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China is emerging as a major investor in India. . In 2015, Chinese investment in India leapfrogged eight times and China became the eighth biggest foreign investor in India. The sudden spurt in Chinese investment affirms Chinese confidence in the growth cycle of India, fuelled by low cost and high domestic demand. According to CEO of CITI group of India, “ India is among the top five markets for many MNCs”.

With the BJP spreading its tentacles all over India, the polarisation between the secular parties and the right wing BJP is bound to rise. The seven decades of the ‘left of the centre’ Congress politics in India is changing with the rise of the right wing politics. This is clear from the emergence of the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath but there are many more Adityanaths in the RSS and the BJP stable. The results of the recent five state Assembly polls indicate the rising power of the BJP in the other regions including the northeast, UP and Uttarakhand. The party is already looking to conquering other states, which are going to polls during next two years preceding Lok Sabha polls in 2019 including Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat., Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Rampant involvement of journalists, across diverse media profession, in nasty game of business and statecraft put them in public glare. Journalistic clout, personal connections with persons in powerful political, bureaucratic and corporate positions make media persons very resourceful, tempting the interested groups in trade, commerce, industry, political class, government, security setup to tap them for intelligence, lobbying for various benefits on quid pro quo basis and other favours. This also puts media persons under cloud for their coloured reporting of news, its analysis and interpretations, thus denying the people their inherent right to correct and fair information. There are always exceptions that help maintain the nobility of journalistic profession. That is why accreditation of media persons to both the Houses of Parliament assumes importance as it provides unhindered proximity of media personnel to movers and shakers of power that be.

Caught off balance by a stinging Supreme Court rebuff, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has just done the unthinkable: she admitted committing a ‘blunder’ in giving a Rajya Sabha ticket to Mr. K.D. Singh, who ran the shady Alchemist chit fund. Admitting a mistake is a ‘first’ for her.

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda deserves kudos for presenting a disturbingly true picture of the country’s state of healthcare in Parliament while presenting the national health policy. The document is reasonably dependable, though not comprehensive. It provides a complex background of the industry, dominated largely by a profit-motived private sector as successive governments faltered in providing proper healthcare to its people. There is little hope that things will change for the better. The government admits that the private healthcare industry is complex. But, it offers little towards a solution. Maybe, the damage has already been done by the persistent neglect of the sector over the last six decades leaving the field at the mercy of a corrupt and profiteering private sector. The policy document does not dig into the details about how the private sector succeeded in the complex business while the government failed despite its good intentions.

BHOPAL: On the last day of the budget session of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha on March 24, Comptroller and Auditor General of India demolished the claim of the BJP ruled state government that Madhya Pradesh has ceased to be a 'Bimaru Rajya'.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The performance of the 10-month-old Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government is poor.

Is decline and fall of Mayawati also the end of a Dalit dream? Does she have it in her to rebuild the movement and the party? In last ten years, BSP has gradually declined. Her party drew a blank in 2014 Lok Sabha election. And now, the BSP plummeted to a mere 19 seats in 403—member Uttar Pradesh assembly. Juxtapose that number with the 206 seats she won in 2007 to see how steep the fall has been.

Political turmoils in Tamil Nadu post-Jaya have heightened with the split in the ruling AIADMK and the breakaway group led by former Chief Minister Mr O Panneerselvam, claiming to be rightful heir to ‘Amma’s” mantle, ahead of a crucial by-poll (April 12) in Chennai’s R K Nagar constituency.

India is witnessing an interesting experiment being carried out by the RSS in the caste laboratory of Uttar Pradesh. While the prime minister, Narendra Modi would be the liberal and democrat face of the Sangh, especially the BJP, by installing Yogi Adityanath as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh the RSS has moved one step forward in its mission to showcase Uttar Pradesh as the model of the Hindu Rashtra.