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By W T Whitney Jr. On May 25, 2018, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made an announcement that Colombia has joined North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He mentioned too that Colombia was joining the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development, an international club of creditors of deeply indebted...
CPI Calls Protest Day On June 20 Against High Fuel Prices
By Nitya Chakraborty The national executive of the Communist Party of India which met at New Delhi on June 3 and 4, 2018, in party’s central headquarters Ajoy Bhavan expressed serious concern at the deteriorating economic and political situation, unbridled hikes in the prices of all petroleum products...
Shiv Sena-BJP Rift Foments Communal Tension
By Dr Bhalchandra Kango AURANGABAD: Shiv Sena had called for a Hindu ‘Shakti March’ in Aurangabad on May 19 against the city police and the home department which failed to take action against those responsible for recent mob violence here. The three wards of old city in...
Facebook In Trouble It Phoned Up A Decade Ago
By Sushil Kutty Mark Zuckerberg must not like the New York Times anymore. The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes out with this report that Facebook...
Grenades Thrown And Shortages Borne
Sushil Kutty Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on June 6, 2018, for the ninth time, clarified that there’s no “scam in Rafale”. She also reiterated that those shouting “ammunition shortage” should be asking themselves, “Who left the shortage? There was shortage before 2014.” The Raksha Mantri, in her forgotten...
Screen Fight Is Over, Now It’s Street Fight
Aditya Aamir A Kaala war is on in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Karnataka, two states with links to Kaala superstar Rajinikanth, a man whose name recognition in distant shores – Japan to Singapore to sister-city Dubai – is like ‘Hail the Queen’ in the United Kingdom, where films walk through cinema halls...
Time’s Up For BJP’s Undemocratic Choreography
By Amulya Ganguli As in London last April, Narendra Modi participated in a choreographed question-and-answer session in Singapore recently, where one of his responses was apparently to a pre-set query. The difference between the two events was that the BJP aficionado and censor board chief, Prasoon Joshi, managed...
Gossip, Rumour And Test-Tube Sita
Sushil Kutty ‘Gossip dies when it hits a wise person’s ears’, the Buddhist told the journalist who slapped a sneer and shot back, “What about rumour?” The Buddhist shifted to a different asana: “That, my friend, I’m afraid, will move on unless the wise one opens his mouth...
Rahul Gandhi Is Finally Adopting Mamata Model For 2019 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty At long last, the Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been acting as the unifier of the anti-BJP forces giving up the arrogance associated with the grand old party that it is the natural party of governance. Karnataka assembly elections results set the process and frankly...
OECD For Pushing India’s Economic Growth Engine
G.Srinivasan For the Modi Government, the celebration of the four years of corruption-free governance with the receipt of the mixed message of the latest batch of by-polls to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies across the nation behind, the crucial final year of its first term is replete with...
BJP Ministers Insensitive To Plight Of Farmers
By Arun Srivastava Like his illustrious leader, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh is also a brainy politician and can dare to come out with any statement. Taking a leaf out of his past experience, he described the two-day-old farmer agitation a publicity stunt. According to him, the...
India Emerges As World’s Top Deal-Street Performer
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s business houses and entrepreneurs are going all out to acquire companies across the world, thanks to the support from the government, RBI and banks. The global deal-street now seriously takes note of Indian bids and transactions. India’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in...
Bat-Like, Nipah Turns Kozhikode Upside Down
Aditya Aamir In Nipah-spooked Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of Kerala, the state has asked for desperate measures to handle an expected second wave of infections. Already 17 of the 20 ‘Nipah infected’, who were hospitalised, are dead. That is a kill-rate of over 89 percent, much more than...
Foolhardiness or living in a fool’s paradise?
K Raveendran Apparently it has taken nothing less than a BJP rout in the latest round of by-elections for the petroleum ministry to realise that the petrol and diesel price situation in the country was untenable. On the day the results were announced Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan is reported...
CAATSA A Recipe For Disaster To India’s Security Concerns
K R Sudhaman CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act), a new law in the U.S armoury, if implemented by Trump Administration, could have disastrous consequences to India’s security. The law provides for sanctions against India’s arms purchase from its traditional ally Russia. It is, however, a double-edged...
Government’s Silence On Drug Prices Intriguing
Dr Arun Mitra The Delhi government’s proposed regulations to cap the profit margin on several medicines and consumables at 50 percent from their procurement price is a welcome step. A committee on high trade margins on sale of drugs was formed by the government of India under...
Report Card: Four Years Of Modi Government
Harihar Swarup Modi government has completely four years in office and next year—May 2019—it will go to poll. Various ministries have come out with four years of achievements. Naturally, they have painted a rosy picture of the work done. Among the ministers, who listed their achievement, the account...
‘Farrago’ under the ‘cendre’ with ‘ankyloglossia-cured’
Sushil Kutty The “condottiere” of India’s Opposition parties are being hailed post latest bypolls. These leaders of a brand of mercenaries are under a “cendre’ right now and their supporters seem to be cured of “ankyloglossia”. Hey! What’s all that? The answer to that is these three words...
