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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...
The Comey Modi fired up
Sushil Kutty Alok Verma takes the trophy for a CBI Director removed twice from functioning. He goes from infighting to fire fighting. The simple explanation for his reinstatement and transfer is that CJI Ranjan Gogoi had already made up his mind that Verma should go but due process ought...
BJP to give Indian citizenship to Bengali refugees in West Bengal
There are about one crore Hindu Bangladeshi refugees in West Bengal and with the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill implementation the Bharatiya Janata Party believes these population can be reached they can cash it in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The bill was easily passed in the Lok Sabha on January...
BJP Ups The Ante Against Kerala Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A frustrated BJP has upped the ante against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in the state. The reasons for the BJP’s frustration are not difficult to guess. The much-hyped Sabarimala agitation is once again losing steam. True, the agitation received a new lease...
Kauravas Through Stem Cells: Obscurantism Beyond Tolerance
By Dr Arun Mitra The statement of Andhra Pradesh University vice chancellor G Nageshwar Rao at the Indian Science Congress in Jalandhar about the birth of Kauravas through stem cell transplantation needs a critical review. “We had hundreds of Kauravas from one mother because of stem cell research...
Indian Ports And Shipping Suffer From Woeful Inadequacies
By K R Sudhaman With global trade from India now surging towards $1 trillion (exports and imports), port and shipping too have been growing rapidly in the country in the last decade or so. But port development has been vastly inadequate and none of the Indian ports figures...
Reservation For Upper Caste A Political Gimmick
By Arun Srivastava The BJP and especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasts of performing a master stroke by announcing 10 per cent extra reservation for economically weaker sections without tinkering with the quotas of the SCs, STs and OBCs. Though Modi and the BJP leaders feel the...
Mighty indian state is trapped in a rat-hole!
By B. Sivaraman It is almost a month since tragedy struck the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya when 15 miners got trapped in a rat-hole mine that got flooded from a nearby river. The rescue workers — from the state and the national disaster management authorities from the Navy,...
BJP open for alliances, cherishes old friends: Modi
Bharatiya Janata Party is lately seeking further strengthening of the NDA and probably more in the South. Interacting with booth-level workers Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the party is open to alliances. Modi was talking through video conferencing to party workers of five districts in Tamil Nadu through video...
Grey ‘Woman’ Deception In Sabarimala
By Aditya Aamir Dalit activist Kollam Manju used deception and ruse to enter the Sabarimala shrine for Ayyappa darshan much to the delight of the Pinarayi Vijayan government. So much so, Pinarayi lost the power of speech! He did not, like he had done twice before, announce to...
iOS Ad Clicks Cost More Than Android
Some scammers found out that iOS Ad clicks cost more than Android. Because of that, they created malware. The malware masqueraded infected Android devices as Apple gear. This was done in order to earn a few extra dollars. The malware, known as Andr/Clickr-ad malware, takes advantage of the demand...
