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Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan claims to have sent a report to the PMO giving details of major bank default candidates, but apparently there was no action taken on it. There are two possible scenarios regarding the report. On perusal of the report Modi may have decided that the list contained names that might cause him much embarrassment; so he sat on it. The second scenario could be that the report did not even land up on his table.

If the 92-year-old RSS is seeking an image makeover, it is a welcome sign. The wind of change is blowing all over the world, and it is time the RSS, should also bring about reforms and shed its image of an obscurantist organization. Those who have not reformed with times, like our Communist parties, particularly the Marxist, have withered with times. The first indication of “Glasnost” within the monolith organisation came from the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat in a lecture series to invited audience in Delhi’s Vigyan Bhavan.

Bad behaviour is repeated until it is punished. With serial rapists and Pakistan, there is never a singular incidence of any really bad behaviour. Bad behaviour is in their DNA. But seems like Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided enough of the punishment, let’s give Pakistan another chance to repeat the crime. Is it because he believes Navjot Singh Sidhu’s Greek god is the real McCoy, with the best of Sparta and Athens in him?

LUCKNOW: Why is BSP national president Mayawati so scared of Chandra Shekhar Ravan of Bheem Sena, who was recently released by the Yogi government?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Politics can be unpredictable. It can be cruel, too. Ask Kerala Congress(M) chairman K M Mani. He will nod in vigorous agreement.

Nitish Kumar has finally succeeded in getting his second in Command. Induction of his former electoral strategist Prashant Kishor into the Janata Dal United was initially presumed as a move by Nitish to work out a blue print of working policy and also to evolve a mechanism for seat sharing.

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. The United Nations invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.

It’s always nice to have someone from the outside to give good counsel and issue timely warnings. Especially if, like Raghuram Rajan, the outsider is actually an insider who knows the system inside-out.

While all the major countries, pinched by Trump’s unilateral high tariffs, took retaliatory measures by raising the tariff on imports from USA, India went one step forward and two steps back. Twice, it suspended its decision to impose high tariff on 29 items from the US. By the original schedule, high tariff was to be imposed from 4th August. It was deferred to 18th September and further to 2nd November.

Britain is on the brink of “social collapse” after “eight years of uninterrupted austerity” caused by brutal Tory spending cuts, Labour council leaders warned. Twenty-six leaders of Labour-controlled councils have signed an open letter calling on the government to “recognise the catastrophic impact” that austerity has had on local authorities across Britain.