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Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court was in total disarray on Friday after four senior judges of the apex court held a press conference and openly charged CJI Dipak Mishra with selectively assigning sensitive cases to “preferred benches”, implying he had an ulterior motive, and by afternoon the controversy had...
Signs Positive For Investment Growth In 2018
By Anjan Roy The World Bank had predicted higher growth for India next year. But that is not an isolated episode of global enthusiasm about the country. Earlier, credit rating agencies had upgraded India’s investment worthiness. But for now, the World Bank study indicated strong growth potential for...
Mixing Ayush With Modern Medicine Counter Productive
By Dr. Arun Mitra Although the National Medical Commission Bill has been referred to the standing committee, certain things need to be answered. The best alternative, however, would be to revamp the MCI to remedy the shortcomings which had cropped in it. But if the government is too...
Indians Still Clinging To Prejudices
By Aditya Aamir Something we never get to know from research papers downloaded on us is what do the researchers themselves think about the issues they research, their own answers to the questions they pose to the sample surveyed. That is food for thought. Moving on, a newly...
Few In India Will Believe This Pew Survey
By Sushil Kutty With US President Donald Trump in all-out war with media, fake news and fake media are current news. And one piece of news that sounds like “fake news” and is doing the rounds is that news reporting in mainstream Indian media is “fair and objective”....
Trump to disrupt davos conclave with “america first”
By Nitya Chakraborty The United States President Donald Trump will be attending the annual World Economic Forum conclave at Davos scheduled on January 22 to 26 this year. The WEF is known as the Forum of the world business leaders and the political statesmen who are known as...
Govt mulls ordinance as talaq bill faces flak
Dileep Shora There are a lot of ways to come at this story, but one way to say it is that when brought to a halt in any endeavour, then the easiest way to get out of that bind is to come up a drastic remedy – like an...
Democracy Faces Another Test In J&K Civic Polls
By Jay Bhagwan The last time elections took place in Jammu and Kashmir there was violence and the Mehbooba Mufti-led government was forced to cancel the elections in the Anantnag constituency. By then close to 100 civilians were killed and several hundred others lost partial or complete eyesight....
Modi Government Has No Firm Policy On Labour Issues
By B. Sivaraman With the Union Budget presentation approaching, expectations are rising among the salaried—not only about a possible hike in income-tax exemption limit but also on some major path-breaking schemes like unemployment allowance for youth and retrenched workers. However, some TU leaders are sceptical given the policy...
Who are india’s yuva and what do they ‘hunkar’ for?
By Sushil Kutty Jignesh Mevani’s Yuva Hunkar Rally hoped to rally the millions of youth in India against the Narendra Modi government for failing to create jobs and for creating divisions in the body politic of India. But the rally in Delhi, which was to be followed...
Significance Of Red Carpet To ASEAN Leaders On Republic Day
By Subrata Majumder It was the long term vision of former Prime Minister Narashima Rao to forge closer ties with the then Asian tigers, which were to become one of the two wings of global growth. He launched the Look East policy, aiming to synergise India’s growth and...
Pitroda, Dikshit, Patel In Rahul’s Advisory Panel Likely
By Rahil Nora Chopra Names are being tossed up as to who all will figure in Rahul Gandhi’s political advisory committee. The Congress president is expected to form his political advisory panel of senior leaders after the Congress Working Committee election. The names under consideration are Sam Pitroda,...
West Bengal: Opportunism Unlimited
By Ashis Biswas Political standards seem to have fallen to an all time low in West Bengal: the manipulative tactics adopted by the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in announcing candidates for the Noapara Assembly seat by-election expose the rank political opportunism that prevails...
Akhilesh Preparing To Go It Alone In 2019 Lok Sabha Poll
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has started preparations for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. During his first interaction with media in the New Year, Akhilesh announced that he would make SP a national party. Although Akhilesh is national president of the party, it...
Trump Does To Pak What Modi Did: Put On Notice
By Aditya Aamir It is no longer business as usual between United States and Pakistan as it has not been between India and Pakistan. With US President Donald Trump’s tweet and subsequent US actions, US-Pak ties went into a “tailspin”, as had Indo-Pak relationship after the Narendra Modi...
Fifty Years After Youth Revolt In 1968
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—1968…the year all hell broke loose worldwide, or so it seemed then. Students hit the streets from Tokyo to Cairo to Chicago. Opposition to the U.S. war in Indochina was the main theme, but there were secondary and local causes, too—from protesting a sick...
Supreme Court To Review Offence Of Adultery Under Section 497, IPC
The Supreme Court has referred the petition challenging the validity of Section 497, Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’), which penalises a man for having sexual intercourse with a married woman, without the consent of the husband, with imprisonment up to five years and fine, to Constitution Bench of 5...
Doubling Farmers’ Income By 2022 An Impossible Target
By Gyan Pathak In the first year of the plan to double farmers’ income by 2022, the growth rate in ‘agriculture, forestry, and fishing’ is estimated to sharply fall to less than half. The first advanced estimate of the national income for the year 2017-18 puts the likely...
