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LEARNED JUDGES MIXED UP REVIEW WITH WRIT PETITIONS The Indian Supreme Court’s handling of the review petitions pertaining to the original Sabarimala judgment delivered in September 2018 is emblematic of the court’s scant regard for the…

NEW DELHI SHOULD TRY TO WIN COLOMBO’S TRUST WITHOUT MUCH ADO Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is coming to India on a four-day visit on February 7. Reports from Colombo suggest that that during his talks with Prime Minister…

LEFT ICON CRITICISES MODI GOVERNMENT’S TREATMENT OF KASHMIR FIn parts of the Arab world and India, interestingly, poetry is witnessing “a huge revival. At the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, students took to platform and sang Faiz…

CONDITION IN PRISONS CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE, DESPITE COURT ORDERS The Supreme Court has issued notice to the central government seeking a reply from it on how the government is going to tackle the overcrowding in jails and filling up of…

A METHOD IN MISUNDERSTANDING THE GREAT POET Faiz Ahmad Faiz came alive when his famous poem Hum Dekhenge was recently termed as anti-Hindu. There were explanatory write-ups and discourses about why and how it is not. In the process, what…

DISINVESTMENT IN LIC IS A RETROGRADE STEP The second budget presented by Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman and the seventh budget of the NDA-BJP government is another disappointment but not all surprising. When our economy is admittedly facing a…

AAP CM FACES NEW CHALLENGES IN HIS THIRD TERM Whoever thought seven years ago that the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would come this far to bag the throne of Delhi for the third term? Though AAP had arrived as a disruptive force in…

CLAUSE 6 OF 1985 ACCORD DIVIDES THE STATE With both central and state governments committed to implement Clause 6 of the 1985 Assam accord, intended to ensure the preponderance of Assamiya identity, culture and language, there are fears…

ONLY THE U.S. DEFENCE INDUSTRY IS GAINING After 19 years of the USA’s determined aim to punish the Afghan terrorists to avenge the ignominious and helpless surrender to the 9/11 invasion, the ground truth that the Washington has learnt…

INDIA’S EXPANDING NUCLEAR ARSENAL NEEDS REGULATORY OVERSIGHT Since returning to power last year with an overwhelming majority in the 2019 general elections, the Modi-led government has passed a series of legislations in rapid succession…

BLATANT VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAWS BY US PRESIDENT TRUMP From a legal angle, the killing of General Qasem Soleimani was murder, plain and simple, that must receive international opprobrium. The USA has been killing terrorists all…

GHOSH’S RENOMINATION AS PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS RSS HARDLINERS By re-nominating Dilip Ghosh as the party’s State chief for the next three years, the BJP has given a clear message to its voters and supporters in West Bengal. The party will…

RHETORIC TO SHIFT FROM ‘BANGLADESHI ALIENS’ TO PRESERVING CULTURE Has regionalism run its limit in Assam? Four explosions on Republic day 2020 after a prolonged spell of relative peace and stability certainly breathed new life into the…

THREAT FROM BHEEM SENA CHIEF LEADS TO REORIENTATION OF STRATEGY Threatened by the rise of Chandra Shekhar Ravan of Bheem Sena and sharp erosion in her support base, BSP national president and former Chief Minister Mayawati has played…

IMF RUES LOST MOMENTUM, PROJECTS RECOVERY TO 6.5% BY 2021-22 India, with a revised down growth projection at 4.8 per cent in current fiscal (2019/20), finds itself on a rough road to regain the lost momentum for 7 per cent, given the…

PEOPLE ON THE STREETS ARE FIGHTING FOR CONSTITUTION It is often said that lawyers’ language and doctors’ handwriting are hard to understand. The legalese of lawyers accompanied with legal jargon often sounds alien and too technical for…

YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO FAVOUR SANDERS FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION The Trump-ordered killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s second in command, has made its way into the 2020 presidential campaign, with Bernie Sanders, on national television,…

CM MAMATA BANERJEE IGNORES TMC’S ANTI-SOCIAL LINKS For the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in Bengal, its poor governance could prove a heavier political encumbrance going into the Assembly elections of 2021, even more than any…

SANDERS, WARREN ACCUSE PRESIDENT OF IGNORING CONGRESS Many congressional Democrats—along with party presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren—are warning that President Donald Trump’s targeted drone…

IMPEACHMENT IS NOT JUST ABOUT TRUMP This is truly an extraordinary moment. Now, for only the fourth time in U.S. history, a president faces impeachment. Impeachment is a huge people’s victory. And let’s be clear—it is a victory born of…

STRUGGLES FOR SELF-DETERMINATION ARE CONTINUING This week, starting Dec. 22, Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukkah, the eight-day festival that commemorates the Jews’ successful struggle for self-determination from ancient Greek…

MACRON FACES HIS BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN 2019 Time magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year last week, but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to…

CHANGING MEDIA SCENE GOT FOCUS THROUGH LEADING JOURNALIST One of the most progressive films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was a National Film Board of Canada documentary, This Is Not a Movie, celebrating the work of…

JMM’S HEMANT SOREN WINS ON PRO-FOREST RIGHTS TRIBAL TRUST The impressive win by the Mahagathbandhan in Jharkhand indeed sends a powerful political message, though it is a small state. This is the second state that the BJP has lost in the…

MAMATA HAS A TOUGH TASK TO RETAIN HER HOLD AMONG HINDUS West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, has hit the streets again in her usual style of aggressive politics — which she often practiced during…