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By Amulya Ganguli Unless K. Chandrashekhar Rao is playing the BJP’s game, as his critics suspect, his attempts to put together a non-Congress, non-BJP alliance do not make sense. If the real objective of the Telangana chief minister is to oust the BJP, he simply cannot afford...
Bovine Janata Party Chewing Cud
By Aditya Aamir Monday morning, ‘yuvatis’ Kanaka Durga and Bindu tried their luck at breaching the Sabarimala male bastion and failed. Sunday it was Selvi Mano and her band of 10 Chennai girls. Mano – supporter and fan of ‘chapter-and-verse’ Zakir Naik – and her group were driven...
India’s Fast Ageing Population
By Nantoo Banerjee It may appear to be odd that India’s nearly 150-million 60-plus-year old population, generally politically active though not always quite vocal, is among the country’s most neglected by the society and the government. There is no worthwhile social security for the aged. A small section...
BJP, JD(U) to contest for 17 seats each in Bihar; LJP in 6
Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United) will be contesting in seventeen seats each in Bihar while the Lok Janshakti Party of Ram Vilas Paswan to have candidates for remaining six seats. Announcing the seat sharing on Sunday the BJP president Amit Shah said NDA will send Paswan, who...
GST Council finds revenue below projection; GoM formed to study trend
Important decisions have been taken Saturday in the 31st meeting of GST Council regarding ITC eligibility criteria, exemptions issue and rate rate rationalization. Six items were downgraded from the 28 percent tax slab while 33 items from 18 percent. Services provided to Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) account holders...
Far Right Advances In Spanish Regional Elections
By Conn Hallinan In what seems a replay of recent German and Italian elections, an openly authoritarian and racist party made major electoral gains in Spain’s most populous province, Andalusia, helping to dethrone the Socialist Party that had dominated the southern region for 36 years. Vox (Voice)—a party...
NATO-Trump Row Over Afghan Troops Withdrawal
By Sankar Ray Keeping NATO-allies blindsided, US President Donald John Trump announced withdrawal 7,000 out of 14,000 troops from Afghanistan – one of the decisions disagreeing with which Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis put in his papers. However, the chief executive office at Kabul heaved a sigh of...
Attack On Privacy: Back To Square One
By K. Raveendran Authoritarian regimes tend to think they are for ever. And they create draconian rules to drive their agendas, but without realising that they could some day be at the receiving end of their own evil when they change places, which is unavoidable in any democratic set-up....
Kamal Nath Effects Massive Bureaucratic Shake-Up
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Even before his ministry is in place chief minister Kamal Nath has taken several important decisions. Besides waiving farmers’ loans, a massive bureaucratic shake up has been effected. Out of 52 district Collectors 24 have been given marching orders and many of them are believed...
40 To Do An Alamo On Sabarimala
By Sushil Kutty Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican General who led the siege of the Alamo in the 1830s, got hit by a cannon shell on his ankle, leading to the amputation of a leg, which he ordered buried with full military honours. He seems to...
Promote Generic Drugs With Effective Quality Control
Dr Arun Mitra The issue of cheap drugs and their quality has always been a cause of concern. With more than 40 percent of our population living below poverty line, if a patient needs medicines he or she has to pay more than half of her/his earning. As...
Cm Kamal Nath’s Race Against Time To Secure Congress Base
By Harihar Swarup Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath is a canny political strategist. He knows that he has no time to loose as 2019 Lok Sabha elections are not far away. The alacrity with which CM has announced the new government’s two decisions—farm loan wavers and limiting...
How RLSP’s entry makes Bihar’s Grand Alliance stronger
Lok Sabha seats sharing among parties in Bihar’s Opposition Grand Alliance seems to be intensifying following the exit of Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) from NDA and joining hands with Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party. Bharatiya Janata Party offered just two seats, below expectation of five, to RLSP...
More And More Homeless Are Dying In Britain
By Peter Lazenby Deaths of homeless people have been branded a “national tragedy” after shock figures revealed today that the number has leapt by almost a quarter in the last five years. Almost 600 people sleeping rough or in emergency accommodation died last year in England and Wales,...
Family War On Lalu’s Turf And Its Fall-Outs
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Rahul Gandhi Can Undertake A Padayatra In Bastar Region
By Nitya Chakraborty Now that the Congress has won convincingly in the state assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and formed the Government after fifteen years of rule by the BJP headed by Dr. Raman Singh, the time has come for the Congress leadership at both state and central level...
Big Brother Is Bothered His Days Are Numbered
By Aditya Aamir So, if it was not a fake encounter, then it was a genuine encounter. Or, maybe, Sohrabuddin, Tulsi Prajapati and Kauser Bi just upped and set up an encounter with the police and were shot to ribbons. The CBI court, hearing the case, acquitted the...
Fair Wage Is A Question Of Dignity For Anganwadis
By B. Sivaraman In an unusual gesture, Prime Minister Modi chose to personally announce an increase in honorarium for scheme workers like anganwadi workers and accredited social health activists (ASHAs) on 21 September 2018. He even called it a “landmark increase in remuneration”. However, the increase turned out...
