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By Subrata Majumder Gone are the days when the US sneezes, Japan gets a cold. Today, Japan can say ‘No’ to US. Despite USA’s grave concern over the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, the recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China shows Japanese willingness to...
Supreme Court’s Latest Directive On Rafale Is Ominous For Modi
By Nitya Chakraborty Bad days are staring at the Narendra Modi Government just six months before the scheduled elections to the Lok Sabha. The CBI administration is in tatters, both the top bosses of this premier investigation agency of the country, are fighting in courts, the RBI...
Rahul ‘Submits’ A Headache To Kerala Cong Leaders
By Aditya Aamir If nobody has noticed so far, there’s something about Rahul Gandhi that has largely gone unnoticed. He is one of those individuals least “self-aware” among politicians. Bet the mirror is no great shakes for the Congress president. The stubble and the creased loose kurta-pyjama does...
Modi-Shah’s Pre-Poll Temple Plank: Ayodhya, Sabarimala
By Amulya Ganguli In the absence of “achhey din”, the BJP has had no option but to turn to its standard formula aimed at consolidating the Hindu voters – the “core” section of the communal-minded as well as the generally conservative groups – by playing the temple card....
MP Political Wind Blows In Congress Favour
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Recent political developments in Madhya Pradesh seem to indicate an improvement in Congress chances in the coming Assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Indore, the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh, where he addressed a public meeting and held road shows, reportedly received...
Brazil’s Newly Elected President Is A Threat To Latin American Left
By Nitya Chakraborty As expected, the far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party won last Sunday’s Presidential elections in Brazil securing 55.1 per cent of the total votes over his rival Fernando Haddad of the Leftwing Workers Party’s 44.8 per cent. The difference is...
BJP President Drops The Pretence In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP president Amit Shah has let the cat out of the bag at last. The pretence that the Sabarimala struggle is only to protect the rights of the believers has been dropped. Shah’s highly provocative speech at Kannur, the hotbed of CPI(M) politics,...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court restricts the sale of crackers: Short of a complete ban, the Supreme Court restricted the sale of crackers by fixing the time of bursting of crackers, i.e., on Diwali and other religious festivals, crackers could be burst only from 8pm to 10pm, while on Christmas and on...
Chokeholds On Faith With Law Measured
By Aditya Aamir When we are in a room, there will be ideas thrown about, diverse thoughts. Free speech and free thought. But you want conformity. Linear thought. Your view should prevail. The courts should read your mind and rule accordingly. Sabarimala or Ayodhya, it doesn’t matter. Babri...
West Bengal Too Poor To Handle Rohingya Influx
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the unending economic stagnation and a crippling lack of resources are making it difficult for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to keep her populist commitments to displaced Rohingyas of Myanmar or suspected ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ in Assam. Ever in the forefront of the...
Cut And Thrust Between Rbi And Government
By Anjan Roy The Reserve Bank of India has plunged headlong into a battle with the government over its independence. Last week, the RBI had a meeting of its board of directors where the government and nominee directors have reportedly strongly criticised the central bank’s handling of the...
Coup Against PM Ranil Wickremesinge Lands Sri Lanka In Soup
By Kalyani Shankar The world is shocked about what is happening in Sri Lanka after President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed his predecessor Mahinda Rajapakse as the new Prime Minister after sacking Ranil Wickremesinge last Friday ending in a constitutional crisis. The New York Times described the aftermath...
India Looking For More Investment From Japanese Medium Units
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral summit with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 29 has sought to significantly alter te nature of Japanese investment in India by focusing on more job oriented projects by the Japanese Medium & Small Scale units as against...
Asuras And Atheists In God’s Own Country
By Aditya Aamir BJP President Amit Shah Saturday arrived in Kerala, the “maiden passenger” on the “maiden flight” to the “maiden airport” in Kannur, and warned Chief Minister Pinnarayi Vijayan that “perpetrating Emergency-like atrocities” on “ready-to-wait maidens”, mothers and sisters of Kerala will be fought with all...
Ram Can Wait, Says Supreme Court
By Aditya Aamir The media and political build-up was cut short abruptly. Almost laconically, CJI Ranjan Gogoi read out the order. The matter will be listed in January to decide which court and when this matter will be heard. It can be heard in January or February...
Minor Partners May Unsettle Nitish Calculations
By Arun Srivastava The Lok Sabha elections for 2019 in Bihar promise to be a significant political battle between the backward and upper castes. There is simmering discontent in all the caste groups, irrespective of their class character and economic profile that the coalition governments have failed to...
Supreme Court Has To Protect Sanctity Of Institutions
By Amritananda Chakravorty Not a week goes without reports about the deliberate destruction of the autonomy and robustness of the institutions critical for the Indian democracy. Last week was the turn of the Central Bureau of Investigation (‘CBI’), aka ‘caged parrot’. No one was under any illusion about...
India And Power Struggle In Sri Lanka
By Barun Das Gupta The political storm that was brewing in Sri Lanka for quite some months under an apparently tranquil surface has now broken out in full force. In a quick succession of events, President Maithripala Sirisena has dismissed his prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed...
