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(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli It is not beyond the realms of possibility that this year's Independence Day will prove to be, in retrospect, more memorable than any in the recent past. The claim ...

By Amulya Ganguli Having won the trust vote in parliament, even if by dubious means, the Manmohan Singh government and the ruling Congress can be said to be in a more comfortable position ...

By Amulya Ganguli It will not be wrong to say that Tuesday's trust vote in parliament marked a watershed in Indian politics. At the international level, it will undoubtedly move India into the ...

By Amulya Ganguli Instead of the "accidental" prime minister - Manmohan Singh's description of himself - it is the too-clever-by-half communists who have met with an accident in the sense of having suffered ...

New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) The union territory of Daman and Diu has the lowest sex ratio in the country - 710 women for every 1,000 men, an association of gynecologists said ...

By Amulya Ganguli Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has convinced itself of its excellent prospects in the next general election, it is not surprising that its two top leaders have spelt out ...

By Amulya Ganguli For a party and government which seem to have become temperamentally averse to taking risks and offending allies, the Congress and the Manmohan Singh government have taken an uncommonly bold ...

By Amulya Ganguli When then prime minister V.P. Singh lit the fires of caste conflict by implementing the Mandal formula of job reservations for the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in 1990, the politicians, ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli In addition to the Left's across-the-board setbacks in the West Bengal panchayat elections, the significance of the outcome is that the comrades have been hit where it hurts the ...

By Amulya Ganguli Raj Thackeray may have convinced himself that he is serving the cause of the Marathi 'manoos', but in actual fact he is doing a great disservice to Maharashtra and the ...

By Amulya Ganguli Since electoral considerations rather than a genuine desire for women's empowerment were behind the latest move to revive the 12-year-old legislation for reserving parliamentary and assembly seats for women, its ...

Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) Kolkata-based real estate major Bengal Peerless Housing Development Company Limited (BPHDCL) has bagged the rights to organise an exhibition match between German side FC Bayern Munich and local ...

(Interview) By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) US-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, who has just been honoured as the Person of the Year 2007 by a leading ethnic Indian paper in the ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli For all of Narendra Modi's and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) efforts to shift the focus of attention from the Gujarat riots to the state's development, the outbreak of 2002 ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli Taslima Nasreen's departure from India marks perhaps the lowest point in the history of Indian secularism. Significantly, it is not the supposedly anti-secular Hindutva brigade which has forced her into ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli Prakash Karat and Co must be smirking with satisfaction over the damage that they have been inflicting on India's reputation and growth prospects in recent times. First, by holding the ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli For the first time since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made his abortive take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Left on the nuclear deal, he displayed the same assertiveness in parliament last Wednesday. ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli If there was any doubt about the possibility of an early general election in India, last Friday's union budget has removed it. The display of massive populist profligacy in the ...

(Commentary) By Amulya Ganguli When Kerry Packer launched his "circus" in 1977, Indian cricketers were so much in the doghouse that not one of them was chosen to play. The omission was all the ...

By Pinaki Das Agartala, Dec 29 (ANI): The horror and ghastly impact of militancy is well portrayed in the 12-minute film titled 'Bhalo Rakhoni Bhoy', directed by Raikishori Ganguli of Tripura. Young filmmaker ...

By Pinaki Das Agartala, Dec 23 (ANI): There has been different ways of condemning militancy, which has turned out as a biggest menace in recent years, but the efforts of a young ...