By Barun das Gupta Chinese president Xi Jinping came to India and had an “informal summit” (the second one after the Wuhan summit last year) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi down south in Mamallapuram (old Mahabalipuram) last Friday. Since it was an “informal” meeting, there was no agenda,...
By Arun Srivastava LONDON: The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been desperate to salvage the situation and have his final say on the Brexit, but the prevailing political situation makes it explicitly clear that he ultimately may not succeed in his design as support for a new...
By Amulya Ganguli Pakistan and sedition are the two brahmastras (ultimate weapons) in the BJP’s political armoury. The party almost always uses these two missiles in its battles with the opposition and, not surprisingly, comes out on top. Both are foolproof. Once fired, they not only do...
By Harihar Swarup Poll campaigning is at its peak in two important states—Haryana and Maharashtra. After return of Narendra Modi government in 2019 elections, this is the first test of whether the Prime Minister’s popularity remains intact, or whether the Congress and regional parties have mustered the capability...
By K. Raveendran At a time when the privatization of the central public sector enterprises, is sweeping the Modi Government, a number of PSEs are striving hard to retain their PSE character. Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals ltd (BCPL) is one which has performed a miracle by its turnaround in...
By Bill Meyer TORONTO: She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she’s the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi, known for her award-winning animated history doc, Persepolis. The famed Polish-French physicist Marie Curie’s story...
By Prannv Dhawan and Anmol Jain The downgrading of the credentials of India’s constitutional democracy has been a subject of severe domestic and global critique in recent times. Nevertheless, the Indian diplomatic positions in the global fora continue to emphasise upon its track record as a vital...
By Arjavi Indraneesh The Modi government’s plan to make India an international hub of arbitration may be well-meaning and sincere, but it is too ambitious to be realistic. For, arbitration as a means of dispute resolution has not progressed beyond the rudimentary stage in the country. And it...
BY Satyaki Chakraborty Healthcare is a fundamental right of every citizen. Under no circumstances it should become victim particularly under politically made situation. There have been several reports about health care problems in the Kashmir valley after imposition of curbs on 5th August 2019. Dr Arun Mitra,...
By Krishna Jha A sense of gloom is swallowing up all the glow there is in the Indian economy. The noticeable among them is fall in the consumption pattern. Among the factors leading to such dire miseries is absence of jobs. That, in its turn, has led to...