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Black Money: No Data Available

From telling the gullible masses that ₹15-20 lakh would be deposited in the bank accounts of the poor once the black money stashed abroad by some of corrupt Indians was brought back to confessing in Parliament that the Indian government has no estimates regarding this black money, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government have done more acrobatics than an accomplished trapeze artiste in a Russian circus. It took none less than Amit Shah, Home Minister of India, to dispose of the notion that Indians would get ₹15 lakh from the recovered money as a Jumla (a fast one) pulled off by “sahib” (read Narendra Modi) in the heat of…

By Vivek Mukherji

Budget 2025: Joblessness and Unemployment will haunt Modi government

India’s finance minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th budget…

Tablighi Jamaat : 1000 years of revenge

Two contradictions are evident. Through April and May this year,…

WINDS OF CHANGE

ADVERTISING : The name itself conjures up exciting images. Passion.…

THE ECONOMIC ROULETTE WHEEL

THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner.…

SYSTEMS FAILURE, SITUATION CRITICAL

ONE of most quoted allegories of incompetence for a person…

COSMIC DANCE, WORLDLY TRANCE

Faith, Lies & Tall Tales The COVID-19 disease is caused…

Governance

When protection becomes a product, the insured bec…

When Parliament passed the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025—with Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi both absent from the…

By Anil Tyagi

Digital evolution must remain human-centric: Anton…

For India, with its diversity of conditions and multiple layers of development, the validity of this approach is clear: AI can be a bridge across…

By Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad

Treat cybersecurity as a business and cultural mat…

Organisations, especially the Indian military and government, must begin preparation now rather than wait until urgency forces action. It is a matter of good management…

By Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad

Global Scan

When protection becomes a product, the insured become the hunted

When Parliament passed the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025—with Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi both absent from the decisive vote—it rewrote India’s insurance landscape. Backed by decades of external corporate lobbying and foreign…

By Anil Tyagi

Politics

Arvind Kejriwal, a former IRS officer, has risen like a phoenix in the political scenario
AAP’s Rural Sweep: A Pro-Incumbency High Today, a …

AAP secured around 218 of 347 Zila Parishad zones (about 63%) and over 1,500 of 2,838 Block Samiti zones, reaffirming…

By Prof Harjeshwar Singh
Venu’s magic minus the audience

Tongues are wagging inside the Congress party that if it wants to win the Kerala Assembly elections, then send K.C…

By Renu Mittal
Rahul Gandhi’s Caste Gamble Is Not Strategy — It’s…

The cracks are unmistakable. The party’s timeless mantra— “Na jaat pe, na paat pe; mohar lagegi haath pe”—once embodied a…

By Renu Mittal
Hemant Soren Govt in Jharkhand on the Brink: Congr…

Another blow to the already declining national standing of the Congress Party in 2025 is about to come. The Jharkhand…

By Renu Mittal
Partition of India: Sardar Patel sensed, Jinnah wa…

Patel felt that the nation Could survive without a Crown (Kashmir) but not without its Belly (Hyderabad). The 565 principalities…

By David Devadas
Trump’s Second Term: A Nation Split on Strength, P…

Much like his first term, US President Donald Trump, after 10 months in office, has proved in his second stint…

By TN ASHOK

Brick A Brick

Shankar Duo: Father-Son Diplomacy
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Kingmaker needs flesh
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Dharavi Goldmine
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CPM : Let Mamta be defeated first !
West Bengal Chief Mi...

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Media
Finally, BJP needs media
NDA 3 or Modi 2.0 ha...

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North and South faceoff
THERE is a kind of a...

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Hooda, Tulsi in Rajya Sabha
HOW did Deepender Si...

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By The Way

No Women, No Kids. That’s the rules!

This is a riddle that not more than 0.001% of those with an IQ of 160-and-plus can figure out. The reason is that it requires intricate, in-depth, insightful, intelligent, and possibly insidious knowledge and interpretations about national politics in several…

By Alam Srinivas and Anil Tyagi