By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh has yet to recover from the calamity caused by unprecedented rains and floods — it has been hit by a veritable tsunami caused by what is being described as “honey trap”. It is being claimed that “honey trap” involved top VVIPs including...
By Harihar Swarup The coming elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, expected to be held next month (October), are considered politically significant because they will reveal the popular rating of the BJP; how much it fell after Lok Sabha election or went up. The elections to Rajasthan, Madhya...
By Arjavi Indraneesh Analysts are noticing a new kind of dynamism in the oil market, which seems to have set off a mechanism of internal management of the demand-supply situation, anchoring it on the overall state of the global economy. This is a welcome development for countries...
By Arun Srivastava India is passing through the time of newness: whether it is new culture, new economy, new education, new labour or New India everything is being projected as the archetypal of novelty. This novelty is the innovation of the creator of modern BJP, Narendra Modi...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Pala assembly constituency spring an ugly surprise on the Congress-led United Democratic Front? Or, will the CPI(M)-headed Left Democratic Front (LDF)create history by wresting the seat after 54 years? These are the questions uppermost in the minds of Pala voters even...
By Indira Jaising In a history-making decision, the Government of India has prohibited electronic cigarettes by the promulgation of the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Ordinance, 2019 on September 18.The effect of the ordinance is to ban production,...
By R S Yadav Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907. At a very young age he involved himself in the freedom struggle. He was only 23, when he was hanged on March 23, 1931. But even by that time, he had spoken and written so much...
By Chidambaram N The Left parties — CPI, CPI(M) CPI(ML), Forward Bloc and RSP — are holding a joint convention on September 20, 2019 in the national capital to chart out a protest action programme against the deepening slowdown and huge loss of jobs in almost all...
By Gulzar Bhat A few days before BJP government did away with the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and stripped it of statehood, I spoke to 15odd people comprising journalists, academics and intellectuals from both within and outside the state, now Union Territory, about the central...
By Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi Smoking tobacco is the single largest cause of preventable death around the world. With more than 7 million premature deaths due to smoking including second-hand smoke yearly, the menace of smoking is far away from being tamed and is estimated to reach a massive...