By Amulya Ganguli An unprecedented event in January, 2018, saw four Supreme Court judges hold a Press conference – the first and last, in their view – to announce that democracy in India is in peril because “things are not in order” in the judiciary. Four years later, Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, has also voiced […]
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By Sushil Kutty Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh on Kargil Divas reiterated that Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) will be returned to India, and that POK remains an integral part of India. We’ve heard this before, umpteen number of times, more and more after the Bharatiya Janata Party came to rule at the Centre. Prime Minister Narendra […]
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By Shreenivas Khandewale It is true that the whole world was engulfed by the adverse economic consequences of corona during 2020-21 and 2021-22 and that even during 2022-23, there are lingering effects of the pandemic. Most of the countries are suffering, as India does, from the economic dislocations in various sectors at various production points, […]
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By K Raveendran Congress hasn’t done any credit to itself by criticising prime minister Narendra Modi‘s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ call to hoist the national flag atop homes to mark the 75th year of India’s independence under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav campaign. It was somewhat uncharacteristic of him at this instance to mention that the […]
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By Sushil Kutty The rupee struck 80 and trespassed into the BJP’s ‘Margdarshak Mandal’ territory, and the opposition parties took note of it. But none from the BJP cared to respond, even when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe, tweeting “Amritkaal at 80”, and newly-minted Congress Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala tweeted “Marg Darshak […]
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By Sushil Kutty India has a new President, and so does Sri Lanka. But look at the difference. India’s president-elect will ease into her new job while Sri Lanka’s new President Ranil Wickremesinghe has done it with a mixture of unease and determination writ large on his face. What ails his mind would make for […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Droupadi Murmu on winning the presidential election. “India scripts history,” PM Modi tweeted after the National Democratic Alliance candidate – now the first tribal President of India – defeated the joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. “At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Mediation is an alternate dispute resolution (ADR) system outside the traditional court system. In India, this service is presently provided by private ADR or mediation centres, and also through the court annexed mediation centres set up by courts and tribunals. Mediation is a voluntary process that Modi government wanted to change […]
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By Anjan Roy For people life begins at forty. For the Indian rupee, life is beginning to be exciting at 80. The Indian rupee crossed the psychological barrier of 80 to a US dollar on Tuesday in trading on foreign exchange markets. On Wednesday, it recovered a wee bit. Now, it is becoming exciting to […]
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By K Raveendran Amidst global supply chain disruptions and the attendant cost escalations, there is some encouraging news for India’s merchandise trade. Oversupply of containers is forcing a correction in the second-hand container market prices in the wake of average container prices and leasing rates declining globally since October 2021. The current situation of oversupply […]
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By Sushil Kutty The two Sena were back in the Supreme Court on Wednesday locking horns demanding the disqualification of the legislators of the “other Sena”. For the benefit of the public, the Uddhav Sena and Shinde Sena are engaged in a fratricidal war, both groups bent on eliminating the other from the face of […]
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By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi said recently that India is the fastest growing economy at the moment. Statistics wise it may be true as other countries are doing badly. But the question to be asked is India’s growth story a myth or reality? On the face of it Indian economy may look […]
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By Kalyani Shankar Is the overpopulation a boon or a bane for India, and will we be able to convert its human resources to productive use? Experts say it could be a boon, but only if the people are involved in regulating it. The topic has come in focus as India will be the world’s […]
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By Nantoo Banerjee The best way to stabilise the Indian Rupee is to contain inflation and imports. Simply put: the inflation rate should be below four percent and the country’s massive annual trade deficits need to be reduced to zero. The country should totally focus on making goods in India to reduce avoidable imports and […]
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By L S Herdenia There are several highlights of the results of local body election announced on July 17. The first and most important highlight is the gain made by the Congress which captured Mayors post in three municipal corporations. The second is the humiliating defeat suffered by Jyotiraditya Scindia in Gwalior where he and […]
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By Subrata Maumder Pan India outrage is reaching its peak with the soaring inflation and government inability to control it. Angers were hurled against the government failure to rein in the oil products price hike and its impact on inflation. Inflation (measured by Consumer Price Index) increased by 6.34 percent in 2021-22 as compared to […]
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By Sushil Kutty Those who wrote the PFI document, currently in circulation, to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047 know their English. The grammar is clean and it took the author just eight pages to conquer India lock, stock and barrel. The long and short of it is, Indian Muslims want to rule […]
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By Anjan Roy The battlegrounds in eastern Ukraine are proving to be prey wars between two weapons systems — old Soviet type weapons and those advanced latest weapons developed in the west. The battle worthiness and the effective of the competing firepower would indicate a lot for the future of conventional warfare. These lessons from […]
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By Krishna Jha India’s unemployment rate has risen to 7.80 percent in June. Haryana and Rajasthan are at the top. The other worrisome data point about the rate of unemployment, seen in June, 2022,was a fall of 2.5 million jobs among salaried employees. Unemployment has risen mainly in the agrarian sector, according to data released […]
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By K Raveendran The rupee hitting new lows has become a monotonous regularity. The currency has fallen in the relentless climb by dollar, subjugated any resistance offered by other currencies, including the euro, which has fallen to its 20-year low, fast approaching the highly embarrassing parity in the wake of a crippling energy crisis brought […]
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By Sankar Ray The four-day visit of the eight-member team of the Communist Party of China in Kathmandu, led by Liu Jianchao, the new head of CPC’s international liaison department, as well as a meeting with the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center),Pushpa Kamal Dahal, at the latter’s residence in Khumaltar both […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak World Population Prospects 2022 has revealed that India ran faster in population race to become largest populated country in the world in 2023, four years ahead than estimated in 2019, bringing unprecedented challenges which needs to be converted into demographic advantage with planning and action at war footing, or else will […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Most of the experts feel that pushing Gig and Platform Economy, in place of formal sector, would further deteriorate working conditions and throw the workforce into exploitative conditions, and therefore, NITI Aayog had to furnish a difficult task to portray worker perspective seemingly so rosy that could soften stiff resistance of […]
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Ahead of Eid al-Adha, the Assam government has asked the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police to ensure compliance with the Animal Welfare Board of India’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) regarding stopping of illegal killing or sacrifice of cows, calves, camels, and other animals and taking action against the offenders for violation of transport of […]
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