Opinion
Appeal
The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Renaming Places, Reviving Ram Mandir Issue
By S. Sudhakar Reddy BJP governments in states and Centre is now busy in renaming cities, towns, railway stations etc. Gurgaon is renamed as Gurugram, supposed to be dedicated to Dronacharya, a cruel Acharya who insisted that Ekalavya must cut his thumb and offer as Guru Dakshina...
How To Ensure Your CMM Probe Is As Accurate As Possible
If your production line relies on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for quality control purposes, then you probably understand how important a regular stream of high-quality metrological data is for ensuring that the parts you are producing match blueprint specifications as closely as possible. Without a functional CMM, it...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Election of KM Shaji declared void – The Kerala High Court has declared the election of K M Shaji in 2016, candidate from the Indian Union Muslim League, as void on the grounds that he had indulged in corrupt practices during the assembly elections by using religion to appeal...
Sabarimala Review Is A Big Challenge To Supreme Court
By Amritananda Chakravorty The controversy around the entry to Sabarimala temple refuses to die down. Parallel proceedings are going on in the Supreme Court and in the Kerala High Court. On 13th November, 2018, the Supreme Court heard the slew of review petitions filed against its very own...
Mayawati Throws Spanner In Unity Works
By Rahil Nora Chopra Opposition parties are meeting on November 22 to discuss the anti-BJP alliance and Ashok Gehlot will meet with Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on behalf of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. But a major question that remains unsolved is whether Mayawati will go...
Democrats Have To Fight Harder Battles In 2020
By John Bachtell The outcome of the 2018 midterm elections was a big victory for the American people, Democrats, and allied movements, despite GOP gains in the U.S. Senate. Republican monopoly of government has been broken and the political terrain significantly reshaped for battles ahead, including the 2020...
BJP Rebels Harden Their Positions
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: For the first time BJP rebels are not only posing serious difficulty for the party leadership but giving vent to their feelings in such language that is alien to this party which has been claiming it was a party with a difference. ...
SC Order Deepens Kerala Government’s Dilemma
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tuesday’s Supreme Court order on the Sabarimala issue has only deepened the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s dilemma. True, the apex court has agreed to hear the raft of review petitions on January 22, 2019. But, significantly, the court has refused to...
Congress’cow Politics, Sabarimala Stand Will Upset Liberals
By Amulya Ganguli The Congress’s manifesto for the Madhya Pradesh elections would have made Jawaharlal Nehru squirm with embarrassment, especially the portion about the commercial utilisation of gaumutra (cow’s urine). Nothing defines the antediluvian, unenlightened mindset of the Hindutva brigade more graphically than its obsession with...
Chopper-lifting Trupti Desai To The Tiger’s Lair
Aditya Aamir That sense of déjà vu. Tuck it in the front pocket. What else? Ask, is there a streak of sadism in the Supreme Court? Can it explain “hearing of 49 review petitions in open court on January 22, 2019” while “make it clear there is no stay...
Aftermath Of IUML Mla’s Disqualification
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The setting aside by the Kerala High Court of the election of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator K M Shaji constitutes a severe setback for the party, which is the second most powerful constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF). The...
Finance Ministry And RBI Must Settle Differences
By Anjan Roy Running battle between the country’s central bank and the union finance ministry is matter which should not ordinarily concern the common man. It should however become a cause for worry if these start hitting the nation’s economy. From the present indications, unfortunately this is what...
Yogi Playing ‘Kamandanl’ And ‘Mandal’ Cards
From Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Finding it very tough to retain the 73 seats it won with help of allies, BJP is playing aggressive ‘kamandal’ and Mandal cards for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. CM Yogi Adityanath, who is considered to be the face of aggressive hindutva, has...
God And Devotee Waiting On Gogoi
By Aditya Aamir Imagine 4 crore people on the edge of the seat. A prayer on their lips. Malayalis! On five continents with most of them concentrated on a sliver of land, Kerala. Four crore mortals and an increasingly vulnerable deity, the celibate Swami Ayyappa, waiting for Justice...
Dress Rehearsal For 2019 As Assembly Polls In Five States Heat Up
By Kalyani Shankar Stage is set for the high stakes elections to five states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana — this week. The BJP and the Congress are engaged in an almost direct fight in most of these states. Though the results would be known...
Western Leaders Overlook Real Reasons Of World War I
By Ben Chako Every year, the most diligent promoters of Armistice Day promise something new and different. The broadcasting media, in particular, tell us they will not only be commemorating the scores of millions who perished in 20th-century wars. They will, we are assured, be looking at why...
One Hundred Years Of Armistice Day Observed Last Sunday
By Anjan Roy Europe is currently reliving through the painful memories of its history. More particularly, that part of its recent history in the first half of the twentieth century when two bloody wars had devastated the continent and decimated its population. The trigger for this looking...
BJP, Congress In Desperate Bid To Dissuade Rebels
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both Congress and BJP have initiated efforts to persuade their rebel candidates to withdraw their nominations. November 14 is the last day for withdrawal. Meanwhile, Congress has issued a document which it has chosen to call it a “Vachan Patra” instead of manifesto....
