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Aditya Aamir The retort to the triple-T Bill from the likes of AIMIM MP Assauddin Owaisi is, “But what will happen to the wife and children if the husband is put behind bars?” Of course, that assumes the triple-T the husband threw at his wife was just for fun,...
Kamala Mills fire: 1Above had no Mojo Thursday night
Sushil Kutty The 1Above – God Almighty – was not with them that midnight hour when 1Above and Mojo Bistro in Kamala Mills Compound burned, killing 14 and injuring 26. ‘Illegal’ was the word doing the rounds the day after. “Something burnt,” sniffed reporters picking up the story from...
Where have all the vigilante gone?
Adiya Aamir ‘Gai Hamaari Mata Hai’ does not mean the cow is everybody’s mom. It is a political slogan to muster votes and to cover up for the horrible manner in which Indians treat the cow. Cows roam roads and streets in India, looking for morsels to satiate hunger...
One-liner vp ‘begs to differ’
By Jay Bhagwan Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has not only livened up the Upper House with his one-liners, he has also refused to toe the imperialist mindset that wouldn’t let go even the venerable elders in India’s Parliament. On Friday he reiterated his opening...
Sow The Wind, Reap The Whirlwind
By Aditya Aamir What’s all the brouhaha about? Prime Minister Narendra Modi backstabbed “best friends” US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 21 at the United Nations and Palestine envoy to Pakistan Walid Abu Ali joined with global terrorist Hafiz Saeed to backstab...
‘Triple Talaq’ Bill Is More Harmful Than Protective
By Gyan Pathak The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 is potentially more harmful than it aims to protect. Obviously, the issues that might arise in the aftermath of its becoming an act are not well thought. The word talaq is defined in this...
An obscurantist minister responsible for ‘innovative thinking’
By K. Raveendran Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde created a storm with his obscurantist call to fellow countrymen to identify themselves by their religion and caste and not to fancy themselves as ‘secular’ because such people have no respectable parentage to claim. He even...
Looking Back At The Eventful 2017
By Harihar Swarup The year 2017 was an eventful year, perhaps more eventful than previous years. The year gone by saw a surge for the BJP: the saffron party, for the first time, has its president in Rashtrapathi (APJ Abdul Kalam was a consensus candidate and not a...
Stop acting and layoff after the takeoff
Sushil Kutty One international film award winner wonder, Malayalam actor Parvathy, has landed three misogynists in a soup one of whom only acts misogynist because he is a director’s actor and the director told him to “give it the best shot you can.” So, Malayalam superstar Padma Shree Mammootty...
Dubai Indian lady orders $40,000 ‘golden’ cake to celebrate Independence Day
Dubai: At the request of an Indian lady client in Dubai, whose name has not been disclosed, city-based Broadway Bakery has created the world’s most expensive edible cake as part of the celebrations of Indian Independence Day. It features Bollywood celebrity Aamir Khan (as Mahavir Singh Phogat) glamorously looking on...
Modi Has Many Hurdles To Cross
By Amulya Ganguli Only the naïve will believe that Narendra Modi has scored a famous victory by pushing his bugbear, Sanjay Joshi, into political wilderness. Instead, by his uninhibited display of a vengeful spirit, he may have queered the pitch for himself for, as Sushil Modi, Bihar’s deputy chief...
UPA Has To Fight A Hard Battle To Arrest Economic Drift
By S. Sethuraman Just as UPA-II wakes up to economic realities and gropes for some solid actions to restore a sense of confidence, both of investors and the public at large, the Congress-led Government remains challenged by growing political tensions and worsening domestic and global growth outlook. The immediate...
A Fresh Stimulus To Economy Needed
By Anjan Roy When the government becomes weak, everybody starts talking. Now regulatory body chiefs and Reserve Bank deputy governors are all in the fray to make pubic pronouncement of what should be done. While SEBI chairman, U.K. Sinha, has advised government to fast track reforms programmes, if necessary...
Akali Dal Gives Covert Support To SGPC Priests
By B.K. Chum in Chandigarh “Haryana is where Action is”. The slogan was coined by Bansi Lal’s brain trusts in the early seventies to project Haryana’s big strides in development after his taking over as Chief Minister in 1968. The slogan is now applicable to Punjab though in a...
Govt To Relax SEZ Land Norms Soon
NEW DELHI: The ministry of commerce and industry would soon announce relaxed land-related norms for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to arrest the slackening pace of growth in these tax-free zones by making certain changes in the SEZ policy. In a major amendment to the policy, enacted in 2006, for...
Competition Watchdog May Look At All Sectors
NEW DELHI: A corporate affairs ministry note prepared for a group of ministers has sought to bring all sectors of the economy under the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) purview Objections to that by the Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) have been contested....
With Growth On His Mind, PM May Push For RBI Rate Cut
NEW DELHI: With growth being his top priority amid grim economic data, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may unequivocally support the finance ministry’s stance favouring another rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at the June 18 policy review. This comes in the wake of senior RBI officials...
Big Debt Killed, Biyani Won’t Shed Core Business
NEW DELHI: Retail magnate Kishore Biyani says he is not in talks with anybody to sell stake in Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar chains because his Future Group has sorted out its debt crisis after three back-to-back deals in the past one month. “We are not in discussions with...
