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By Aditya Aamir Protests in Kerala against the Supreme Court order to do away with restrictions on women wanting to pray at Sabarimala should not surprise anybody. The ‘Ayappan mindset’ of the average Malayali is gender-neutral. Malayali men and women brought up in the Ayyappan tradition think alike....
CPI(M) Politburo Is Opting For Another Historic Blunder
By Nitya Chakraborty The CPI(M) leadership is at crossroads again. The majority of the politburo led by the former general secretary Prakash Karat is putting barriers in the way of an electoral understanding with the anti-BJP forces led by the Congress and in the process obstructing the course...
Tory Conference Shows May’s Dwindling Status
By Tom Hinchcliffe At Conservative Party conference, keynote speeches from senior cabinet members have shown that the Tories have simply run out of things to say. The consistent attacks on Labour and Jeremy Corbyn are so devoid of substance that any actual critique of Labour policy, particularly on...
Amit Shah Plots Third Fronts To Split Anti-BJP Votes
By Rahil Nora Chopra BJP president Amit Shah is leant to be working on a plan to form third fronts in various states to avoid a direct fight between BJP and opposition alliance. His first success probably is the launch of Shivpal Singh Yadav party in Uttar Pradesh....
Medical Council Dissolution To Be Counter-Productive
By Dr. Arun Mitra Even though dissolution of Medical Council of India (MCI) was on the cards, that it would be done so unceremoniously through an ordinance bypassing Parliament was not expected. It is unfortunate that such exercises have become routine with the government. Till date the MCI...
Two Hands In The Chop Motion
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MP Poll Scene Gets Complex With New Parties, Fronts
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As the Assembly poll dates are coming nearer, the electoral scenario has become more complicated. One month ago it was thought that the poll battle will be fought between BJP and the alliance of Congress, BSP and SP. The hopes of such...
How Technology Is Revolutionizing The Online Casino Market
Gambling online is big business. And we mean seriously big business. Well over four and a half billion pounds was spent with online casinos during 2016-2017 according to reliable reporting. So how are the best and brightest of the online brands staying ahead of their competitors? The answer is...
India’s Own Lehman Brothers Moment
By Anjan Roy So close to the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, India’s own Lehman moment had arrived, almost. Infrastructure Leasing and Finance Services, better known as ILF&S to wider public, had been teetering to a collapse because of its inability to honour...
A Look At Dipak Misra’s Tenure As CJI
By Amritananda Chakravorty Judging the judge is a difficult task. Should one only go by the judgments written by the judge or by her actions in strengthening or weakening the institutions? Sometimes, they overlap; sometimes they don’t. Looking at Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s tenure for more than one...
Bollywood’s #Metoo Moment Arrives
Aditya Aamir Tanusree Dutta and Nana Patekar is an ‘item’ though it will take a subpoena to make them admit that they are joined at the hip even if it’s to snipe at each other while failing to find allies. They are a couple because they happen to...
Saudi Arabia out of strategic partner option in CPEC: Pakistan
Saudi Arabia could not be the third-party strategic investor in the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is a flagship project called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as earlier it was announced by Islamabad. BRI is a pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping and it is...
Couple Raring For A Jallikattu Moment
Sushil Kutty Social activist Rahul Eshwar says he will lay out a mile-long ‘human carpet’ to welcome #RightToPray feminist antagonist Trupti Desai if and when she lands in Kerala to worship at Sabarimala. “She will have to step over our chests to reach Ayyappa,” he keeps telling Malayalam...
Yogi Govt On The Mat For Executive’s Shooting
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP and the Yogi Adityanath government are unnerved by the dent in image caused by country-wide reaction to killing of Apple executive Vivek Tewari by a policeman in the night when he failed to stop his car in the state capital on Friday night....
Funding Crunch Bites Congress, Opposition Parties Hard
By Kalyani Shankar The 133-year-old Congress party in its heydays would have shuddered to think of a day that it would have to resort to crowd funding to augment its finances. The cash-rich party, which had been in power for 49 of the 70 years since Independence, is...
Modi Overambitious In Fixing Growth Targets
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to be setting over-ambitious targets on economic growth. First he said India would get back to double-digit annual growth soon. Lately he made a claim that India would become $5 trillion economy by 2022. Earlier he had promised...
Futility Of RSS Supremo’s ‘Glasnost’ Homilies
By Amulya Ganguli It hasn’t taken long for the hollowness of the sermons from the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat — on accommodating Muslims in an inclusive society — to be exposed. First, an interfaith couple was attacked with a Muslim man being beaten up for being with...
The Rich Are Blowing Up $ Remittances By Indian Workers
By Nantoo Banerjee With Indian Rupee (INR) under continuous pressure due to shrinking hard currency reserves with the Reserve Bank, rising current account deficit and borrowings abroad, it may be high time that the government and the central bank take a relook at the liberalised rules on foreign...
