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By Amulya Ganguli Which of the saffron brotherhood’s legacies can be the most damaging for the country – the anti-Muslim sentiments which it routinely fosters or its weird “pseudo-science”? A measure of its animus towards the Muslims was evident in the glorification of a convicted killer, Shambhulal...
Worsening Scenarios For BJP And NDA Partners
By Gyan Pathak BJP president Amit Shah has been going through a very tough time right from the grassroots to the national level. There is every indication that the party is not only losing a large number of seats in the coming Lok Sabha elections, but also seeing...
Pinarayi Vijayan Plays A Big Gamble
By Aditya Aamir Pinarayi Vijayan is going for broke. It’s a gamble. He has laid all his and the LDF’s eggs in the Swami Ayyappan busting basket, hoping they’ll hatch Navothana chicks and a sweep of Lok Sabha seats in GE 2019. And, not that he believes in god,...
Bangladesh’s Economic Success Under Sheikh Hasina
By Nantoo Banerjee The biggest attribute to the latest thumping election victory of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed’s Awami League and its alliance may be her government’s contribution to the south Asian country’s most impressive economic growth over the last 10 years. In 2018, the Bangladesh economy...
We will grab 300 seats in LS elections: Amit Shah
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah claims Saturday during a press conference in Tripura’s capital city Agartala the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to win 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections and about fifty will be contributed from West Bengal and northeastern region. He said, “There is no challenge...
Euro can well rise to 1.23 by year-end
The Euro has been a disaster since its birth in 1999. Its monetary pathologies led to youth unemployment rates of 50-60% in Greece, Spain and the Italian Mezzogiorno. It gave a trillion-dollar windfall to German exporters at the expense of the hapless Club Med and amplified Berlin’s diktat over...
Nath Govt Braces For Crucial Speaker Election
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: All eyes are on the first session of the newly constituted Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, which begins in Bhopal on January 7. Besides the formal agenda of administering oath to the elected members, the house will also elect its Speaker. So far MP Vidhan Sabha...
Turkish Bid To Outsmart Saudis To Woo Indian Muslims
By James M. Dorsey When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably wasn’t only thinking of Middle Eastern and other Islamic states such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. Increasingly, there is evidence that Indian Muslims, the...
Need For Clarity On What’s Not Routine For SC
By K. Raveendran Supreme Court chief justices leave their own imprint on the institution when they depart. Some of these are stamps of greatness, but there are also the good, bad and the ugly. Justice P N Bhagawati, for instance, left an indelible legacy by pioneering public interest...
Congress Not In SP-BSP Play
By Aditya Aamir Prime ministerial ambitions are driving ‘gathbandhan’ politics. News is BSP and SP will not entertain Congress on the Uttar Pradesh stage, not in a one-act play. Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav prefer to tango in tandem, don’t fancy having a Rahul Gandhi-instep. The BSP says the...
People Need Health And Education
Dr Arun Mitra The Kartarpur Corridor at the Indo Pak border is not just a religious symbol, it is a hope of millions of people across the border who have been denied the opportunity to visit their nears and dears, to have a glimpse of the places they...
Political Powerplay Over Triple Talaq Bill Unfortunate
By Harihar Swarup It is unfortunate that Triple Talaq Bill has again caught up in petty politics. It has a smooth passage in the Lok Sabha but got stuck up in the Rajya Sabha as BJP does not have majority in the Upper House. What is wrong if...
Modi to contest from Puri, not Varanasi?
Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi be choosing another temple town to contest in this Lok Sabha elections? If believed to BJP MLA from Odisha’s Padampur assembly constituency, Pradip Purohit, the answer is Yes. He may lure voters in Puri instead of Varanasi, the constituency from which he contested in...
Emancipated In Bondage Again
By Aditya Aamir After menstrual age women Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini’s wee-hour intrusion into the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, there’s need for a reckoning. One leading newspaper termed the accomplishment, “red-letter day” and “emancipation of women”. The two women broke a “long-standing taboo”, the paper declared. Hardly. The...
Controversy Over Vande Mataram Singing In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: A decision to suspend singing of Vande Matram at the state Secretariat and stop pension of MISA detainees have plunged Madhya Pradesh into a serious controversy. Both the decisions have given an opportunity to the BJP to train the guns on the newly formed Congress...
BJP Looking For New Allies In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Fed up with sustained pressure from the allies in UP, the BJP may look for other alliance partners for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Significantly both the allies — Suhaildev Bhartiya Samaj Party and Apna Dal — are accusing the BJP central leadership of...
Political Consciousness Blossoming Among Techies
By B. Sivaraman “Dear Jeff, “We are troubled by the recent report from the American Civil Liberties union (ACLU) exposing our company’s practice of selling Amazon Web Service (AWS) Rekognition, a powerful facial recognition technology, to police departments and government agencies. …This will be another...
Opposition Unity Not As Easy As It Appears
By Arun Srivastava Incongruities have appeared on the mahagathbandhan horizon over seat sharing among partners and new entrants to the alliance. These are likely to hurt the opposition unity and could even help BJP. The ‘rebellion’ of BSP chief Mayawati with SP chief Akhilesh extending oral support could...
