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By Ashis Biswas It is not just a question of boycotting a proposed Joint Parliamentary Committee probe against Nirav Modi looting a PSU bank of Rs 11,000 crore: in Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has also blocked a State Assembly discussion on a controversial public religious conversion...
Centre-State Logjam In Delhi Becomes Uglier
By Harihar Swarup Delhi’s unique position as the union capital, under the Constitution, has led to constant tension between the Centre and the state government. If the governments at the two centres of power are of the same party, there is less bickering. In the event, however, of...
Policy Experiments May Sabotage Food Self-Sufficiency
By Gyan Pathak The government is keen to make agriculture policies and programs ‘income centric’ instead of ‘production-oriented’. It has been revealed by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh while addressing the National Conference on “Agriculture 2022 – Doubling Farmers’ Income”. Such policy...
Need For Policy Change To Make Drugs Affordable
By Dr. Arun Mitra The issue of exorbitant profit on drugs has been highlighted in the past few months. Several civil society organisations including the All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) and Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) have been taking up this issue for long and...
Polite But Firm Yechury Message To Kerala CPI(M)
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A polite but firm message to the Kerala unit of the CPI(M) from general secretary Sitaram Yechury; a public rebuff of Kannur CPI(M) secretary, P. Jayarajan; and an open expression of warmth towards Kerala Congress(M) chief K M Mani by CPI(M) leaders, EP Jayarajan...
Gen Rawat Is Not Modi’s ‘Batboy’, He Is Army Chief
By Sushil Kutty Army chief Gen. Bipin Rawat draws a link between the AIDUF’s expansion in Assam to a ‘planned illegal immigration’ taking place because of a ‘proxy war’ engineered by Pakistan and China and all hell breaks loose. ‘Muslimeen’ politician Asauddin Owaisi promptly attacks the Chief and...
Meghalaya May Give A Fragmented Mandate
By Barun Das Gupta Meghalaya, the only State in the north-east which is headed by a Congress chief minister, is going to polls next Tuesday. In 2013, the Congress won 29 seats in the 60-member House. Together with the United Democratic Party’s (UDP) eight legislators, it formed the...
Trolls In Their Internet Sprawls
By Aditya Amir Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s three minor children can withstand the north Indian winter in rolled-up cotton shirt sleeves because Canadian children start shovelling snow from age two. It has got nothing to do with a meal of goat curry, basmati rice; tomato sauce with...
Kejriwal Making Delhi His Anarchy Laboratory
By Sushil Kutty Monday midnight Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash goes to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence. Kejriwal is not alone. Deputy CM Manish Sisodia is there. So are some AAP MLAs. Among them Amanatullah and Prakash Jarwal. Next day Prakash alleges assault at the CM’s house....
Mamata’s Bid To Reach Out To Hindus
Trinamool Congress has embarked on a new strategy to woo the majority community by their new strategy of reaching out to priests by organising conferences in different districts. TMC leaders have been addressing Hindu priests at these meetings. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee believes she will have an important role...
BJP, Congress Play Caste Politics In Madhya Pradesh By-Elections
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: With the stormy electioneering over, voters of Kolaras and Mungaoli will exercise their franchise on February 24. Both BJP and Congress have campaigned for the by-elections as if in a general election. Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chauhan continuously camped in the constituencies...
Modi’s Balancing Act Between Globalization And Protectionism
By Subrata Majumder Controversy roared when Prime Minister Narendra Modi sneered at protectionism and sided with Chinese President Xi Jinping to advocate globalization in Davos. Nevertheless, China too towed protectionism in the early stage of development. Its strategy helped to push the country as the global hub for...
Gaming Banking System Through Process Shortcomings
By G. Srinivasan At a time when the country’s ailing banking industry, particularly the proverbial public sector banks (PSBs) suffering from balance sheet woes, is being bandaged by the first tranche of a capital infusion of Rs 88.139 crore as part of a jumbo Rs 2.11 lakh crore...
Scams Again For Poll Battle As In 2014
By S. Sethuraman The biggest scandal in India’s banking sector – an alleged 11,400 crore fraud involving Punjab National Bank and diamond merchant Nirav Modi and associates — coming to light in January 2018 — will pep up the state poll campaigns, leading to Lok Sabha elections 2019....
Modi Government Planning To Abolish Nrega
By Arun Srivastava The Narendra Modi government is discreetly moving ahead to abolish the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The idea had dominated the drawing room discussions of important BJP leaders just ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Almost all the leaders were in favour of...
BJP’s Uphill Battle In Left Bastion Tripura
By Amulya Ganguli The enormous effort which the BJP has put in for what many will regard as a lost cause, viz. that of winning the Tripura elections, holds a lesson for other parties. In fact, the prime minister might have mentioned his party’s determined chase of a...
Baby Face Bank Robbers: Nelson And Nirav
By Sushil Kutty Nirav Modi – Baby Face Nirav! He reminds us of the American gangster of the 1930s, Public Enemy No.1 ‘Baby Face Nelson’. Both small guys with big dreams, banks their weakness. George ‘Baby Face’ Nelson robbed banks with loaded guns. ‘Baby Face Nirav’ fraudulently unloaded...
India Ought To Adopt Pragmatic Approach Towards Neighbours
By Arun Srivastava “More than China… India should play a better role in Maldives than any other countries because we are neighbours. And we have been friends”. This is a simple sentence but diplomatically this remark from Ahmed Mohamed, Maldives’ ambassador to India, has wider ramifications. Through his...
