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By Kalyani Shankar While the Opposition has been touting a Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), what is happening on the ground is quite different. It is quite clear now that a Grand Alliance is unlikely and instead the parties are inclined to go for state-specific alliances. This is because the...
‘Waka Waka’ For The Prime Minister
By Sushil Kutty Behen Mayawati marked her birthday, January 15, with a presser and for millions of BSP supporters, it is ‘Waka Waka’, which translates to ‘this time’, and this election season it’s ‘this one for Prime Minister’. Never before in Indian electoral history have so many set...
Immunisation Campaign To Target 100% Children In MP
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The Measles and Rubella immunisation campaign is going to be rolled out from tomorrow. The campaign will be run for one month. This is part of the nationwide Measles and Rubella immunisation campaign, under which all children from 9 months to 15 years will be...
Berlin Pays Its Respects To Rosa Luxemburg And Karl Liebknecht
By Ben Chacko Thousands marched through Berlin on January 13 to pay their respects 100 years after the brutal murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht on January 15, 1919. Socialists from all corners of Germany and many foreign countries laid red flowers at the tombs of...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Civil Court cannot interfere in matters in which powers have been granted to the NCLT –The Supreme Court reaffirmed the jurisdiction of the NCLT in the matters for which powers have been granted to it. The case raised the question as to a dispute of title to shares should...
Ten Per Cent Quota Decision Violates Constitution
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Parliament has passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth) Amendment Bill, 2019, which sought to amend Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution, by providing 10 per cent reservation in the public employment and higher education for the economically weaker sections. The economically weaker...
New Ideas On Assam’s Future Have Merit
By Ashis Biswas Even as Assam and parts of the Northeast remain embroiled in vigorous protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, one hopeful sign is that new ideas to arrive at a balanced solution have been put forward. The fact that there has been no major outbreak...
Congress Must Not See SP-BSP As An Enemy
By Amulya Ganguli As the humiliating treatment of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the matter of seat distribution for the parliamentary polls, and the party’s defiant response show, the 134-year political patriarch is currently battling both...
Gathbandhan rocks U.P., mocks BJP
By Aditya Aamir The day after Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav sealed the SP-BSP gathbandhan for Uttar Pradesh, several you-tubers went to different parts of UP to test the impact of the gathbandhan. Impact it did, and how? ‘It rocked’, is one way to put it, sent shock waves...
Data Protection Must For EU, Russia, China And Others
By Nantoo Banerjee It is most surprising that India’s bid to enforce data localisation should be strongly contested by the European Union, which boasts one of the world’s toughest personal privacy regimes. The EU, US, Russia and China all have their ways to strongly and legally protect their...
Grand alliance of opposition parties are short term: Modi
The formation of grand alliance against Bharatiya Janata Party is just a short-term, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday during an interaction with booth-level workers from five Parliamentary constituencies in Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Modi said the opposition is trying to build their own empire while his...
Stalemate Over Govt Shutdown May Continue
By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik With the 116th Congress in session now in Washington, there seem to be four constants voters can expect in the next two years on Capitol Hill: The Democratic-run House will pass progressive legislation which will sink from sight in the GOP-run Senate...
Pinarayi’s Unsustainable Non-Development Goal
By Aditya Aamir On the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index, a Niti Ayog report ranks Kerala top of the heap, along with Sikkim, on gender-equality – scoring 69 out of 100. Does this mean Kerala can beat Sikkim to second place if women of all age...
New Ten Per Cent Quota May Face Legal Hurdle
By Harihar Swarup Now that Parliament has passed the Constitution amendment bill providing for a new 10 per cent quota for the “economically backward” among those outside other quotas, what is likely to be its fall out? Evidently, a Pandora’s Box of new quota demands is set to...
Modi government launches five-year action plan to combat air pollution
Pollution is one of the major challenges in India and considering this should get a solution the Narendra Modi government launched Friday a five-year action plan to tackle the situation in 102 Indian cities, which were earlier identified by the Central Pollution Control Board. Ministry of Environmental, Forest and...
Mayawati Promises Sleepless Nights To Modi
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It’s Not Jobs But Tokenism That Matters
By K Raveendran Symbolism has been the staple diet of Indian politics. Irrespective of whether parties believe in something or not, when it comes to public posturing they can only take a certain position. And if they dare to defy, they are doomed. Posturing is important, implementation may not be...
MP Assembly Session Held Amidst Acrimony
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The first session of the newly constituted Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha ended on a bitter note. The four-day session was marked by stormy scenes, angry exchanges and a series of walkout by the opposition. The election of Speaker and deputy Speaker was held...
