Not Enough to Die For
In the winter session of the Parliament, minister of state for home RPN Singh had some startling figures to disclose. He told the house that more than 9,000 personnel from India’s elite paramilitary forces had quit their jobs even in the uncertainity of severe....
Rape Recoil
Bengal is suddenly in the grip of anxiety from Siliguri to Sealdah, and it is not just the failing health of its dream girl and former matinee idol 82-year-old Suchitra Sen. The worry is consuming chief minister Mamata Banerjee as ...
Southern Comfort
It is set for a battle royale in Karnataka. Two desperate and heavyweight politicians are fighting for Lok Sabha stakes and the battle has begun in right earnest. Karnataka Janatha Paksha (KJP) leader, former BJP chief minister...
In a Soup
In an era of coalition politics when anyone can throw his hat into the ring, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik is but a natural contender to head a potential third front. Some suggestions from influential non-Congress, non-BJP politicians to that effect are already....
Coming of Age
While the country’s defence modernisation plan is going on in fits and starts, real gains have accrued to the Indian Navy, which has been silently but steadily build up on its formidable operational strength and revealed visions of ...
India's main strategic threat comes from China
How do you define Maritime security? This is a term which connotes different things to different navies. While some perceive maritime security in a narrow
Ignore At Your Peril
Strikes, protests and bandhs have become the norm in Andhra Pradesh, the largest state in south India thanks to popular demand for the creation of a separate Telangana. With the Congress-led UPA taking a somewhat controversial
Bitter Sugar Battle in Maharashtra
Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghtana (SSS), based in sugar rich Kolhapur district of Maharashtra has emerged as the organised voice of farming community of the state. Founded by Raju Shetti, this organisation has occupied
The Protests Threatened to Boil Over
Farmers with ‘ganna’ (sugarcane) emblazoned across their chests blocked roads, sugarcane bonfires were lighted, angry crowds pushed through gates of closed mills and Satpal Singh, a sugarcane farmer
Sop Box
In run up to Lok Sabha elections, the Congress government in Karnataka is pulling out all stops. There are sops galore to woo the electorate, and for every sop the Siddaramaiah government
Unshackling the guillotine
The civil service, the country's steel frame and its backbone has for long been held to ransom by their marauding political masters.
Onion Catch-Up
Skyrocketing onion prices have spawned off a spate of off-beat ideas. Consider these:- •Onion Deals Online- Groupon India offered to sell onions to its customers at Rs 9 a kilo, in response to the mounting onion prices - funnily but unsurprisingly, this offer has caused the site to crash! Also, it was the first time Groupon India had a deal on onions.
ULFA in disarray
The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was formed in 1979, with the aim of creating a revolutionary people's movement that would help realise the democratic aspirations of the Assamese people. Never tiring of blowing the long foghorn about Assam's neglected status in the pantheon of Indian states, Front leaders spouted revolutionary fire and brimstone and dreamt of turning Assam into a sovereign state of its own. Their uncompromising faith and fervor in wresting justice for Assam won the heart of the natives,
Bend in the river
Within hours of landing in Beijing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had inked the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) with China aimed at preventing face-offs between troops of the two sides on the 4,000 km Indo-China border which has reportedly seen several...
Saving wetlands
These lines immortalized by India’s best known ornithologist, late Salim Ali, could apply to Noida today like a glove. For UP politicians hell bent on graft, the sanctity of the Okhla bird sanctuary is not paramount.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
