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By Arun Srivastava Desperation is writ large on the faces of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. The prospect of defeat at the 2019 Lok Sabha elections stares at their faces. For more than a year Bhagwat has been cautioning Modi to listen...
Uma Bharti quits to contest 2019 Lok Sabha elections
Following the announcement of Sushma Swaraj for not contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in 2019 the Union Minister Uma Bharti too echoed the same for herself. Bharti said she has opted to devote her time for Ram temple in Ayodhya and cleanliness of river Ganga for next one-and-a-half...
How well does modi know his onions?
By Sushil Kutty Onion prices have been plummeting these last few days and farmers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh are dumping onions in the streets. Partly, it’s their fault. They shouldn’t have heaped last year’s produce in storage bins. Now, with the new produce in, there’s an onion...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Report sought from the Chhattisgarh government on Nandini Sundar’s plea for quashing of FIR – The Chhattisgarh government had registered a case against Professor Nandini Sundar and three others for the murder of a tribal man in the Sukma district of the State. Sundar has now filed a...
Death Penalty Review Is Again On Agenda
By Amritananda Chakravorty Justice Kurian Joseph retired from the Supreme Court on 29th November, 2018, after a distinguished tenure of almost six years, being elevated to the Supreme Court in March, 2013. On 28th November, 2018, he was part of a three judge bench in deciding a criminal...
CPI(ML) Chief Favours United Struggle Against BJP
By Arun Srivastava The electoral prospect of the Indian left is not so bad as it is being projected. In 2014 the left might have suffered the severe jolt ever since its electoral debut, but the 2019 is all set to witness resurgence of the left. This...
Rahul Gandhi Emerges As Modi’s Most Formidable Challenger
By Kalyani Shankar Will Congress President Rahul Gandhi emerge as a challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls? He could, if the fortune smiles on him and if the Congress improves its position in the five state assembly polls currently going...
BJP Rule Worst Period For Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Thirty-four years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy continue to demand proper rehabilitation and adequate compensation besides proper medical treatment for ailments caused by the toxic leak. Fifteen years of the BJP government has been the...
Modi Regime’s Telecom Policies Cripple BSNL
By P Abhimanyu The entire officers and workers of BSNL are going on an indefinite strike from December 10, 2018. The All Unions and Associations of BSNL (AUAB), the umbrella organisation of all the associations of the officers and unions of workers, is spearheading the strike. ...
If BJP comes to power, intruders will be thrown out: Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah warned intruders to the country on Monday saying they will be thrown out of India if his party comes to power again in 2019. Shah was addressing a public rally in Rajasthan. He appealed the people to return Vasundhara Raje government in the state and...
Bad Days Staring At Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava Even while fighting the judicial onslaught against him and his government with his back to the wall, a group of senior leaders have initiated a move to replace Nitish Kumar. They fear that BJP will be the ultimate loser if it fights the 2019 polls...
Pinarayi’s ‘Women Wall’ Becomes Controversial
By Aditya Aamir By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)’ is a leftist group trying to push members of the caravan of Central American asylum seekers into the United States. And ‘by all means necessary’ is quite the motto of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in his quest to...
GDP Controversy Has All Facets Of Truth
By Anjan Roy The GDP controversy has brought out all facets of truth: truth, half-truths and unstated half truths. To understand what has happened one has to refer to slide 7 of the presentation on the revised GDP figures that the CSO has released. Until 2011-12, GDP was...
Farmers’ Rally On November 30 Was A Wake-Up Call For Modi
By B. Sivaraman The November 30 rally by India’s lakhs of farmers thronging New Delhi was unique in many respects. Unlike the earlier attempts at snatching national spotlight, the entire galaxy of opposition leaders—from Rahul Gandhi to Arvind Kejriwal, from Sitaram Yechury to Sudhakar Reddy and Dipankar...
Army Chief Should Not Delve Into Diplomacy And Politics
By Amulya Ganguli It is difficult to understand what the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army, General Bipin Rawat, means when he says that Pakistan must become secular if it want to come closer to India. His comment was in response to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s...
Madhya Pradesh Politicians Spend Sleepless Nights
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Even after the hectic electioneering there is no respite for politicians of both BJP and Congress. While the BJP’s worries are being caused by the flood of complaints about sabotage by rival party men, Congress is spending sleepless nights over the possibility of...
Diminishing Returns Blight BJP’s Sabarimala Stir
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The law of diminishing returns has caught up with the BJP-RSS in Kerala. That is the reason why the saffron brigade has decided to shift the venue of the agitation from Sabarimala to the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram. The ‘unkindest cut’ came from...
It’s Statistics Versus Experience
By K. Raveendran Modi came to power promising to eradicate black money and corruption by putting end to a system where the ruling elites and their cronies pocketed all the wealth while people struggled for survival. With only months to go for his term, whether it was the...
