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The Scorpene data leak is a major strategic blow for the Indian navy. Already facing an acute shortage of capable submarines the Indian navy has suffered a significant harangue with the data of the characteristics and war details of the submarine being compromised. It is not yet clear who accessed and leaked the information. Was it a hackers’ game or powers inimical to India conspiring to derail the project?

The flavour of the season is the demand for quotas from Haryana Jats to Gujarat’s Patidars to Kapus of Andhra Pradesh .The Marathas are the latest to go on a war path in Maharashtra demanding reservation. They have resorted to peaceful silent marches but have threatened to escalate it soon. Even as the Fadnavis led BJP government in Maharashtra is struggling to face the unprecedented silent marches, there is unrest in other castes like OBCs, Muslims and Dalits.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP), the powerful organization of Ezhavas, who constitute around 27 per cent of the state’s population, has spoiled the BJP’s euphoria over the ‘phenomenal success’ of the party’s national council session held in Kozhikode, Kerala.

When Narendra Modi Government began the second innings of the NDA in May, 2014, it plumped for “Make in India’, “zero- defect zero-effect” policy of low-carbon growth pattern and to provide policy ballast to the country’s merchandise exports. As the government is in its mid-term, things have not radically changed with industrial growth continuing to plod on with tepid growth withal no tangible employment generation from the secondary sector in the absence of consistent and continuous policy support for skill upgradation from legions of job-seekers across the country.

An innocuous announcement made by the union finance ministry last week went largely unnoticed. The ministry had announced that the issue of securities for the Sovereign Gold Bond scheme has been pushed back from September 23 to September 30. As such, what significance does it have, one can ask.

Yet another colonial hangover has been dismantled with the cabinet recently deciding to scrap nearly a century old practice of having separate Railway budget, a move started by the British in 1924 as at that time rail budgets used to be very large financially.

Despite spreading canards and projecting him as the modern Stalinist tyrant, the USA and particularly the Obama administration has to cut a sorry figure as it miserably failed in its design to inflict damage and ensure the defeat of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin at the recent election to the Duma, the parliament of the Russian federation.

LUCKNOW: With large number of exodus of leaders from different castes in recent months ,it is going to be a do or die battle for BSP supremo Mayawati who is working very hard to get back power in 2017 after assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The development of agriculture, which had suffered badly under the erstwhile United Democratic Front (UDF) government, received a big boost with the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s decision to clear the amendment to the Paddy Land and Wetlands Act, 2008.

Arvind Kejriwal carries a monumental chip on his shoulders. It was revealed when Navjot Singh Sidhu appeared on the scene. Sidhu wanted to be the Aam Admi Party’s (AAP) candidate for the Punjab chief minister’s post. But Kejriwal was unwilling to commit himself. The reason was that if Sidhu, or someone else, became the chief minister in the (unlikely) event of the AAP winning the polls, that person would become the chief minister of a full-fledged state while Kejriwal himself would remain a notch down the pecking order as the CM of a mere Union Territory.