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By Rahil Nora Chopra According to sources, senior Shiv Sena leaders, MLAs and MPs are meeting shortly to decide and chalk out the strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections. The meeting is also expected to decide on the fate of the party’s support to the Maharashtra government...
Chinese Aggressiveness Brings India And Vietnam Closer
By Subrata Majumder Close on the visit of Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan for the Republic Day celebrations, the visit of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang to India in March should be viewed from more than the angle of bilateral economic engagement. It has to be seen...
Modi’s 2014 Scarecrows Give A Fright To Amit Shah
Aditya Aamir Farmers do not like the Bharatiya Janata Party. One of the quirks of democracy is that the government of the day is always under attack. More so, during elections, and the opposition are those who do the attacking. Farmers are a big part of the broad...
Implications Of Manjhi Deserting Saffron Company
By Arun Srivastava Former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manjhi has quit the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). With this he has also announced the decision to join the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, the Grand Alliance. The development might not have any adverse numerical impact on the...
Electric Vehicles To Bring Cheap, Pollution Free Urban Transportation
By K R Sudhaman In a decade or two, nearly 50 per cent of 1.3 billion people in India will live in urban areas and transportation is perhaps going to be a major hurdle, particularly in major cities, which are already choked. Lately there is a new dimension...
Vijayan Expands His Domination In Kerala State CPI(M)
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Factionalism in the State CPI(M) has become a thing of the past. And the party would benefit from it. Thus thundered CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan at the recently-concluded party’s state conference. But the question uppermost in the minds of not only CPI(M)...
Lalu In Jail More Politically Relevant Than Lalu Walking Free
By Arun Srivastava With the Jharkhand high court rejecting the bail application of RJD chief Lalu Yadav in the multi-crore fodder scam, analysts have started writing his political epithet and visualise the end of the politics of social justice. They are aware that Lalu is the only leader,...
Mayawati Is Bucking Trends In Dalit Politics
By Amulya Ganguli Mayawati’s alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka for the forthcoming assembly election is possibly her last throw of the dice in an effort to retain her political relevance. Realizing that she is becoming a back number in view of the rise of...
‘Apna Desh’ Becomes A Lawless Land
By Sushil Kutty Manoj Baitha, the BJP leader who killed nine children with his SUV, is a scumbag and that is his “good quality”. He doesn’t have the qualities of real good people. Like not getting drunk and driving. This lowlife had liquor in his blood and breath....
Supreme Court Lands In Another Major Crisis
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Supreme Court again seems to be involved in another crisis, with questions of judicial impropriety and challenging conventions raised. The issue pertained to a decision of bench of three judges declaring a 2014 judgment of another three judges on land acquisition as per incurium,...
Taking Indo-Nepal Relationship Forward
By Barun Das Gupta In the recent parliamentary elections in Nepal, the two communist parties secured a majority, relegating the Nepali Congress, an ally of the Indian National Congress and India as such, to the third place. As soon as the elections ended and the communist victory was...
Poll Battle To Win Over Northeastern States Of India
By Kalyani Shankar The most neglected northeastern region has come into focus in the political calculations of the BJP, the Congress and the regional parties in view of the ongoing Assembly elections to Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura. For decades, successive governments at the Centre, often in collusion with...
UAE Follows Procedures, Not Quite The Indian Way
By Sushil Kutty The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set procedures to deal with the death of a “visitor” to the country in a public place (hotel/beach/park/highway etc) and those procedures automatically come into play once an unnatural/untimely death occurs. The delay in the release of actor Sridevi’s...
Megaphone From Across The Border
By Aditya Aamir There was a warning before the shelling started, a megaphone blaring from across the border, asking the people of Silikote, the last village on the LoC in Uri, to “not waste time” and get the hell out, and away. Within the hour, when the shelling...
Yogi’s Lawless Bounty Killers
By Sushil Kutty If in Uttar Pradesh, take care. There are people there with the Yogi-given licence to kill. Desi James Bonds. Bounty Hunters. Most of them on the loose in UP’s Wild West – Shamli, Muzaffarpur, Saharanpur, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Baghpat, Kairana, Greater Noida, Noida – Right next...
China’s Big Business On Silent Investment Aggression Into India
By Nantoo Banerjee Strategically, China may appear to be India’s No. 1 adversary, but Chinese investors look at India through totally different glasses. They see fast-growing democratic India, having strong legal framework and independent judiciary, a very safe and attractive place to invest their millions for easy...
It May Be Time To Go For Non-Human Judges
By K Raveendran When two judges or benches of judges considering the same case issue different verdicts applying the same law, then there is something wrong with the law in question. And if there is nothing wrong with the law and the circumstances of the case remain...
Crocodile Tears On Breakdown Of Banking Controls
By Arun Srivastava Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian was correct in his observation that internal controls and external regulatory systems in public sector banks have broken down. But what is really disturbing and at the same time scandalous is his assiduous silence on identifying the nature of...
