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Declining GDP, Swadeshinomics & Economic Roadmap Ahead

It's the biggest challenge for Modi Sarkar in six years. The current GDP growth-rate of India (quarterly) is 5%, the lowest in more than a decade. Moody's predict 5.8% for the next financial year, World Bank 6%, and RBI tells it 6.8%. Far away from the required 11%+ fo...

Modi-Xi Mamallapuram summit: Many optics little gain

Two days long second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the ancient town of Mamallapuram near Chennai in Tamil Nadu, after their first at Wuhan in China on 28 April 2018, ended on Saturday- 12 October 2019- on a pro...

Gandhi Anniversary: An occasion to gain legitimacy for some

The need for RSS to show that they were on the right side of Mahatma is cosmetic. RSS combine propounds 'exclusive Hindu nationalism', in contrast to Gandhi's 'all-inclusive Indian Nationalism'. Still they need to get the legitimacy from the greatest Hindus of his t...

Health should not be a victim of political machinations

Kashmiris must get full medicare now
Healthcare is a fundamental right of every citizen. Under no circumstances it should become victim particularly under politically made situation. There have been several reports about health care problems in the Kashmir valley after imposition of curbs on 5th August 20...

Maharashtra polls an acid test for NCP-Congress' relevance

No second fiddle to BJP, Shiv Sena fronts Aaditya Thackeray
Poll campaigning is at its peak in two important states-Haryana and Maharashtra. After return of Narendra Modi government in 2019 elections, this is the first test of whether the Prime Minister's popularity remains intact, or whether the Congress and regional parties h...

Sense of gloom pervading Indian economy

Fall in consumption leading to shrinking demand
A sense of gloom is swallowing up all the glow there is in the Indian economy. The noticeable among them is fall in the consumption pattern. Among the factors leading to such dire miseries is absence of jobs. That, in its turn, has led to fall in the capacity to buy ev...

Kashmir move strengthening separatists sentiments

Pro-India space in Valley gradually shrinking
Mohammad Ahraf Bhat prefers to sit indoors since the ruling dispensation in New Delhi did away with the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and split the state into two UTs - Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh. For Bhat the continuing lockdown or curbs are not the reason for st...

The death of democracy in Kashmir

Political philosophers, scientist, theorists and analysts took years and years of speculation and contemplation to come to the conclusion that democracy is the most sacred among all forms of government. This generation born in the most militarised zone in the world th...

A long road ahead for J&K, many risks loom

Two months after the government's August 5 Kashmir gambit, the official claims of near normality are mostly disbelieved. While mass protests have been stymied, questions persist, including overseas, over the denial of fundamental rights to the Kashmir Valley's seven mi...

If trees had blood flowing through their branches…..

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
What if those trees that were axed to death at Mumbai's Aarey Colony had blood flowing in their branches, then quite obviously blood would be spilling out …spreading out all over the expanse and even further…. Not that, that blood-spread-out sight would have made any d...

Is Indian approaching towards Hindu Rashtra?

It was a proud moment for Indians on Tuesday when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh received the long-awaited French-made Rafale fighter jet. Every Indian was overjoyed with the country's defence prowess. This special moment would be etched in the annals of India's glorio...

Restrictions, detentions in Kashmir India should end crackdown

Restore phones, release political detainees
It has been over two months since the Indian government revoked constitutional autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir and split the state into two centrally administered territories. And yet abusive restrictions, including a lockdown on internet and mobile phone services, remai...

The transported: Kashmiri prisoners sent far from home

SRINAGAR: One is a 19-year-old construction worker charged with aiding militants against Indian troops, the other is one of Kashmir's most prominent lawyers, accused of being "an incorrigible secessionist". Despite their different backgrounds, Uzair Maqbool Malik an...

Cuba prepares to indict U.S. blockade at United Nations

Trump regime is focussing on damaging economy
For the 28th consecutive year, Cuba will be asking the United Nations General Assembly on November 7 to approve a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. Every year, in preparation for this vote, Cuba's Foreign Mi...
 

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