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Democratic presidential candidates linked Donald Trump’s white supremacist agenda with the killing of 20 people by one of his supporters in Texas on Saturday, just hours before another mass shooting in Ohio.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala CPI(M) is in the dock over what the Opposition regards as a ‘capital crime’.

Is the Indian economy slowing down? Going by the consensus of projections we are, for sure. But then, by how much? That is anybody’s guess.

If at all there was any hope of success for the Supreme Court-appointed mediation effort in the Ramjanmabhoomi, it had disappeared within days of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi announcing the constitution of the mediation team.

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court declared triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat as unconstitutional, Parliament has passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, criminalising the obnoxious practice and, thus, made history. In its nearly year-and-half long sojourn in Parliament, searching questions have been asked of the Bill’s provisions. The legislation passed by the Rajya Sabha is somewhat different from the one introduced in the Lok Sabha in December, 2017.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was joined by his Cuban counterpart Miguel Díaz-Canel Sunday as they issued a rallying cry for regional unity “to confront the onslaught of U.S. imperialism.” The pair were among the speakers at the closing ceremony of the 25th São Paolo Forum in Caracas, which coincided with celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the birth of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013.

The result of Brecon and Radnorshire by-election in Britain shows two things. First, that despite the massive media campaign, there has been no swing to Remain. Quite the reverse. Those voting on Thursday moved in the opposite direction. Second, that Labour needs to restate the policies that almost won the last general election.

BHOPAL: There is a famous Hindi saying “Ulta Chor Kotwal to Datea”(thief scolding police officer). This saying fully applies to the two weeklies “Organiser” and “Panchjanya” patronised by the RSS. Almost in every issue the two weeklies run a column titled “Narad”. Incidentally RSS holds the view that Narad was the first reporter of human civilisation. Bhopal based Journalism University, when it was controlled by the RSS, used to tell its students that they must learn from Narad if they want to be a perfect investigative journalist. Here I will like to mention what the two weeklies wrote in their issues published in the month of July 2019.

Since the passage of the Triple Talaq Bill, has been passed, by both Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, there have been criticisms that it was passed by the BJP led NDA government with a selective mentality to criminalise the Muslim men. According to them, BJP, “which is anti-Muslim in nature”, is trying to attack the community through this bill — which has now become a law. Actually, it seems that the problem is not with the bill but with the BJP government. It is this political prism which is mostly responsible for this criticism.

India is ranked 77 among 190 economies in the ease of doing business, according to the latest World Bank annual ratings. The rank of India improved to 77 in 2018 from 100 in 2017. Ease of doing business in India averaged 124.82 from 2008 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 139 in 2010 and a record low of 77 in 2018. In the background of better and easier provisions for doing business implemented by RSS controlled BJP government led by Narendra Modi during the last five years of his first term as the prime minister, could India make any meaningful progress towards improving India’s growth prospects? The answer definitely is in the negative as data speak.