By Al Neal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered the European Union a proposed “best and final offer” Brexit deal Wednesday, saying it encapsulates a real compromise for both sides and urged EU leaders to hold “rapid negotiations towards a solution” after years of squabbling. The U.K....
New Delhi: India can address its concerns over China’s growing hypersonic missile arsenal by seeking cooperation with Russia in developing similar missiles through the bilateral BrahMos cruise missile programme, a security analyst has said. As India and Russia’s most productive and beneficial joint venture defence programme, the Brahmos...
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 3rd October, 2019, the newly elevated Justice Ravindra Bhat became the fifth judge in the Supreme Court to recuse himself from hearing the appeal by Gautam Navlakha, a human rights activist, who has been implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case. Before Justice Bhat,...
Major decisions – SC Constitution Bench adjourns hearing on Article 370 for Centre’s reply – On 1 October 2019, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench adjourned hearing of the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the repeal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and its reorganisation till 14 November...
By Subrata Majumder Majority of industry associations, entrepreneurs and trade analysts rang alarm bell for India in joining RCEP – a new and the largest trade block consisting of ASEAN -10 and 6 countries. Before, India had several FTAs. But, none of them yielded any trade benefit. Instead,...
By Anjan Roy While until now, the Reserve Bank has maintained a more nuanced view of the current slow-down and tended to attribute it to cyclical factors, the fine print of RBI’s policy statement on Friday betray its concerns about the future. The Reserve Bank’s monetary...
By Ashok B Sharma India, after winning a series of diplomatic battles against Pakistan, now needs to gradually lift the lockdown imposed on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. So far the diplomatic success scored by India has been to foil Pakistan’s attempt to internationalise the...
By Arun Srivastava With the floods situation continuously getting grim, the future of Nitish Kumar as the chief minister of Bihar is at the stake. Even his close aides and friends interpret the intensity of floods as a warning sign for Nitish Kumar The Congress lost...
By Art Perlo The U.S. response to the Mideast crisis is not about protecting the world’s oil supply. It is to tighten control of the world’s oil supply, to protect profits for the U.S. oil monopolies, and to further control by U.S. global financial, military, and other corporations....
By K Raveendran A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has allowed the Modi government’s review petition against the dilution of powers of arrest under the controversial SC-ST Act, which had caused disquiet across a wide spectrum, including the affected class. This had even led to a certain...