The Indian decision to purchase 36 Rafale multi-role jet fighters from France in 'fly-away' condition will no doubt redress a critical inventory gap for the Indian Air Force (IAF) but it may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for French aerospace giant Dassault Aviation rather than the 'coup' it is being made out to be. This...
Eminent lawyers Ram Jethmalani and Anil Diwan on Saturday opposed the new system for senior judges' appointments, contending respectively that government as the biggest litigant could not take this role, and affect the judiciary's independence but senior counsel T.R. Andhyarujina pitched for giving the NJAC a chance....
Speaking after releasing his biography,"The Rebel" by Susan Adelman, he said that he would have said a lot about the chequered career of Jethmalani and his achievements but he had to "restrain" himself as everything said by him gets attributed to the him as chief justice of India....
The embarrassing news that India ranks 101th in the Social Progress Index among 133 countries, lower than even Nepal, may well be the right occasion to narrow the focus on states which might be examined as milestones. This examination will have to be done by serious social scientists. An itinerant journalist can offer no more than a birdâ€â...
While making the unwarranted and unsubstantiated allegation of how the judiciary is scared of "five-star" activists belonging to NGOs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to have forgotten the intimidatory presence in the background of outfits such as the RSS which can be called non-state actors where his own government is concerned. ...
Looking back at the untimely death of a promising young man by his father...
The protagonists of conversion–reconversion debates may kindly enlighten us Keralites as to the way in which we can convert out of our Malayalee provinciality....
For independent observers, what is happening to the body politic of Kerala is quite extra-ordinary and, may be, even amusing to some others. However, for the common man on the street who is working hard to make both ends meet, it is downright insulting to their intelligence....
Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi on Friday opposed the proposal to lower the legally defined age of "juvenile" but called for special measures to deal with heinous crimes committed by teenagers....
A look at the wonderful 1990s in Bollywood, chronicling the rise of a "frugal economy" in some Western countries and a super sleuth solving an unusual case. An assortment of films, economics and fiction, the IANS book stack this week has a variety of options. Take a look....
