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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...
Karnataka Outcome Crucial For Both BJP And Congress
By Arun Srivastava Just a couple of days ahead of the Karnataka assembly polls the BJP and RSS leadership is keeping fingers crossed. Though publicly the leaders are exuding confidence of a clean sweep, getting around 110 seats, in private they seem to lack conviction. They agree...
Divisive Politics In Assam Creates New Rifts
By Barun Das Gupta BJP’s divisive politics in Assam is ripping open old wounds and creating new fissures – between Hindus and Muslims, between Assamese and Bengalis, between the Brahmaputra and the Barak Valleys. It all started during the Lok Sabha election campaign of 2014. The BJP’s...
Modi Officials Inflating Job Generation Figures
By Nitya Chakraborty The demonetization done by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016, is still having its crippling impact on the informal sector of the Indian economy while the officials and economists close to the PM, are busy inflating the job generation figures in the...
Marxism Has To Be Scientifically Applied In India
By S. Sudhakar Reddy Karl Marx was an eminent philosopher, renowned economist, historian, journalist, political ideologue, revolutionary socialist, great intellectual and multilingual expert. His birthday bicentenary is being celebrated in a spectacular way all over the world from May 5, 2018 onwards throughout the year. Karl Marx obtained...
Mehbooba mufti is a darling, but whose?
By Sushil Kutty Year-round eat, drink and then for a month lay down fork and spoon. That is the month of Ramadan or Ramzan. Of course, ‘prayer’ and ‘fasting’ and the peace that comes with both are also Ramadan. But Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti wants...
BJP Worried About Negative Publicity Over Gram Swaraj Yojna
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Whatever Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may claim during the election campaign in Karnataka, the Gram Swaraj Yojna for Dalit outreach in Uttar Pradesh has created a major embarrassment for BJP and the government. The programme was launched on Ambedkar Jayanti April 14 and...
