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The resignation of Justice Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani, who had been the Chief Justice(CJ) of Madras High Court, has been accepted by President Ram Nath Kovind, and rightly so if she is indeed in the wrong. Reports suggest that the CJ was transferred to the Meghalaya...

The Reserve Bank of India has restricted banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) from sharing the credit information of consumers with unregulated entities. According to a report, such transfer of data, without the knowledge or consent of consumers had been happening for long. It is...

The population bomb is waiting to explode on us and neither China nor Pakistan would need to waste their nuclear arsenal to ensure that this nation, which now aims to become a $5 trillion economy by 2025, implodes. India has conveniently forgotten the number threat...

The plethora of schemes launched by the State government has had their fair share of critics since long. Many had been sniggering that such programs or rather doles only helped to enrich cadres of the ruling political outfit or resources thus spent had a negative...

Union home minister Amit Shah has desperately tried to stir a hornet’s nest by declaring on 14 September 2019, celebrated by the Central Government as Hindi Divas, to make that the national language. The Indian Constitution has stated both English and Hindi as Official Languages...

The impact of the current crackdown by the police on road safety violators as mandated by the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 has rubbed off on the ongoing economic slowdown. Cumulatively, the $119 billion automobile industry in India supports 37 million people directly or indirectly...

Palaniappa Chidambaram is cooling his heels in Tihar Jail. The high-profile Union minister for many years and Congress politician for most part, Chidambaram’s present fate is a warning to all those who indulge in corruption. An argument that this is a quid pro quo from...

Afghanistan remains a quagmire. The landlocked nation is bleeding for close to two decades and no end is in sight to the killings; and the scenario progressively worsening. President Ashraf Ghani’s first term in office ended and he is seeking a second term through the...

The Indian economy, we were told, was set to be powered by twin engines; but these engines, it appears, were shunted to either end of the rake and are pulling in opposite directions. During the last election campaign, the main thrust was that if both...

Kulbhushan Jadhav is a victim of geopolitics. The life of the former commander in the Indian Navy hangs in the balance as India and Pakistan haggle over his life. Pakistan avers that Kulbhushan is a spy; India says he is a retired Naval officer who...