The Association for Democratic Reforms has observed a disproportionate increase in the assets of 42 MPs and MLAs between two elections, as per their declarations before the Election Commission of India. The watchdog body tried to reconcile these records with the income tax returns of the elected representatives, but was … Read More
The sudden, inexplicable return of former president Pervez Musharraf on March 24 to contest elections in Pakistan next month, particularly the manner in which his nomination papers were cleared only for Chitral Parliamentary Constituency which is officially part of India, raises suspicions that this may be part of a conspiracy … Read More
The irrepressible Subramanian Swamy tweeted at Rahul Gandhi’s first major attempt at public speaking: “First he confused a piling of cow dung as a mountain of corpses. Now he says Rani ki Jhansi. As Prof. I say: write 1000 times Jhansi ki Rani!” That bloomer, coupled with a string of … Read More
Senior BJP leader and former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha has, for the second time in recent days, departed from the party line of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations and gone to the extent of supporting the vivisection of Sri Lanka and creation of a separate Tamil Eelam. … Read More
The recent exposé that Pakistan made a secret deal in 2004 to allow the CIA to conduct drone attacks on civilian targets provided Washington spared its nuclear facilities and mountain camps where Kashmiri militants were being trained for attacks in India, makes it imperative that New Delhi urgently revisit the … Read More
By creating a four-member Lokayukta, Narendra Modi has defeated the machinations of the Congress-dominated UPA to use the office of Governor and Chief Justice of the High Court to appoint a Lokayukta known for ideological bias against the Chief Minister. The Congress, in fact, has suffered a long-term defeat because … Read More
The shrillness with which political parties in Tamil Nadu have espoused the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils, with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa setting a dangerous precedent by seeking UN intervention for a referendum to partition the island nation, contrasts sharply with their deafening silence on the plight of the Tamil … Read More
The arrest of Pakistani national and Hizbul Mujahideen operative Liaquat Ali Shah on March 20, 2013, after he crossed over from Nepal along with his family, raises serious questions about the Jammu and Kashmir Government’s Surrender & Rehabilitation Policy for militants, and the Union Home Ministry’s complicity in giving free … Read More
When on March 14, 2013, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose the archbishop of Buenos Aires as new Pope the election was no surprise to the cognoscenti. Soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the German press leaked the details of his election in 2005, which showed Bergoglio was in … Read More
