Do statutory national bodies such as the National Commission for Women (NCW) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have only cosmetic value, or are they a political tool to help the ruling dispensation at the Centre to harangue or protect State Governments? In over three weeks since the murder … Read More
Lawrence H Summers, President Barack Obama’s favourite for the post of Federal Reserve chief, was forced to withdraw from the race on September 15, as his role as Treasury secretary to President Bill Clinton in undoing the bank regulations that triggered the 2008 market collapse, triggered a revolt in the … Read More
Narendra Modi has pulled off a near impossible feat. Months in advance of the general election being called by an increasingly nervous Congress-led coalition at the Centre, he has managed to transcend the squabbles of long entrenched and rootless power brokers in Delhi, and get anointed as the Bharatiya Janata … Read More
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has agreed to oblige India once again by finalizing the extradition of ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia (alias Golap Baruah). The extradition has been scheduled to take place by December, notwithstanding the UPA Government’s inability to deliver on the exchange of land enclaves to … Read More
A clinical look at the sequence of rioting in Kishtwar since the targetted violence against the miniscule Pandit community and its forced exodus from the Kashmir valley in 1990 reveals a five-year cycle of aggression, viz., 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, and now 2013, which can hardly be coincidental. The implication … Read More
Even before it is officially signed into law by President Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi’s pet project, the Land Acquisition Bill, is set to yield unprecedented windfall gains to the corporates, industrialists, and big builders who had the ‘vision’ and deep pockets to invest in huge land banks in the guise … Read More
If the hyper secretive Congress party president Sonia Gandhi indeed flew to the United States for a medical check up on September 2, after triumphantly securing passage of the disastrous Food Security Bill in both Houses of Parliament, the US federal court that summoned her on charges of shielding party … Read More
Amidst disturbing reports that illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are managing to secure the Aadhar card for a modest price, the Mumbai High Court’s order refusing to recognise a birth certificate, passport or even an Aadhaar card as proof of citizenship in the absence of other evidences, comes as a ray of … Read More
http://www.niticentral.com/2013/08/30/hindus-provoked-in-assams-barak-valley-126356.html Tensions are rising in Assam’s border district of Karimganj amidst reports of pieces of beef being recovered from the Sitarist Mata Mandir in the Badarpur area on the night of August 28. Coming close on the heels of similar troubles in the Cachar district, it appears that the entire … Read More
The Jammu and Kashmir Government is discriminating between victims of the Kishtwar riots of August 9, 2013 in matters of relief, on grounds of being ‘State Subject’ and ‘Non-State Subject’. While the exact compensation to be disbursed to the victims is still undecided, the Government Order cited by Chief Secretary … Read More
