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The statement made for the BJP gathering by Ms Nirmala Seetharamanhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/no-corruption-major-terror-attack-under-modi-rule-nirmala-sitharaman/articleshow/67499726.cms as Defence Minister was naturally surprising on two counts. Both focussed on internal security, one by stating that no major terror attacks have happened since 2014, and the other was about Congress party confabulating with Pakistan. On the latter charge, she will again be Read more

The battle lines in India’s largest Electoral College for the Lok Sabha is drawn. BSP and SP let by Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav have sealed their deal, sharing a neat 38 seats each leaving out four, 02 out of deference to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi individually and 02 for perhaps the RLD of Ajit Read more

Contrast with how the Supreme Court had come down heavily on the government of the day when it called the CBI a ‘Caged Parrot’. It came to this conclusion, not because the CBI was witnessing a turnstile treatment of its Director as now, but it was an observation about the pressures being placed on the Read more

This is another midnight stroke, quite like the one on 08 November 2016, which began with a prefaced address to the nation that rang with the syllable echo of “Mitron”! Only here this was a Cabinet decision of the government that enjoys a clear majority in the Lok Sabha, the first in three decades, and Read more

t seems that Indians do not understand a better perspective than cricket. So when I presage the discussion with a preface of cricket, I am aware of how much easier it translates into perception and acceptance in our midst. So this is a rank turner, and the team that won the toss, like at Sydney Read more

How do we view Kerala, the land of Parashurama, nestled between the seas and the Western Ghats? While new evidence has crept of washed up pottery, saptamatrikas and other statues, that were discovered not far from Kaladi, points to very ancient civilisation, we really do not need archeology to tell us how ancient and how Read more