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Shia Waqf Board surrenders claim to Ayodhya Land – During the hearings of the Babri Masjid demolition case last week, in a surprising development, the Shia Central Board of Waqf decided to surrender its claim to the temple land in the interest of the ‘integrity of the country’. The...
Congress In Kerala Scores A Self-Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala has scored a self-goal, to put it in the prevailing mood of football fever. The reference is to the move by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s (KPCC) ‘Vichar Vibhag’ to celebrate the ‘Ramayana month’ to ‘liberate Ramayana from the clutches of...
Supreme Court Bench Receptive To Protecting Rights For Gays
By Amritananda Chakravorty The much awaited hearings in the constitutional challenge to Section 377, IPC began last week before the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, presided by Chief Justice Dipak Mishra, and Justice Rohington Nariman, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, and Justice Indu Malhotra. The...
Labour Issues Will Play A Key Role In Monsoon Session Of Parliament
By Nitya Chakraborty The monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 18 is set to witness fierce battle between the NDA government led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a number of key policies including labour issues, especially the centre’s bid for privatization of the public sector companies...
High Tax Rates Inducing Tax Evasion, Avoidance
By Nantoo Banerjee The population count is around 1.3 billion. The national GDP is close to $2.6 trillion. India, the world’s sixth largest economy, is growing at well over seven percent. Big spenders number nearly 250 million. The domestic air traffic growth, last year, was close to 20...
Nitish’s Prohibition U-Turn To Please BJP
By Arun Srivastava The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday but the verdict was passed at the get together of some senior BJP leaders at the residence of a national leader a couple of months ago. The BJP leaders attending the session demanded that the...
The Unseemly ‘Noise’ Over Taj Mahal
By K Raveendran A day before senior Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjan Gogoi spoke about the need for ‘noisy judges and independent journalists’, describing them as democracy’s first line of defence, a bench of the apex court made noise over Taj Mahal. It was not clear whether the...
Centre Should Pay Heed To Supreme Court’s Warning On Taj Mahal
By Harihar Swarup The Supreme Court is rightly concerned over the “apathy” of the Centre and the U.P. government towards preserving the Taj Mahal. It gave an ultimatum to the government— either restore the pristine beauty of the Taj or demolish it. The apex court has been monitoring...
Trump Is Treating India As A Client State
By Barun Das Gupta The Trump administration has imposed a fresh sanction on Iran and issued a peremptory diktat to “all Asian countries”, including India, to bring down Iranian oil imports to ‘zero’ by November 4. This is nothing but imposing sanctions on Iran unilaterally. It is illegal...
Brazilian Right Determined To Keep Lula In Jail
By Emile Schepers On Sunday July 8, there was brief elation on the Brazilian left as it appeared as if former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, known to all as just “Lula,” would be released on a writ of habeas corpus from a prison in Curitiba where...
Nitish’s Game Plan Fails To Deliver
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar’s election strategist Prashant Kishore’s Mumbai mission failed to make Lalu Prasad forgive his ‘younger brother’ for his betrayal and embrace him once more. As the political emissary of Nitish, his election strategist was flown to Mumbai with the task of assuaging Lalu’s feeling...
BJP Scouts For Allies In Politically Fluid Tamil Nadu
By S. Sethuraman BJP’s master strategist Mr Amit Shah has seemingly laid the groundwork for an effective entry for his party in Tamil Nadu into the impending electoral games, during his visit to Chennai on July 10. The immediate goal for the BJP President is to make up...
Kamalnath Puts MP Congress On Election Mode
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: MP Congress president Kamal Nath has a certain mastery over the art of fighting elections. Barring once, he never tasted defeat in the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency, which he holds since 1980. Nath is now using his expertise to gear up the state Congress...
And They Say He Is A Wordsmith
By Aditya Aamir The Malayali is a global citizen. Some call the Malayali the ‘Sardar’ of the South. Like the Sikh, Malayalis are found in all corners of the Earth. The Gujarati, too. But the Malayali temperament kind of matches that of the Sikh. This is a viewpoint....
China Opens To World As Trump Erects Protectionist Walls
By John Bachtell The Trump administration’s declaration of a trade war with China has implications for that country’s latest round of ambitious economic reforms as well as for global economic development generally. China refuses to be bullied by Trump’s imposition of $34 billion in tariffs and the threat...
A Traumatic Interregnum In Pakistan
By Sankar Ray The cowardly assassination of two functionaries of the Awami National Party in Peshawar in a suicide attack just a fortnight before the national elections, including Haroon Bilour, one of the top leaders of ANP, spreads a darkening canopy over Pakistan’s polity. The three embraced martyrdom...
Unraveling Of The Chinese Model Under Way
By Anjan Roy The day of reckoning is here and the economic miracle that China has been for over three decades is all set to unravel. United States has joined battle with China, and it now appears, with no holds barred. Notwithstanding being the second largest economy in...
Mayawati To Join Hands With Ajit Jogi Party
By Rahil Nora Chopra BSP leader Mayawati is in touch with Ajit Jogi and is probably fighting the Chattisgarh assembly election with Jogi’s party. Jogi had left Congress two years ago and formed a regional outfit called Chhattisgarh Janata Congress. Recently he met Mayawati in Delhi and discussed details...
