Labour Law envisions re-established and strong sectoral bargaining, protection of...
Supreme Court Has No Other Option Left Now
By Amritananda Chakravorty The last few weeks have been a revelation in the context of Rafale deal. Each day a new story comes of rampant procedural violations, bypassing of India’s national security interests, diluting anti-corruption clauses, and now the most damaging news that Anil Ambani had knowledge of the...
British PM Has No New Plan As Deadline Nears
By Al Neal With each movement of the little hand, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s self-imposed deadline to deliver a renegotiated Brexit deal before Parliament seems less likely—the UK government doesn’t even expect any EU concessions by the deadline. And the palpable fear of a no-deal withdrawal grows with...
CAG Report Gives More Ammunition To Opposition
By Aditya Aamir So, the CAG will “save” Rafale-hit Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Monday, the CAG’s report on Rafale was handed to President Ramnath Kovind. It was to be tabled in Parliament Tuesday. Without doubt it will give hunky-dory status to the Rafale deal. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, producing...
Russians Introduce “Moscow Format” In Afghan Talks
By Sankar Ray The spectre of Anastas Mikoyan, the renowned leader of Soviet era did haunt the incredible round of negotiations at the President Hotel in Moscow on 5 and 6 February on modalities of withdrawal of foreign (not just American) troops. Participants in the consultations included representatives from...
Opposition Should Not Fall In Modi’s Trap
By Sushil Kutty It all boils down to Narendra Modi – the man, the Prime Minister, the Chaiwala. From Rahul Gandhi to Chandrababu Naidu to Arvind Kejriwal and Farooq Abdullah, everybody is making the mistake of publicly shaming Modi, forgetting that the man soaks in the humiliation and feeds...
Priyanka’s Lucknow Road Show Unnerves SP-BSP Alliance
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Impressive road show of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Lucknow has unnerved SP-BSP alliance. Massive participation of people from all castes and religions at the road show has forced to Samajwadi Party and BSP to revise their strategy to contest 2019...
Priyanka Gandhi’s high-profile entry into battle ground U.P.
By Kalyani Shankar Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has taken charge as the Congress General Secretary responsible for Eastern Uttar Pradesh last week. The state is not new to her as she has campaigned earlier also in some parts apart from looking after her mother Sonia Gandhi’s constituency Rae Bareilly and...
Kamal Nath Is Favouring Soft Hindutva As CM
By Amulya Ganguli Once an acolyte of the Congress party’s enfant terrible, Sanjay Gandhi, the new Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Kamal Nath, has had a chequered, if fairly successful, career. His latest achievement has been to deftly traverse the minefield of his party’s internal feuds in the state to...
Supreme Court Should Go For A De Novo Hearing On Rafale
By Indira Jaising From the eye-popping report published in The Hindu, it is now clear that the PMO was, in fact, in “parallel negotiations” with the French government over the Rafale deal, and that Defence Ministry officials had raised strong objections to this, saying that it had “weakened the...
