Scrutators

Such has been the disastrous pollution in Delhi and its environs in recent days. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal , driven to desperation, announced  that schools in the city would be closed temporarily to prevent serious damage to the health...

Scrutators

Bangalore was India’s pride, Bangaluru, as the city is now called, is India’s shame. The orgy of violence witnessed last week, of blazing buses and buildings will be etched in the public memory for decades, a benchmark of horror never to be...

Basit Ali, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India, came perilous to being declared persona non grta thrown out of the country, following his brazen public...

The Lok Sabha gave a massive endorsement to the GST Bill, with all 443 MPs  present voting in favour and none against. This sends the best possible signal   to investors at home and abroad that India is open for business. With monsoon rains...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid fulsome tribute to President Pranab Mukherjee’s ability to reach out to people with diverse backgrounds and cultures and establish a relationship of trust and mutual respect. In this context, he said certain...

Prime Minster Narendra Modi reached out to the opposition on the eve of the Monsoon session of Parliament in a bid to carry through important legislations,...

Burhan Wani, a 20 year-old member of the Hizbul Mujahideen was something of a Flash Harry poster boy, given to dressing in military fatigues, riding fast...

The killing of 20 hostages - Japanese, Italians, an American and a young Indian woman, aged 21, Tarashi Jain at a café in one of Dhaka’s hotspots has sent...

There is tumult and uncertainty in Britain, varying degrees of apprehension abroad following the Brexit referendum victory.  The establishments in the UK and EU, certain Remain party would carry the day, scarcely gave thought to possible defeat....

The media went into overdrive when news broke that Dr Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that he would not be seeking term after his present ended on September 4. He said he would return to the bowers of academe...

An empire built in Jawar Bagh, a 280 acre public park in the Uttar Pradesh city of Mathura,  by a cult leader named  Ramvriksh Yadav, ended in tragedy...

Triumph and Tragedy often go together. India experienced both last week. First the tragedy in which 19 lives were lost and many more injured, some seriously,...



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