Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy talks to the media, in Vijayawada on March 15, 2020. (Photo: IANS) YS Jagan Mohan Reddy joined with the hope of being a young dynamic CM…
BY ASHIS RAY I thank you for what I consider to be a great honour to say a few words on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his birth centenary. It’s a matter of…
By Arul Louis and Nikhila Natarajan New York, March 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Donald Trump has unveiled an unprecedented plan to send cash aid directly to most Americans to help them tide over the financial…
Kuwait City, March 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two Indian expats in Kuwait ended up stabbing each other after an argument between the two turned violent, a media report said. The incident took place in Salmiya area, the…
BY D.C. PATHAK Perhaps the most meaningful observation about corona virus that a medical professional made in an interview, was that ‘the virus has understood us better than we have understood it’ thereby suggesting that…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets went crazy on Friday the 13th and we had a reversal which is unparalleled in recent times. The benchmark indices hit the lower circuit of 10 per cent and on reopening,…
BY SAEED NAQVI The Idea of India is being fiercely contested within Hindu society. Rampaging communalism is an offshoot. The latest to pick up the glove are two senior members of the Indian Foreign Service….
BY D.C. PATHAK The domestic scene in India looks like it is acquiring an air of general disquiet for several reasons — the after effect of ‘communal’ violence in the capital that had caused large…
By Yajurvindra Singh Saurashtra’s dream of winning the Ranji Trophy was finally achieved. The four-time finalists in the last eight years deserved the Indian domestic cricket’s premier trophy and it took grit, hard-work, effort and…
BY PINKI VIRANI Four hangings as splints for a fracturing land. In caste-inequity normative India — where mythology is becoming history, politically-inconvenient histories being pathologized, “anti-national” students baton-whipped, minorities being demonized, rights selectively denied: all,…
By Arun Kejriwal After a tough and volatile week one expected markets to consolidate. Unfortunately, while in the first four days of the week they did exactly that, Friday saw yet another sell-off and caused…
BY D.C. PATHAK The US-Taliban agreement signed at Doha on February 29 — in the presence of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — does make a lot of sense from the American point of view…
BY SAEED NAQVI It would be unfair to compare the Shaheen Bagh anti CAA, NPR, NRC movement with mass mobilization efforts leading to independence. The movement has no Gandhi leading it. Its spontaneous expansion across…
Bharatiya Janata Party Past, present and future: Story of the world’s largest political party By Shantanu Gupta Published by: Rupa Publications India As the Congress ruled the government for decades after Independence and the left…
By Yajurvindra Singh Cricket in Saurashtra has had a long lifeline. The pin-up boy of world cricket in the late 19th century was none other than the prince of Nawanagar, Ranjitsinhji. It was his super…
BY FRANK ISLAM India and the United States of America are the two largest democracies in the world. For most of this 21st century, they have served as solid examples for others to follow. The…
By Arun Kejriwal SBI Card and Payment Services Ltd which had tapped the capital markets with its fresh issue of Rs 500 crore and an offer for sale of 13,05,26,798 equity shares was subscribed 26.49…
By Dr Birbal Jha With the havoc of coronavirus, a contagious disease all around, people in common seem to be scared of it. They have a strong reason to be concerned for want of no…
By Arun Kejriwal The week gone by saw the markets under a lot of pressure and they capitulated on Friday in the last hour. There was fear in the markets with coronavirus (covid-19) written all…
BY MAJ GEN (RETD) S.B. ASTHANA A long-awaited historic US-Taliban Peace Deal stands signed by US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on February 29, 2020. All stake holders have…