Opinion
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Kathua rape trial transferred to Pathankot, Punjab – After weeks of intense arguments, the Supreme Court finally transferred the trial in the Kathua rape case to the Sessions Court, Pathankot in Punjab, which was the closest court outside the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Court also directed that...
Mutual Consent Paramount In Adult Relationships
By Amritananda Chakravorty Two recent decisions from the Supreme Court of India have emphasised consent at the centre of adult intimate relationships, irrespective of the marital status of the parties. In both cases, the Court focused on the personal freedom and autonomy of adult persons to live as...
Marxism Is A Living Science 200 Years Later
By Rick Nagin The ideas of Marxism originated in the middle of the 19th century. It was then that two great social scientists, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, first realized that capitalism was a continuation of previous class systems where wealth was accumulated in private hands from the...
Karnataka: The Flip-Flops And Ping-Pong
By Sushil Kutty Everybody’s read the pebbles & thirsty crow story. However, this is the age of Social Media. So there’s a twist in the tale: The thirsty crow makes 69 trips to the river to get the pebbles to raise the water in the bottle to beak-level,...
Overseas Bidders For Air India Trying To Twist Sale Terms
By Nantoo Banerjee In just another three to four months’ time, the fate of India’s long preserved pride, Air India, the national carrier and ‘Maharaja’ of the sky, may be finally decided. Who’ll be the ultimate owner of the airline? It’s a multi-million-dollar question before Air Indians. The...
Twin Gubernatorial Rebuffs In Two Days
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two gubernatorial snubs in two consecutive days. That has been the unenviable lot of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government ruling the State. First of the twin rebukes came after political violence erupted in Kannur and Mahe, claiming the lives of...
Trinamool Prefers Short Term ‘Gains’ That May Hurt Later
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In recent times, no ruling party in Bengal ever faced the Panchayat elections as confidently as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 2018, with only hours to go for the polls. Most of its objectives have been achieved: its two- tier terror campaign (state-sponsored,...
PPP, PTI Adopt Tactical Truce To Remember Black Day
By Sankar Ray The proverb all’s well that ends well prevailed at Karachi’s Hakeem Saeed ground in Gulshan-e-Iqbal when at long last workers of the two parties, Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan People’s Party, buried the hatchet on the eve of organising a jalsa on the 11th anniversary of Black...
Which world are our judges living in?
By K Raveendran The dome of the Supreme Court building evokes a certain symbolism that conjures up a larger meaning to all Indians, lending the hallowed precincts of the last resort of justice an overbearing air of solemnity and authority. But whatever has happened under the dome in the...
Some Things Are Unstoppable
By Sushil Kutty As usual, if nothing else, drag the cow in. This time the cow’s hubby – Pashupati. Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes to Nepal on the eve of the Karnataka Assembly election’s voting day and visits the Pashupati Nath Temple in Sita’s Janakpur and the...
PM Not Confident Of Victory In Karnataka
By Harihar Swarup The dirtiest-ever poll campaigning in Karnataka has come to a grinding halt. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP President Amit Shah came to personal levels, calling Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi names. Corruption charges, substantiated or unsubstantiated, were hurled at the Congress...
World Health Organisation Is A Missing Goalpost
By Nilanjan Banik and Philip Stevens Come 21-26 May 2018, representatives from all over the world will gather at Geneva for the annual World Health Assembly meet. As one of the prominent members of the World Health Organization (WHO), India shares a pivotal role in setting the global...
The Whole Thing About The ‘Majority’
By Sushil Kutty Every word they speak is a lie, including the ‘and’ and ‘the’ in the sentence. That is the politician for you. Not to be trusted, or believed. But when the army chief says ‘azaadi’ is beyond the pale of the Kashmiri youth, that’s the end...
Oil Conundrum: India Insulated From Price Hike Impact
By Subrata Majumder India is an oil guzzling nation. It is the third biggest oil consuming country in the world. India is also an oil import dependent country. Over 85 percent of crude oil requirement is met by imports. Resultantly, any hike in global crude oil prices should...
Make National Health Programme A Public Agenda
By Dr Arun Mitra Since childhood we have been hearing ‘Health is wealth’. No wonder only a healthy person can work and contribute for her/his personal, family and society’s development. It is, therefore, important that our population has sound mind and fit body. For this we need clean...
India’s ‘Fastest Growing Economy’ Tag Is Deceptive
By Gyan Pathak Thanks to its strong economic fundamentals, India has finally earned the ‘the fastest growing economy’ of the world tag in spite of its being home to the largest number of illiterates and poor of the world, and the recent economic policy experiments and misadventures. It...
RJD Joining SP-BSP Alliance Big Threat To BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The success of Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav’s efforts to consolidate Opposition unity by roping in Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ch. Ajit Singh to the SP-BSP combination has further added to the BJP fears of having to face a combined opposition in the...
Congress Reworking Caste Arithmetic In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the overhaul of Uttar Pradesh Congress in the works, PCC chief Raj Babbar has all but given up office and is said to be already busy with his other works. He is not at all keen to continue in the post. UP being a...
