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Budgets Need Greater Transparency
13 February 2018, by Bharat DograWhen the Budget speech of the Finance Minister ended this year, it was clear to most people that the most important measures announced in this speech related to a health insurance scheme for 50 crore people and the raising of the procurement (...) -
Win some, lose some: Carving a Diplomatic Pathway for India
13 February 2018by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
The recent victory by India in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a significant diplomatic victory, literally erasing the setback on the Masood Azhar case in the UN Security Council (UNSC) a month ago. The (...) -
Chief Justice and his Powers
13 February 2018, by P.B. SawantThe present controversy over the powers of the Chief Justice, whether of the Supreme Court or of the High Court to constitute, the Benches of the respective Courts, has more than one dimension. The constitution of benches is undoubtedly an (...) -
Is there a Threat to the Constitution?
13 February 2018, by Sudhir VombatkereOn January 13, 2018, four Supreme Court of India justices ranked in seniority immediately after the CJI, addressed the media concerning problems within the Supreme Court. Among other things, they asserted that democracy was in danger. Quite (...) -
The Uncontested and Contested Idea of ‘New India’
13 February 2018by Suranjita Ray
The ‘New India’ that would emerge by 2022 shall be free of communalism, casteism, terrorism, corruption, and nepotism. It is about Shanti, Ekta and Sadbhavana (peace, unity and harmony) and violence in the name of faith is not (...) -
Challenges Confronting Indian Republic
13 February 2018by D. Raja
India in 2018 confronts mounting challenges of crisis proportions. Such challenges are products of the divide and misrule of the BJP-led NDA regime over a period of three years. Never ever in post-independent India has the country (...) -
Does BJP want to Change Indian Constitution?
13 February 2018by Ram Puniyani
The BJP, which believes in Hindu nationalism, faces the dilemma about the Indian Constitution. Necessarily it has to pay its obeisance to Indian Constitution for electoral purpose to be sure. It has to seek votes from all (...) -
The Nature of Naxalite Movement in Naxalbari
13 February 2018, by J.J. Roy BurmanIn the June 5-11, 2009 issue of Mainstream weekly I had concluded that the Naxalite movement in Naxalbari in 1967 was neither a tribal movement nor a peasant movement; it was an ethnic upsurge in which migrant adivasi tea plantation labourers (...) -
Sri Lanka Local Bodies’ Elections
13 February 2018by Gautam Sen
A total of 15.8 million Sri Lankans will vote in the country’s third tier elections on February 10, 2018 to chose 8293 members to 341 local bodies, namely, 24 municipal councils, 41 urban councils and 276 pradeshiya sabhas or (...) -
The Castle in Davos
13 February 2018by Binoy Viswam
The reasons are yet unknown but Prime Minister Narendra Modi did open his mouth against the policy of protectionism in the World Economic Forum meet at Davos. Of course without mentioning the US by name he tried to express the (...)
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