An eloquent and combative Narendra Modi defused the weapon of secularism that has hitherto been used to bludgeon the BJP, calling it a mask to cover up the twin crimes of the politics of vote-banks and corruption that have brought the nation to the brink of ruin. Addressing an unprecedented … Read More
Justice tends to be viewed as a triangular relationship of courts, lawyers and laws even today, but technology and forensic science have a major role in dispensing justice in the future, and Gujarat enjoys the distinction of hosting the world’s first Forensic Science University, Chief Minister Narendra Modi told a … Read More
Confident that Karnataka is set to return to the BJP fold, Narendra Modi reached out to the two new States messily created out of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, promised solace to the wounded Seemandhra, and lambasted the Congress leadership for wielding the butcher’s knife in a situation that called for great … Read More
Narendra Modi escalated his assault on the Nehruvian economic model that sought to run the economy through laws and distrusted the hard-working traders who created wealth and brought prestige to the nation with the sweat of their brow and quality of their product. Addressing the All India Traders Convention at … Read More
In the wake of a sting operation exposing 11 opinion poll agencies as willing to tweak their findings and show higher results for certain parties, obviously for a consideration, some television channels and news magazines have cancelled their contracts with the named agencies. The head of a leading new channel, … Read More
Two years after two Italian marines were arrested for shooting two Indian fishermen in Indian waters, the trial is yet to begin and the only new development in the case is that on Monday (February 24) the Government of India decided to drop anti-piracy charges against the accused, giving rise … Read More
‘Hindu terrorism’ maybe the UPA’s grand denouement. The Congress’s most maligned monster got a clean chit in the riots of 2002; his Minister of State for Home was not named in the CBI chargesheet in the Ishrat Jehan encounter case; and nemesis is now hunting their former prosecutrix. Now, Army … Read More
Border security has many dimensions, including sealing the porosity that permits drugs, fake currency, arms, and infiltrators to enter the country, Narendra Modi thundered at a gargantuan Fateh Rally organised by the youth wings of the BJP and Akali Dal at Jagraon in Ludhiana district of Punjab on Sunday. The … Read More
Narendra Modi continued his blitzkrieg in the Northeast on Saturday, stunning the region with his attention, the like of which it has never received in any Parliamentary election since independence. Addressing gigantic and enthusiastic crowds in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura, and tackling the burning issues in each, the BJP’s … Read More
After his awkwardly worded bail plea (“the victim was an educated modern woman”) failed and the legal pincer tightens inexorably, Tarun Tejpal, founder-editor of Tehelka, is seeking to project himself as a victim of a “Right Wing political conspiracy” as Goa, where he is being tried for rape, sexual harassment … Read More
