Erdogan has lost the plot
One small and successful war might benefit the Turkish President by mobilising nationalism but three at once? This is megalomania Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an “Islamist”, in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn’t wear a suicide vest, he doesn’t behead people, he doesn’t get his citizens...
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Hear out the States
06 February 2020 | Prasenjit Biswas -
Homecoming of sorts?
05 February 2020 | Pioneer -
Soldiers without boots
05 February 2020 | Pioneer -
Priyanka must rebuild the party in UP
05 February 2020 | Kalyani Shankar -
Localisation of data vital
05 February 2020 | Omkar Rai -
A ‘patriotic’ cover-up
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How well-prepared are we?
05 February 2020 | Debanshu Roy
War against terror has to be fought in the mind
Words alone may not have the potency to win battles but they definitely have the strength to rupture the very existence of terrorist outfits that constantly take advantage of naïve, god-fearing people Recently, a group of terrorists, travelling in a Srinagar-bound truck on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, opened fire at a police...
More innovative thinking needed
The Budget sets our fiscal policies. Therefore, there were major expectations of initiatives to handle the economic crunch Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman revealed a wide range of policy initiatives in her Budget speech on February 1 but people paid more attention to the restructuring of income tax slabs because this...
Not fighting a losing battle
There’s hope for people with advanced stage cancer due to new diagnosis, monitoring and personalised treatment methods available today and the new ones being developed Communicable ailments are on the decline in India but non-communicable maladies like cancer and cardiovascular diseases are on the rise. Cancer has emerged as one of...
Baby steps
There is a need to transform the personal income tax system but did the Budget go far enough? On the face of it, the new income tax slabs might have seemed like a slight saving window, particularly for younger earners. While this seems to be the result of a report on...
Forked tongue
If the BJP indeed is serious about talks with Shaheen Bagh women, then it must stop pushing the goli maaro brigade When the women of Shaheen Bagh sat in protest against the Government’s new citizenship law and identity policies, they simply were defending their right to be defined as Indians and...
Reading the Act
The CAA offers fast-track citizenship to persecuted minorities (not Hindus alone) and does not ‘explicitly vow not to take a single downtrodden Muslim’ As the unending Delhi-based protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) seem to be heading for face-saving talks, Western media busybodies have rushed to the cause, alleging a...
No statement of accounts from the FM
Allocations and numbers don’t synchronise with the projections. This Government keeps on talking of long-term solutions for every problem but should we all starve and wait in the short-term? The biggest problem with the longest Budget speech is there was no comparative on allocations to any scheme with that of the...
