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By Aditya Aamir So, the CAG will “save” Rafale-hit Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Monday, the CAG’s report on Rafale was handed to President Ramnath Kovind. It was to be tabled in Parliament Tuesday. Without doubt it will give hunky-dory status to the Rafale deal. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, producing...
Russians Introduce “Moscow Format” In Afghan Talks
By Sankar Ray The spectre of Anastas Mikoyan, the renowned leader of Soviet era did haunt the incredible round of negotiations at the President Hotel in Moscow on 5 and 6 February on modalities of withdrawal of foreign (not just American) troops. Participants in the consultations included representatives from...
Opposition Should Not Fall In Modi’s Trap
By Sushil Kutty It all boils down to Narendra Modi – the man, the Prime Minister, the Chaiwala. From Rahul Gandhi to Chandrababu Naidu to Arvind Kejriwal and Farooq Abdullah, everybody is making the mistake of publicly shaming Modi, forgetting that the man soaks in the humiliation and feeds...
Priyanka’s Lucknow Road Show Unnerves SP-BSP Alliance
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Impressive road show of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Lucknow has unnerved SP-BSP alliance. Massive participation of people from all castes and religions at the road show has forced to Samajwadi Party and BSP to revise their strategy to contest 2019...
Priyanka Gandhi’s high-profile entry into battle ground U.P.
By Kalyani Shankar Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has taken charge as the Congress General Secretary responsible for Eastern Uttar Pradesh last week. The state is not new to her as she has campaigned earlier also in some parts apart from looking after her mother Sonia Gandhi’s constituency Rae Bareilly and...
Kamal Nath Is Favouring Soft Hindutva As CM
By Amulya Ganguli Once an acolyte of the Congress party’s enfant terrible, Sanjay Gandhi, the new Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Kamal Nath, has had a chequered, if fairly successful, career. His latest achievement has been to deftly traverse the minefield of his party’s internal feuds in the state to...
Supreme Court Should Go For A De Novo Hearing On Rafale
By Indira Jaising From the eye-popping report published in The Hindu, it is now clear that the PMO was, in fact, in “parallel negotiations” with the French government over the Rafale deal, and that Defence Ministry officials had raised strong objections to this, saying that it had “weakened the...
Investment In New Projects Is Slowing Down
Investment In New Projects Is Slowing Down By Nantoo Banerjee Despite higher economic growth, the slowdown in industrial investment in the last five years is a major concern. New projects are fewer. While the government is busy selling its stake in the country’s most reliable public sector enterprises, the...
Punjab Govt Inks Mou With Virgo Corp For Bio-Fuel Project
By IPA Special Correspondent CHANDIGARH: Giving a major fillip to its efforts to check stubble burning and boost the renewable energy sector, the Punjab Government led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Virgo Corporation for a Rs 630 crore Biofuel project,...
Growing Enquirer “Sextortion” Scandal Could Add To Trump’s Woes
By John Wojcik Is it possible that the president of the United States could be involved in a scandal that includes threats by a notorious tabloid to release salacious photos of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post? A question like that would...
Rahul’s Visit Galvanises Madhya Pradesh Congress
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: Rahul Gandhi’s stern warning to the Chief Minister and Ministers to perform otherwise they will be replaced, declaration by Kamal Nath and Scindia that “Rahul Gandhi is the next Prime Minister of the Country”, and veteran BJP leader Ram Krishna Kusumaria embracing the Congress were...
A Contrarian Oil Price Scenario Comes True
By K Raveendran When petrol and diesel prices were heading up to their historical heights in the middle of last year, this column had made a contrarian projection (Modi’s oil stars may be turning benevolent again, June 29) that by the time Prime Minister Modi would be about to...
Confusing Voters In The Name Of Reservation
By Dr C Sadasiva Reservations for SC and ST have been there since the Constitution of India came into force. Mandal Commission was constituted by Mrs Gandhi and V P Singh initiated its implementation. In 1990s, the question of back log came before the apex court and suggestions for...
West Bengal Showdown Was A Centre-Driven Constitutional Crisis
By Harihar Swarup Manner and timing of the CBI action in West Bengal reeks of political vendetta. The graceless spectacle in Kolkata captures a drama that officers, landing up allegedly unannounced and warrantless, at the residence of the state police chief. Leave the common man; if a top police...
Democrats Start New Congressional Probe Against Trump
By John Wojcik Just a day after President Donald Trump, speaking to a world audience, declared that there would be no legislation signed by him if Congress didn’t stop investigating him, the Congress of the United States opened broad new investigations into his affairs. The investigations, which go beyond...
Kamal Nath Takes Pro-People Measures
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: On the eve of Rahul Gandhi’s visit, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath announced several populist decisions. The decisions include stipend of Rs. 4,000 per month for unemployed urban youth, 100 days employment in a year for urban youth, 10 HP electricity at half rate...
Universal Health Care Has To Be The National Mission
By Dr Arun Mitra Despite advances in health care there persist gross inequalities as far as access to it is concerned. Even today the low socio economic groups have difficulty in getting modern healthcare. Inequalities also persist in terms of geography, caste, religion and gender. High out-of- pocket expenditures,...
Need For A Leftward Shift In The Indian Polity
By B. Sivaraman Narendra Modi’s five-year record in office shows that he has confused the wave of support to him in 2014 as mass support for authoritarianism. It is now time to pay dearly for that. There may not be a visible strong anti-Modi wave yet but an undercurrent...
