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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...
Investment In New Projects Is Slowing Down
Investment In New Projects Is Slowing Down By Nantoo Banerjee Despite higher economic growth, the slowdown in industrial investment in the last five years is a major concern. New projects are fewer. While the government is busy selling its stake in the country’s most reliable public sector enterprises, the...
Punjab Govt Inks Mou With Virgo Corp For Bio-Fuel Project
By IPA Special Correspondent CHANDIGARH: Giving a major fillip to its efforts to check stubble burning and boost the renewable energy sector, the Punjab Government led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Virgo Corporation for a Rs 630 crore Biofuel project,...
Growing Enquirer “Sextortion” Scandal Could Add To Trump’s Woes
By John Wojcik Is it possible that the president of the United States could be involved in a scandal that includes threats by a notorious tabloid to release salacious photos of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post? A question like that would...
Rahul’s Visit Galvanises Madhya Pradesh Congress
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: Rahul Gandhi’s stern warning to the Chief Minister and Ministers to perform otherwise they will be replaced, declaration by Kamal Nath and Scindia that “Rahul Gandhi is the next Prime Minister of the Country”, and veteran BJP leader Ram Krishna Kusumaria embracing the Congress were...
