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Assam NRC deadline not to be extended beyond 31stJuly – The Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline for the publication of the final National Register of Citizens for Assam beyond 31 July. The State Co-ordinator informed the Court that due to the impending general elections, the finalisation of...
Supreme Court Upholding Insolvency Code Is A Big Relief
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a keenly watched matter, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) last week in its entirety. The IBC was enacted in 2016 with the intention to amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate...
Bihar Lags Behind In Education Status, Reveals Report
By Arun Srivastava Ever since Nitish took charge as Bihar chief minister he has been claiming that he succeeded to reach education to the door steps of the poor and empower them. In the initial years of his rule he had provided some incentives, books, dress and cycle to...
Tharoor Gets The Yogi Cabinet’s Goat
By Aditya Aamir Congress MP of Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor is a naughty Malayali. He took to microblogging site Twitter to taunt Yogi Adityanath. At the Yogi taking a holy dip at the Kumbh. Encircled by his Cabinet. Water splashing, the camera catching the splashes in the light of the...
Encircling And Circling Of The Wagons
By Sushil Kutty The Modi government should have taken the decision in 2014 and not waited till January 2019 election-eve: Use Ram Mandir as propeller to catapult BJP-led NDA to another term in office. Blame it on Rahul Gandhi and Congress. If Rahul Gandhi had not announced ‘basic minimum...
A Recipe For Achhe Din Through Cement
By Nilanjan Banik As India heads for election, issues relating to jobless growth and farm distress are haunting the NDA government. The common perception is both these factors are responsible for widening income inequality in India. Oxfam International Report 2019, however, argues this worsening income distribution is a global...
Priyanka Gamble May Only Cost Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha Since the induction of Priyanka Gandhi, who resembles her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, into the battle of Uttar Pradesh officially as the Congress general secretary, the grand old party has been in a jubilant mood. Priyanka’s entry to the party was never doubted;...
Yogi approves longest expressway connecting Prayagraj with western UP
Uttar Pradesh is set to get two new expressways and one is to be counted as the longest in the world, about 600-km long. Known as the Ganga Expressway, the longest expressway is to connect Prayagraj with western districts of UP. It will touch Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Unnao, Kannauj,...
Domestic Investors Continue To Avoid West Bengal
By Subrata Majumder West Bengal has so far organized four Bengal Global Summits and the fifth one is on the way in February. Sarcastically, each summit raised big hopes for investment, but all those hopes were belied. In the previous summit, big houses queued up and they were...
BJP Engineering Dalit Division Using Sub Castes
By Arun Srivastava Ever since the 2017 UP assembly election, BJP has been trying to counter Ambedkar’s influence by projecting some lesser known dalit leaders and trying to exploit the differences amongst dalit sub castes. The party probably feels that playing up the sub caste icons will...
Too Early To Cheer For The Political Priyanka
By Amulya Ganguli Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into big-time politics from having been a part-time caretaker of the two family boroughs of Amethi and Rae Bareli of the Nehru-Gandhis has set the cat among the pigeons. Those in the BJP who thought that Rahul hasn’t yet matured sufficiently...
Time Ripe For Rahul Gandhi To Declare Himself As A Socialist
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress President Rahul Gandhi has touched the right cord by announcing at a Party rally in Raipur on Monday that the Congress, if elected to power after the coming Lok Sabha elections, will implement the minimum income programme for the poor. If the declaration...
Tantrum-Throwing AICC Official Puts Party In A Fix
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: On the eve of Lok Sabha elections strange things are happening in both Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. Deepak Bavaria, AICC in-charge, has announced his resolve to initiate contempt proceedings against his party leaders. Bavaria made this announcement while speaking at a party...
Hero For Whom The Trolls Toll
By Aditya Aamir Malayalam actor Mohanlal is troll-meat in Kerala. “Mohanlal gets the Padmabhushan; why not actor Mammootty?” asks Social Media. Mohanlal is trolled by good trolls. The justification is Mohanlal asked for it. And what gall BJP-fronted government award him the Padmabhushan? How dare he accept saffron-tinted...
Another Helping For Desi Oliver Twist
By Sushil Kutty Bribing voters from public podium! How will it be done without plunging the country’s economy in a tailspin? The economics doesn’t agree with the arithmetic; hell, the econometrics is beyond the math. But then, who cares how it’s done, so long as it’s done? It’s...
A Crusader’s Double-Speak On Women’s Right
By Aditya Aamir Can the police raid the office of a political party if they receive information that accused named in a criminal investigation are holed up in the party office? What if the political party happens to be the ruling party and the Chief Minister is also...
Trump Is Forcing Regime Change In Venezuela
By Fiona Edwards The Venezuelan people are facing a grave and dangerous situation, as the US dramatically escalates its campaign to oust Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Donald Trump’s decision on January 23 to recognise the unelected right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s “interim president” is confirmation that...
Minority Psyche Gets Hurt During National Day Celebrations
By Arun Srivastava Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who incidentally happens to represent Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, should take serious note of the advisory issued by the Darul Uloom Deoband appealing to its students to avoid travelling on Republic Day if possible. The advisory was issued...
