Justice Markandey Katju – A Chief Justice of India, like Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion. But certain recent developments in India’s Supreme Court, the latest being the inordinate delay and repeated adjournments in hearing the Ram Janmabhumi case,( fixing dates for fixing a date etc) has caused murmurings and raised questions about the […]
Vinita Gupta – Mark, last week you published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal complaining that Facebook is getting a bad rap despite all the good it has done. You are right on many counts but increasing Facebook’s value for its shareholders has become your sole obsession. You are seriously ignoring how Facebook is being […]
Justice Markandey Katju – The Ram Mandir issue has again picked up momentum as Lok Sabha elections approach, and it is obviously connected to the latter. The Supreme Court is being blamed by many people for procrastinating over the case before it, and there have been some protests outside the Court premises. Whichever way […]
IANS – India has improved its ranking by three positions in the Global Corruption Index 2018 released on Tuesday while the US has dropped out of top 20 countries for the first time since 2011. India, which was ranked 81st in 2017, is ranked 78 in 2018, according to the latest Corruption Perception Index […]
Justice Markandey Katju – 26th January is being celebrated as Republic Day in India, but I have renamed it as ‘ Cheer Haran ‘ Day. The truth is that the Constitution promulgated in 1950 has been flagrantly flouted and torn to shreds and has been rendered a scarecrow, hollow and empty, and now only […]
Partha Chakraborty – A bearish stance against secular growth of India will be a sore loser… Over three weeks I crisscrossed thousands of miles in India by rail and by road – waking up with infinite loops of sugary milk tea in small glasses at no-name places, eating exclusively in roadside […]
Shalini Nataraj – At dinner with friends on Martin Luther King Day, the topic of Kamala Harris running for President came up. The questions that arose: “Is it too early for her to run, after only a couple of years in the Senate? Is the country ready for a woman as President, leave alone […]
Ritu Jha – Members of the Indian American community expressed excitement and pride after learning of Kamala Harris, the Democratic senator from California, entering the 2020 presidential race. Harris, 54, is a daughter of immigrants, who came to the United States for higher education. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer researcher, came […]
IANS As India gears up for the Lok Sabha elections, Google on Tuesday announced updated election ads that will provide comprehensive information about who is purchasing these on Google platforms and how much money is being spent. The updated election ads policy will require advertisers to provide a “pre-certificate” issued by the Election Commission […]
Arul Louis(IANS) – Three international organizations have endorsed India’s growth story recognizing it as the world’s fastest growing major economy for this and the next three years and in two reports raised some of their earlier projections. On Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report released in Davos estimated India’s gross domestic product growth […]
