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By Aditya Aamir If this was the ‘semi-final’, what will the ‘final’ throw up? BJP and Amit Shah and Narendra Modi have a thing on their shoulders, and it’s a monster – the nightmare of a 2019 defeat! A count of loss of votes in the Lok Sabha...
#Results2018: Tripple talaq for BJP? Voters overturned Jumlas? GST, notebandi mistake or error?
Congress is forming government in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan while TRS in Telangana and MNF in Mizoram. In Madhya Pradesh BJP is in close fight with the Rahul Gandhi-led party. The outcome of these elections in Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram and Madhya Pradesh would work like a litmus test of...
Narendra Modi Has Lost His Mojo After BJP Loss In State Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost his mojo after the devastating reverses faced by the BJP in the three of its ruling states- Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. The Modi magic is gone and ominous signals have been given to the BJP by the people...
Change Of Guard For Maoists Shows New Approach
By Arun Srivastava The police of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh has succeeded to eliminate a good number of Maoist cadres, but they could not quite break the backbone of Maoists in Chhattisgarh, despite severe repression using the state machinery and putting a number of innocent people in...
Corbyn Should Be A Model For European Socialists
By Ben Chacko It’s my deal or no deal is the unwelcome message that Theresa May’s little helpers have been carrying to the far corners of Torydom over this weekend. Gin and tonic-fuelled discussions in the bars of Conservative clubs up and down the shires is perhaps not...
Congress, BJP Wary Of Bid To Disturb Counting In Mp
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the major parties, Congress and BJP, are suspecting that attempts may be made to disrupt the counting tomorrow. Surprisingly, no less a person than Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan has asked party men to remain alert. Expressing confidence that BJP will be able...
BREAKING: RBI Governor Urjit Patel steps down citing personal reasons
RBI Governor Urjit Patel stepped down Monday citing personal reasons, but was earlier in a conflict with Union finance ministry related to monetary policy. Patel said, “On account of personal reasons, I have decided to step down from my current position effective immediately. It has been my privilege and...
Politics Of Exit Poll And Games Around It
By Arun Srivastava The BJP has a running grudge that the exit polls have been consistently under-projecting its tally in all elections since 2014. It is worth recalling the exit polls had forecast a BJP government in the 2015 assembly elections, but when the actual counting began the...
Trying To Make India A Cashless Society May Lead To Chaos
By Nantoo Banerjee If the world’s top ranking economies by per capita GDP and expenditure, education level, financial inclusion and digital penetration are not keen to go cashless in the face of resistance from their citizens, India’s bid to build a cashless society may be described as highly...
On The Brink At The Temple Door
By Aditya Aamir ‘Can Mandir and Vikas go together?’ is the question gaining traction after the VHP rally the other day in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, which was less a ‘Dharam Sansad’ and more a ‘Dharam (in) Sankat’ congregation. If the BJP loses Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh besides Rajasthan,...
Shivraj Chouhand confident BJP will form government in MP
Amid no clear prediction by exit polls about who will form government in Madhya Pradesh a confident comment by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan declares his party party will emerge as the next ruler in the state. Chouhan was on a three-day vacation in Bandhavgarh and while leaving for...
So, who’s got the Mojo, Rahul or Modi?
Aditya Aamir Evening of December 7, post-5 pm, BJP stood for ‘Bhag Ja Party’, with most of the exit polls predicting a hammering at the hustings. There were glum BJP faces and put-up brave BJP faces on television. At 11 pm, when the anchors signed off for the night,...
All Set For Kannur Airport Inauguration
By P. Sreekumaran A long-standing dream of the people of North Malabar will become a reality with the inauguration on December 9, 2018 of the Kannur International Airport (KIA). Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu will formally inaugurate the airport, built under...
All court decisions must be checked for ‘faults’
By K Raveendran Extraordinary circumstances must produce extraordinary responses because ordinary approaches cannot deal with such situations. The disclosure by Justice Kurian Joseph within days of his retirement from the Supreme Court is a sequence in the unprecedented turn of events that began with the ‘call of duty’ press...
Shiv Sena’s temple pitch: a secret pact with the BJP?
By Sagarneel Sinha Shiv Sena, which shares power in Maharashtra and at the Centre as a junior partner of BJP, has jumped into the chorus of raising the demand for Lord Ram’s Temple in Ayodhya — even more vociferously than the BJP — which rose to significance owing...
India’s Gain From Trade War: History Does Not Wait
By Rapti Ray & Dr. Buddhadeb Ghosh History of economic thought is abounding with numerous examples of trade related conflicts among nations. But almost all such conflicts are short-lived. In the case of ongoing US-China trade war, everything may not move in a pre-determined linear fashion. At the...
Congress Poised To Sweep Assembly Polls In Three States
By Harihar Swarup The marathon electioneering in five states has come to an end and now there is a lull before big bang when the results are declared on December 11; Parliament’s winter session incidentally also begins on that day. Both the national parties—Congress and the BJP—have put...
Healthcare Must Withstand Market Pressure
Dr Arun Mitra A lot of debate has been generated not only in the medical circles but also the civil society whether healthcare is a business or a profession. Anything that is termed as business is for profit only and could therefore be ruthless, apathetic and self-centred. The...
