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Quota for economically weaker sections (EWS) could work like a masterstroke for Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. It is one of the several big moves and good leap for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in unfurling significant schemes. BJP is seeking to offer a quota of...
Making money with software shares in 2019
MI have gone gaga on software shares since 2013, when Satya Nadella redefined Microsoft – and tripled the valuation of the Evil Empire of Redmond in the next five years. True, Microsoft was the best Big Tech performer of 2018, an annus horribilis for the best and brightest of...
Bihar Caste Battle To Take Control Of Economy
By Arun Srivastava Bihar is one of the most complicated states in the country, where caste is presumed to define the character of the politics. But in reality that is not the case. It is class that dictates state politics. The Lok Sabha elections for 2019 in Bihar...
SP-BSP Arithmatic In Uttar Pradesh Is A Winning Deal
By Kalyani Shankar It is often said ‘Uttar Pradesh is India and India is Uttar Pradesh’. A win in India’s most populous state, can be a game-changer in national elections for any party, as it accounts for 80 out of 545 parliamentary seats. Also UP has gifted many...
Socialism More Popular Now Among Russians
By Gavin Mendel-Gleason Two decades of polling by the Levada Centre, a Russian NGO, show that the majority of people in Russia regret the downfall of the USSR. It is mainly economic and social reasons that fuel this regret. This year, positive sentiment towards the Soviet Union has...
New Climate Deal Can Create Huge Green Jobs
By Norah Vawter Lately, there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the...
So, what will be modi government’s worst legacy?
By Amulya Ganguli Which of the saffron brotherhood’s legacies can be the most damaging for the country – the anti-Muslim sentiments which it routinely fosters or its weird “pseudo-science”? A measure of its animus towards the Muslims was evident in the glorification of a convicted killer, Shambhulal...
Worsening Scenarios For BJP And NDA Partners
By Gyan Pathak BJP president Amit Shah has been going through a very tough time right from the grassroots to the national level. There is every indication that the party is not only losing a large number of seats in the coming Lok Sabha elections, but also seeing...
Pinarayi Vijayan Plays A Big Gamble
By Aditya Aamir Pinarayi Vijayan is going for broke. It’s a gamble. He has laid all his and the LDF’s eggs in the Swami Ayyappan busting basket, hoping they’ll hatch Navothana chicks and a sweep of Lok Sabha seats in GE 2019. And, not that he believes in god,...
Bangladesh’s Economic Success Under Sheikh Hasina
By Nantoo Banerjee The biggest attribute to the latest thumping election victory of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed’s Awami League and its alliance may be her government’s contribution to the south Asian country’s most impressive economic growth over the last 10 years. In 2018, the Bangladesh economy...
We will grab 300 seats in LS elections: Amit Shah
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah claims Saturday during a press conference in Tripura’s capital city Agartala the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to win 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections and about fifty will be contributed from West Bengal and northeastern region. He said, “There is no challenge...
Euro can well rise to 1.23 by year-end
The Euro has been a disaster since its birth in 1999. Its monetary pathologies led to youth unemployment rates of 50-60% in Greece, Spain and the Italian Mezzogiorno. It gave a trillion-dollar windfall to German exporters at the expense of the hapless Club Med and amplified Berlin’s diktat over...
Nath Govt Braces For Crucial Speaker Election
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: All eyes are on the first session of the newly constituted Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, which begins in Bhopal on January 7. Besides the formal agenda of administering oath to the elected members, the house will also elect its Speaker. So far MP Vidhan Sabha...
Turkish Bid To Outsmart Saudis To Woo Indian Muslims
By James M. Dorsey When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that Turkey was “the only country that can lead the Muslim world,” he probably wasn’t only thinking of Middle Eastern and other Islamic states such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. Increasingly, there is evidence that Indian Muslims, the...
Need For Clarity On What’s Not Routine For SC
By K. Raveendran Supreme Court chief justices leave their own imprint on the institution when they depart. Some of these are stamps of greatness, but there are also the good, bad and the ugly. Justice P N Bhagawati, for instance, left an indelible legacy by pioneering public interest...
Congress Not In SP-BSP Play
By Aditya Aamir Prime ministerial ambitions are driving ‘gathbandhan’ politics. News is BSP and SP will not entertain Congress on the Uttar Pradesh stage, not in a one-act play. Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav prefer to tango in tandem, don’t fancy having a Rahul Gandhi-instep. The BSP says the...
People Need Health And Education
Dr Arun Mitra The Kartarpur Corridor at the Indo Pak border is not just a religious symbol, it is a hope of millions of people across the border who have been denied the opportunity to visit their nears and dears, to have a glimpse of the places they...
Political Powerplay Over Triple Talaq Bill Unfortunate
By Harihar Swarup It is unfortunate that Triple Talaq Bill has again caught up in petty politics. It has a smooth passage in the Lok Sabha but got stuck up in the Rajya Sabha as BJP does not have majority in the Upper House. What is wrong if...
