Opinion
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SC ordered the reopening of Sterlite plant set aside – The Supreme Court set aside the National Green Tribunal order, which had permitted the reopening of the Sterlite plant at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. The plant had not complied with conditions prescribed by the Tamil Nadu State Pollution Control Board...
AI And Blockchain Technology Giving Big Push To Tourism
By K R Sudhaman With tourism expected to create 50 million jobs in India by 2028, artificial intelligence and blockchain technology can play a critical role in promoting this ever growing industry particularly with more and more travellers seeking personalized services. “We are now at the cusp of time...
Corbyn Needs All Support To Bring Change
By Ben Chako The firm line taken by Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry at the weekend rally in Broxtowe gives a lead to our movement on how to respond to breakaway MPs. “Not understanding where we have come from is a bad mistake,” the Labour leader charges. He is...
Put Utmost Pressure On Pakistan But Keep Dialogue Route Open
By Nitya Chakraborty Ten days after the Pulwama attack by the suicide bomber leading to the death of more than forty CRPF personnel, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan issued a statement on Sunday urging the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give peace a chance assuring that he would...
Kashmir Needs Transition From Past To Future
By Mriganka M Bhowmick In the backdrop of heinous terrorist attack killing 41 CRPF Jawans in Pulwama, the focus of entire nation has come back to Kashmir. The anger of India has propelled a war like sentiment against Pakistan. Multiple reactive measures by India have been taken out like...
PSEs Are Buying Into Each Other To Fund Government
By Nantoo Banerjee Who is the owner of Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) — ONGC Limited or the government? Public sector oil refiner and distributor Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd continues not to recognise ONGC, its majority owner, as its present promoter company, despite Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s assertion that it belongs...
Left In Europe Must Fight As One
By Lamiat Sabin Progressive parties and movements across Europe should unite after Brexit to stamp out tax dodging and fight to end austerity, Jeremy Corbyn said on Friday in Madrid. The Labour leader told the Party of European Socialists meeting that together they could also slow down climate change...
Rights Of A Miniscule Versus Rights Of A Multitude
By K Raveendran Millions of Ayyappa devotees across the world are waiting with bated breath for the Supreme Court to resume consideration of the 65-odd review petitions on the vexed issue of women’s entry to Sabarimala. The week’s time allowed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi heading the reconstituted 5-member bench...
No Composite Strategy To Deal With Malnutrition
By Dr Arun Mitra The report published in the Drug Today Medical Times on 19thFebruary 2019 by Shri B S Rawat that 244 malnutrition deaths occurred in Delhi hospitals in 4 years is highly alarming. This report is based on the information received on an RTI information provided by...
BJP, Congress Stitch Alliances As Lok Sabha 2019 Nears
By Harihar Swarup A typical election scenario unfolds as the Congress and the BJP, the two main contestants in the coming Lok Sabha elections, have firmed up alliances with regional parties. Never before regional parties were so important as in the coming general elections. The most important alliance is...
U.S. Racism fuels turbulence in Haiti
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Beginning on February 7, Haitians have been in the streets protesting against corruption, high prices, shortages, inflation, and power outages. Demonstrators are demanding that President Jovenel Moïse, in power since January 2017, resign. Moïse blames the disturbances on “armed groups and drug traffickers” and...
Cow Vigilantism Led To 44 Deaths Till December
By Nishant Sirohi HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) in its 104-page report unveiled the horrors of cow vigilantism in India. The report reflected the impact of the so-called cow protection through vigilantism, on the society, rural economy and on the forthcoming national elections. In the quest for short term electoral...
Demand For Scrapping New Pension Scheme Growing
By B.Sivaraman If there is a single demand that commonly figured in the recent protests of the Central and State government employees, public sector workers in defence production, telecom, railways and banks as well by some workers in the private sector, it is the scrapping of the New Pension...
Medieval Indian Military History Records Communal Amity
By Anirudh Deshpande In the light of colonialist historiography on Indian history, especially the medieval period (700 – 1800 CE), Indians became accustomed to view their medieval past in communal colors increasingly from the second half of the 19th Century. This colonialist view of Indian history found its way...
Many Former Congressmen Joining Party In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s plunge into politics has enthused the rank and file of the Congress. The party has also started joining hands with smaller parties in Uttar Pradesh. The OBC- dominated Mahaan Dal has joined hands with Congress party in the presence of Priyanka Gandhi....
UDF Sitting Pretty In Malappuram
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The sailing is smooth for the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the Muslim-dominated Malappuram district, a bastion of the Congress ally, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The sitting MP, P. K. Kunhalikkutty, who is also the national secretary of the IUML, will be the...
A United Labour Party Can Only Oust Tories
By Richard Burgon Calamity after Conservative calamity brings home just what difficulty the Tories’ Thatcherite administration is in. On February 14, the Tories suffered their 10th parliamentary defeat on Brexit. So commonplace have government defeats become that many hardly bat an eyelid. Government defeats are the new norm. The...
Densification Of Villages Must For Rural Development
By K R Sudhaman Nearly 800 million of 1.3 billion Indian people still live in the over six lakh villages. If there has to be meaningful and inclusive economic development these villages have to become sustainable with adequate jobs and check urban migration. Studies suggest that villages can develop...
