A war of words has broken out in the media after a co-convener of the Maharashtra BJP communication cell tweeted an endorsement of Narendra Modi’s incorruptibility by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The Congress challenged the claim and on Monday the whistleblower website called the endorsement a fake. Wikileaks has since … Read More
It is now certain that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal will follow Narendra Modi for a dip in the Varanasi electoral contest, to lend a frisson of excitement to what is generally regarded as a one-horse race. Claiming in Bengaluru on Sunday that the formal announcement would only … Read More
Clear unambiguous laws and rules are the key to justice and often suffice in themselves to serve the ordinary citizens, Narendra Modi told a jam-packed gathering of lawyers at Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium on Friday, organised by Senior Advocate Ram Jethmalani under the banner of “Lawyers for Modi”. Regretting that Governments … Read More
Simultaneously attacking the Chief Minister Navin Patnaik and the Congress-dominated UPA for failing to improve the lives of the people despite two successive mandates, Narendra Modi lashed out at Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid for denigrating the Supreme Court and the Election Commission on the eve of elections while in London, … Read More
Nandan Nilekani, who got the Congress ticket for the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency even before officially joining the party on March 9, continues to hold the post of chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), or Aadhaar. The project has been dogged by controversy since its inception in 2009 … Read More
The Aam Aadmi Party’s links with questionable activists in India make sense if one studies its ‘Made in UK’ agenda, which explains the seemingly disparate causes it espouses, and its visceral hatred towards the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate. Informed sources say that the AAP core leaders are only … Read More
Sharpening his attack on Nitish Kumar for wrecking a viable coalition in pursuit of his Prime Ministerial ambitions and exuding confidence that the NDA would form the next Government at the Centre, Narendra Modi challenged the Chief Minister of Bihar and other States opposed to the BJP to publicly declare … Read More
The Congress-dominated UPA-II did not present the Equal Opportunities Commission Bill, 2011 in any session of Parliament, but may now set up this communally divisive body via the Ordinance route to harness Muslim votes in the forthcoming general election. The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs recently finalised the decision in … Read More
Article 370 is infructuous according to the provisions of the Indian Constitution, the Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir, and because the raison d’etre for its promulgation have long disappeared in the light of certain historical developments which cannot be reversed; hence the Supreme Court should delete it from the Constitution, … Read More
The Maoists have been spreading their footprint across the nation, particularly over the past year, unnoticed or ignored by the UPA which has largely engrossed with firefighting one scam or the other. As a result, Assam has been declared a Maoist-affected State for the first time; the two successor States … Read More
