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By K Raveendran By restoring the provision for summary arrest of people accused of atrocities against dalits and backward classes, the Modi government has solved a major political challenge to its credibility, but left open even a more serious judicial question: can a legal principle be applied selectively? The...
Post-Karunanidhi Era Seems Uncertain For Tamil Politics
By Harihar Swarup How will the political scenario unfold in Tamil Nadu after Karunanidhi? The Tamil state has already seen how the events shaped after demise of Jayalalithaa. A well entrenched party like AIADMK is on the verge of split and it has been reduced to minority in the...
The Whole Caboodle Is In A Triple-T Mess
By Aditya Aamir Got to get worse before it gets better! That’s the short history of the war against Triple-T, the obnoxious divorce handout which Indian Muslim husbands hold over the heads of defenceless Muslim wives. Is it possible that these male hobos will be hoisted with their own...
Dam It, Nature Is A Real Rascal
Sushil Kutty Time 12.20 pm. Twitter handle @pendown warned “4.25 lakh liters of water is gushing out per second from Idukki dam. In four hours waters will reach Aluva.” And Aluva is not far from Kochi. From the Kerala Express, sight of the chimneys of brick mills signal the...
Jailed Lula Nominated As Presidential Candidate
By Emile Schepers The Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) of Brazil has decided to run the country’s extremely popular former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known by all as “Lula,” as its candidate in the October presidential elections in this nation of 200 million people. The...
Big Confusion Over Minimum Wage Implementation In Delhi
By B. Sivaraman “The Hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” Repeating these words of Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland, the Delhi High Court in its judgment on 4 August 2018 set aside the 14 September 2016 Delhi government notification on minimum wages, which increased the minimum wages...
Narendra Modi’s Rafale Deal Shows His Utter Dislike For Public Sector
By Nitya Chakraborty More and more details are coming out of the controversial deal concluded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jet planes for the Indian defence forces and it is apparent that the Prime Minister has totally sacrificed the interests...
Indian High Commissioner Seeking Assurance From Imran Khan Action Against LeT
Before the swearing ceremony of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan as the next prime minister of the country the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria is learned to be calling him for a meeting on Friday. Sources claim the meeting has been finalized and prior to it only...
Indiatech Appoints Rameesh Kailasam As CEO
By IPA Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: IndiaTech.Org, a non-profit, voluntary industry association established with the objective of creating a strong and vibrant internet based tech and innovation ecosystem in India, has appointed Rameesh Kailasam as its CEO. Rameesh Kailasam is a highly experienced and well-regarded technology, innovation, governance and...
Politics In The Name Of Development
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders lose no opportunity to hawk the delights of cooperative federalism. However, the gap between their public pronouncements and practice remains infuriatingly yawning. Not surprisingly, Kerala has once again borne the brunt of their blatant assault on cooperative federalism. In...
Akhilesh Says Ready For Any Sacrifice To Unite Opposition
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has declared the he is prepared to make any sacrifice to achieve the goal of dislodging BJP from the Centre and he is very confident that the alliance of SP, BSP, RLD and Congress will materialise very soon. Akhilesh...
India’s Foreign Policy Comes Of Age Under Modi
By Rapti Ray & Dr. Buddhadeb Ghosh The ‘Prime Minister stays in foreign countries and occasionally visits India.’ Such is the allegation of opposition parties against Narendra Modi. But they are not admitting the fact that India’s foreign policy for the first time since 1947 has reached a youthful...
Hindi Or Tamil, Language Requires A Tongue
By Aditya Aamir Wednesday, a Tamil scholar won the day, posthumously. Thursday, a Hindi aficionado was chosen Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson. A balancing of languages! One as old as the tongue. The other still flung on faces where it’s yet to ring. The English medium is still looking for...
NRC In Assam Big 2019 Electoral Tool For Modi-Shah
By Amulya Ganguli Inadvertently, the Supreme Court has handed the BJP a convenient issue for exploitation in the forthcoming elections. It is the judiciary’s call for updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam which is bound to add zest to the BJP’s campaign against illegal immigrants, enabling...
Babus Put Together A Wishy-Washy E-Commerce Policy
By G. Srinivasan India’s policy wonks and mandarins in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry have at long last woken up from their feigned slumber to put in place a draft National Policy on Electronic Commerce (e-commerce) a few days ago. This draft with warts and all would now...
India And Trump’s Trade War Gamble
By B. Sivaraman “US-China trade war can make Indian products competitive”— declared some newspaper headlines on 5 and 6 August 2018, reproducing verbatim the press release of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). One started wondering why the premier industry chambers in the country should just restrict itself to...
IMF Says India Needs To Reinvigorate Efforts To Keep Job Engine Running
By Gyan Pathak India will need to build on the success of its reforms to sustain rapid growth and raise incomes for the country’s 1.3 billion people, though the economy is gaining momentum. With a growing working-age population, which constitutes about two-thirds of the total population, India needs to...
Loss Of Chanakya Puts T N Politics In Greater Disarray
By S Sethuraman Age has been taking a toll of leaders of substance at a critical juncture for Indian democracy, under threat of being overrun by divisive forces led by BJP-RSS. A virulent campaign by them is on for a second term of governance at the Centre to facilitate...
