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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...
Modi Left With A Hindu Bellyache
By Sushil Kutty The gut has feelings. The 10 per cent EWS Quota (124 Amendment) Bill was bound to happen. The Ayodhya title suit hearing was bound to see further delay. Jobs or the lack of jobs are an election issue. Ram Mandir butts in and is pushed...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court dismisses petition for day-to-day hearing in Ayodhya case – The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking speedy hearing in the Ayodhya land dispute. The petition cited the delay that had already happened and the feelings surrounding the issue prevailing in the nation as the reason for...
Reinstatement Of CBI Director Is A Big Indictment Of Modi Govt
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 8th January, 2019, after much anticipation, the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the removal of Alok Verma as CBI Director, wherein the three judge bench headed by the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi quashed the order dated 23.10.2019 passed by the Central Vigilance Commission...
Modi Govt Amends Trade Unions Act In A Hurry
By Raman Swamy It was one of those surreal moments in Parliament. Outside more than two crore workers of the country were on an all-India strike. Inside the Lok Sabha, a bizarre Bill to amend the Trade Unions Act was being discussed to determine the criteria for recognition...
Successful General Strike Will Impact Lok Sabha Polls
By B. Sivaraman Will the impact of General Strike of 8-9 January reverberate in general elections? A general strike barely three months before general elections, that too stretching for two days, is bound to assume special significance no matter whether it is a total success or not in...
American Capitalists Are Split On Trump
By Rick Nagin The resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in late December represents a qualitatively new stage in the split in the U.S. monopoly capitalist ruling class. There now are two distinct groups, differing in fundamental ways in their foreign and domestic policies. First, there are...
MP Speaker’s Election Marred By Bitterness
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Billed To Woo Voters For BJP
By Aditya Aamir Tuesday the 10% EWS quota amendment bill got the Lok Sabha nod despite adding to the laughing stock piled against the Narendra Modi government outside Parliament. Likely headlines ranged from ‘A Steal’ to ‘Finally.’ Every party when in power attempted to give economically weaker sections...
