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By Aditya Aamir This summer – April-May-June – will sizzle. Not as much as last year or the year before. But average temperatures in most parts of the country will be ‘above normal’, says the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). There is a silver lining, though: temperatures in east,...
Why India Is Strengthening Its Northern Defences
By Barun Das Gupta March 19 was a big day for the Indian Air Force as its heaviest transport aircraft, C-17 Globemaster, landed at Tuting Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh, very close to the Chinese border. India has been upgrading the old and disused landing strips...
Encounters Of The PDP-BJP Alliance
By Jay Bhagwan Army officer Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz’s killing has been avenged for the nth-time. Two of his killers are said to be among the 12 militants killed in south Kashmir on the April Fool’s Day. Three army soldiers and four civilians also died in the exchange...
Growing Big Scale Bank Frauds And ‘Underpriced’ Political Risks
By Nantoo Banerjee It may look unusual that global investment bankers, led by Goldman Sachs and Nomura, are suddenly changing their perception about India as a rewarding investment and growth destination. Last month, Nomura’s research report on India went to the extent of saying that political uncertainty in...
Find The ‘Leaker’ And You Will Find The Motive
By Sushil Kutty All CBSE question papers should henceforth – like film Censor Board certificates, which carry no-smoking and no animals were used in the making of the film claims – carry the legend ‘This Q-paper was not leaked at any step of its making process.’ That requires...
Wages Without Work’ Continues To Haunt LDF Govt
By P. Sreekumaran ‘Nokkukooli’ – the practice of charging for no work and exorbitant charges for loading and unloading works – continues to have Kerala in its stranglehold despite assertions to the contrary by the Pinarayi Vijayan Government. The LDF Government had declared that the infamous practice...
Chauhan Revives Police Commissioner Debate
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: In Madhya Pradesh there is no perceptible decline in crime in general and against women in particular. The government has come under severe attack over the death of a journalist, Sandeep Sharma, in Bhind district. The sand mafia’s hand is suspected in the brutal...
Biggest Bane Of Dalit Politics Are Its Leaders
By K. Raveendran UP Governor Ram Naik can produce a treatise on the ‘R’ in the middle of B R Ambedkar’s name. He has been feeling very agitated over the way Ambedkar’s name was being written in Hindi-spoken states, such as Uttar Pradesh. According to him, the R...
Amit Shah’s Big Faux Pas Has Put BJP In The Dock
By Harihar Swarup The BJP began its campaign in Karnataka on an embarrassing note, which pollsters say, is inauspicious. It was a day of embarrassment for the BJP when usually sharp party President Amit Shah committed a gaffe. Interacting with the media during a tour of Lingayat and...
Socialism Is Now At The Core Of British Labour Party’s Advance
By Carlos Martinez “A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left” by Simon Hannah is inspired by Tony Benn’s comment that “the Labour Party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it” and the book charts the attempts...
Anti-BJP Forces Set To Pose A Strong Challenge To Narendra Modi
By S. Sethuraman Karnataka Assembly poll outcome in May will finally determine whether the Modi-Amit duo should opt for advancing Lok Sabha elections well ahead of April-May 2019. Such a decision becomes crucial for the Modi Government, with a perceptible spread of anti-incumbency mood in the country, and...
Disarmament, Development And Health Are Inseparable
By Dr. Arun Mitra Saddened and disturbed on hearing about the devastation caused by the atom bombs thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mahatma Gandhi had said “I regard the employment of the atom bomb for the wholesale destruction of men, women and children as the most diabolical...
Fifteen Years After Us Invasion Of Iraq
By Stephanie Savell In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction—weapons that have never been found. Nevertheless, all these years later, Bush’s “Global War on Terror” continues—in...
Mamata”s Federal Front Move Makes Headway
By Rahil Nora Chopra Mamata Banerjee has become active with the Lok Sabha election coming closer. After meeting with Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao on the issue of third front she was in Delhi and held meetings with the opposition leaders to unite them against BJP. She...
Modi’s Integrated Education Scheme Offers Nothing New
By Gyan Pathak With the approaching general elections in 2019, the political establishment has become more vociferous in the hope of covering up their failures of performance. High sounding schemes are being launched to avert possible anti-incumbency by mesmerizing the people of India in their favour. The new...
Jai Ramji Ki To All In Cambridge Analytica’s India
By Sushil Kutty Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower Christopher Wylie, who carries a ‘lie’ in his surname for effect, says he’s been getting lots of requests from Indian journalists about Indian political parties’ links with the tainted company. Stating that SCL/CA had several projects in India and offices strewn across...
BJP Is Desperate To Foment Tensions In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava BJP president Amit Shah’s loyalty to his boss Narendra Modi is so passionate that for promoting his political interest he is not only determined to go against the ideological and political ethos of the Sangh and the BJP but he can resolutely contrive to obliterate...
Chouhan Takes An Ambitious Programme For Unorganised Labour
BY L S Herdenia BHOPAL: As the dates for the 2018 Vidhan Sabha elections are coming closer, BJP led Madhya Pradesh Government is promising heaven to the deprived sections of the society. Unorganised labourer is one such section. Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan has announced an...
