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P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.
July 21,2024 07:30:17 AM
Neglect, bordering on derision, of these issues caused the disastrous slide in the number of seats won by the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024. The BJP is not repentant. Nor, going by public statements, is it willing to reconsider its model: crony capitalist, trickle-down, capital biased and protectionist...
Wed, Jul 24, 2024July 14,2024 07:09:49 AM
Which is the platform to ask the questions and receive answers? No one in the government has answered the questions so far, but the questions will not go away.
Sun, Jul 14, 2024July 07,2024 07:10:07 AM
The keys to the kingdom are in the hands of the TDP (16 MPs) and JD-U (12 MPs). Both will bide their time. Both will await the Budget. Both will keep up the demand for ‘special category’ status which they know Mr Modi will not give them.
Sun, Jul 07, 2024June 30,2024 07:05:44 AM
There have been several setbacks in the 20 days since the government was formed.
Sun, Jun 30, 2024June 23,2024 07:00:33 AM
The LS elections of 2024 have given an opportunity to both the Treasury and the Opposition to revive the great traditions of Parliament. Not just the form but the substance of a parliamentary democracy.
Sun, Jun 23, 2024June 16,2024 08:01:15 AM
Mr Narendra Modi got a conditional mandate to form the government but, as is his wont, he allowed hubris to cloud his judgement. After the initial shock, Mr Modi realized that there were no challengers to him in his party and no other party had the numbers to stake a claim...
Sun, Jun 16, 2024June 09,2024 07:30:50 AM
It will be Exit, Mr Modi, the authoritarian prime minister of a single-party government and Enter, Mr Modi, the prime minister of a coalition of many parties with barely a 20-seat majority (of which TDP has 16 MPs and JDU 12 MPs).
Tue, Jun 11, 2024June 02,2024 07:47:00 AM
India, I believe, needs and deserves change. Ten years ago, there was a clamour for change, and the change of government took place from UPA to NDA. I think India is at such a moment again. There is much that has happened in the last 10 years that must be reversed or remedial action taken...
Sun, Jun 02, 2024May 26,2024 08:00:47 AM
Congress’ manifesto LS 2024 acknowledged that, over the years, especially in the last three decades, India's economy has grown.
Sun, May 26, 2024May 19,2024 07:55:03 AM
To milk the cash-buffalo, the central government may launch a new programme to promote buffalo-rearing and provide an initial outlay of Rs 806,000 crore (at the rate of Rs 1,000 crore per district of India).
Sun, May 19, 2024May 12,2024 08:00:05 AM
BJP leaders admit privately, 370 or 400+ is no longer achievable and they would be happy if the BJP won a simple majority.
Sun, May 12, 2024May 05,2024 07:10:50 AM
By putting out lies and enabling the truth of the Congress’ manifesto to be brought into the election debate, and making no reference to BJP’s manifesto, Mr Modi has endorsed Mr Stalin. He has acknowledged that the Congress’ manifesto is the true hero of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
Sun, May 05, 2024April 28,2024 08:00:57 AM
M K Stalin, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, hit the bull’s eye when he described the Congress’s manifesto as the ‘hero of the LS election
Sun, Apr 28, 2024April 21,2024 08:00:39 AM
The Modi ki Guarantee of UCC and ONOE has sparked furious debate in the elections. I can predict what the verdict of the people of Tamil Nadu (April 19) and Kerala (April 26) will be.
Sun, Apr 21, 2024April 14,2024 07:55:19 AM
Congress will establish a Diversity Commission that will measure and promote diversity in employment and education.
Sun, Apr 14, 2024April 07,2024 08:00:09 AM
The allegations in the cases against chief ministers are that they received “bribes” in order to do favours to the bribe-giver(s).
Sun, Apr 07, 2024March 31,2024 07:45:56 AM
Next is Operation Lotus, another patented exercise of the BJP: encourage defections and give tickets to the defectors. I am told that the BJP will eventually nominate a little over 400 candidates. Up to 50 candidates will be defectors.
Sun, Mar 31, 2024March 24,2024 08:30:23 AM
The crisis created by alphabets, numerics and alpha-numerics has assumed proportions that may threaten national interest and, even, national security.
Sun, Mar 24, 2024March 17,2024 07:10:11 AM
The success of the regional parties has worsened the distance between the North and South.
Sun, Mar 17, 2024March 10,2024 08:15:51 AM
There should be no more than three phases of election in the country and polling in a state should be held on one day; in bigger states, it can be on two days.
Sun, Mar 10, 2024March 03,2024 07:45:43 AM
The CEO made this astonishing claim based on the results of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) published by the National Sample Survey Office
Mon, Mar 04, 2024February 25,2024 07:07:29 AM
The record of the BJP/NDA government in the last 10 years has been uninspiring. Against the UPA’s record of 6.7 per cent under the new series (it was 7.5 per cent under the old series), the NDA government has been able to register a growth rate of only 5.9 per cent over ten years
Sun, Feb 25, 2024February 18,2024 08:00:32 AM
The government’s White paper was too white. It blacked out the many achievements of the UPA government and white-washed the monumental failures of the NDA government (including demonetisation and the destruction of the micro and small sector).
Sun, Feb 18, 2024February 11,2024 08:00:01 AM
The NDA government likes to be very loud. This year, while presenting the interim Budget for 2024-25, the Hon’ble Finance Minister (FM) chose to use a bullhorn
Sun, Feb 11, 2024February 04,2024 08:00:17 AM
My favorite poet-philosopher had a whole Part on love in his immortal work, Tirukkural (c. 500 CE). The Part on love has 25 Chapters and 250 couplets. Here are some that could help discover some rules:
Sun, Feb 04, 2024