The Union Cabinet to-day [December 10, New Delhi] had a brief discussion on Mr. Nath Pai’s bill to restore to Parliament the right to amend any part of the Constitution. It is believed they took note of the divergence of opinion in the ruling party over the decision to support …
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When the phone buzzes at odd hours, you know it’s Trump
On the tweeting President who makes the very existence of journalists irrelevant I don’t tweet much. And not using Twitter today is probably equivalent to a reporter not learning shorthand a few decades ago. You can get by, but only barely. If smart mining of the platform can yield useful …
Read More »Opening shot
India wins its first maiden Test of a series in Australia, firing hopes of a larger turnaround When R. Ashwin dismissed Josh Hazlewood and Virat Kohli roared in delight at the Adelaide Oval on Monday evening, they firmly threw down the gauntlet to hosts Australia. India’s 31-run victory over Australia …
Read More »Shock resignation
Urjit Patel stepping down as RBI Governor is a major embarrassment for the government The Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel has cited personal reasons for resigning with immediate effect, but anyone who has followed the events of the last couple of months will know it was anything but …
Read More »The Congress’s experiments
Its electoral tactics have logic but its ideologicalstrategy does not On December 11 last year, Rahul Gandhi was elected as president of the Congress party. Four and a half years after the party’s debacle in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Assembly election results of five States that will be …
Read More »Anchored in human rights
Instead of surveillance technologies, help TB patients by providing rights-based interventions Decades of global neglect have resulted in tuberculosis (TB) becoming the leading cause of adult deaths in most of the global south — it kills nearly two million people a year. This is shocking given that TB is curable …
Read More »Don’t believe the anti-GMO campaign
GM crops reduce pesticide use, increase yields and profits, and pose no health hazards A review article, “Modern technologies for sustainable food and nutrition security”, which appeared in the November 25 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Current Science, is deeply worrying. The article was authored by geneticist P.C. Kesavan and …
Read More »Ascent to the temple of democracy
The opposition to the Sabarimala order is reflective of a wider gender inequality in Malayali society Kerala’s reputation as a society that has evolved to an exceptional degree may have taken a bit of a beating. The reputation itself has been built on the strides made in the sphere of …
Read More »‘World must protect victims of wartime sexual violence’
Nobel laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad called on the world to protect victims of wartime sexual violence in their Peace Prize acceptance speeches on Monday, slamming indifference to the plight of women and children in conflict. Congolese gynecologist Mukwege, whose work has made him a global expert on rape …
Read More »Market may turn jittery: Economists
Urjit Patel’s resignation as the RBI Governor will cause jitters in the stock market and uncertainty over the central bank’s policies regarding non-monetary policy issues such as Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) norms, and diluting the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code rules for power sector companies, economists have cautioned. “This [the resignation] …
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