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Left Democrats determined to do away with students debt
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren recently made waves after she announced her idea to eliminate student loan debt and make all public colleges free. The plan would hypothetically cancel student loan debt for more than 95 per cent of borrowers, and would entirely ca...

Even negatives do not seem to affect Narendra Modi

BJP is now way ahead of Congress
What is remarkable about Narendra Modi's triumph is that none of the factors which were expected to undermine his position has had any effect on the popular support for him. Neither the hugely disruptive measures like demonetization and GST, nor the continuing unemplo...

Iran: An Unwinnable War

"After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favourably for the United States," said Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism adviser in the White House under three administrations. That was back in 2007, and he w...

Trump's trade war does not help US workers

America needs massive investments to green its economy
"Trade is a zero-sum game." "There can only be one winner and one loser, and the United States is losing." That's the message Donald Trump has been hammering since before he even came into office. The biggest villain in his nationalist nightmares, beating and cheating ...

Election spending norms are totally out of tune, promoting fraud

Corrupt candidates and parties vow good governance
Now that the 2019 Lok Sabha election is over and soon a new government is to be formed, it may be time to review and rework on the norms of election spending which has unofficially exceeded even the combined 2016 US presidential and congressional elections cost estimat...

India was of little value to ISIS. That's all set to change now

Global jihad organisations like ISIS and al-Qaeda now believe they have a more ready audience in India for their brand of radicalisation
Indians can no longer be smug about the relatively few ISIS radicals it has had so far. A resurgent global jihad now has more reasons to be drawn to India than ever before. The very fact that the ISIS has chosen South Asia as the region for staging its comeback, follo...

L'affaire Viraat

Prime Minister Modi's electoral campaign "expose" of misuse of naval assets by the late ex-PM, Rajiv Gandhi, his wife Sonia Gandhi and a host of others with them in 1987 during a visit to Lakshwadeep Islands aboard INS Viraat, has naval circles buzzing. This is not in...

A democratic exercise but an atmosphere of fear

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Filing the column at a rather stressful juncture - declaration of the election results are just a couple of days away but already exit-poll results are causing not just dismay but carrying forewarnings of very eerie build-ups. Doing the rounds the theory that the exit ...

Modi is PM again if exit polls are correct

Exit polls have pronounced the victory of the BJP-led NDA and return of power of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. All exit polls barring the ABP-Nielson that is little away for rest of them point out to a clear sweep of the BJP and its allies. While exact numbers would ...

A weird election campaign in India!

What are the current Indian elections about? About an "endangered" majority, misdeeds of the "anti-nationals" colluding with a minority, a Pakistan threatened with nuclear war, a Congress Prime Minister travelling by an aircraft-carrier in 1988, and other past events! ...

Modi is pinning hopes on TINA factor for second term

Regional parties confident to form a coalition govt
All eyes are on as the election process is ongoing in the world's largest democracy. Across the globe people are eagerly waiting for May 23, the day of announcement of the poll results. The seventh and the last phase of election is slated to be completed on the May 19....

Gandhi's Assassin Godse's ideological inheritors

Pragya Thakur, Malegaon blast accused out on bail on health ground, is at the centre of the present turmoil around Nathuram Godse. The story begins with her filing nomination papers for Bhopal Loksabha constituency. The criticism came up that how can an accused of act ...

Urgent need for electoral reforms in India

By Yashwardhan Joshi
It's all credit to the Election Commission that hundreds of millions of voters are able to exercise their franchise peacefully and in a free and fair manner time and again. This time too, the elections to the Lok Sabha have gone on smoothly. Yet, the poll body has cur...
 

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