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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan Government’s handling of the TP Senkumar issue is a classic example of how not to police the police. Senkumar retired as the police DGP on June 30 enduring the many humiliations he was subjected to.

The Modi government has unfeigned fascination over things digital as it believes that this technology is a savior and a salutary agent for positive change to alter the topography of governance for bringing immeasurable benefits to the Indian people. No doubt, the digital economy is a key driver of growth and development.

In the last four or five weeks, the military threat from China to India’s entire north-east has become apparent. Not since 1962 have Chinese troop movements become so menacing. The trouble started on the 1st of June when personnel of the PLA were found constructing a road in the Doko La or Dokolam area near Sikkim, which India claims as its own and the Chinese claim to be theirs.

A curious item in the charter of demands presented by Saudi Arabia and its allies to Qatar is a call for banning the popular and highly rated television channel, Al Jazeera. One can understand the insistence on outlawing the supposedly terroristic Muslim Brotherhood and the closure of a Turkish base on Qatari soil, but shutting down Al Jazeera?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was an utterly disgraceful display of patriarchal attitude. The shocked people of Kerala were treated to a malevolent manifestation of entrenched patriarchy by the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA).

KOLKATA: Disturbing lapses from normal procedural behaviour on the part of both the West Bengal Government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) in Darjeeling have led to a politically explosive situation in the strategic North Himalayan foothills. For the first time, a no-holds-barred battle between the GJM and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is under way, involving militant Gorkhas and the state administration. The decline in the level of administrative functioning and political discourse is a cause of major worry in political circles.

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh has set a world record by planting more than six crore saplings in a day last Sunday. But the big issue is how many of these would survive. Earlier records show that on an average only one out of five saplings survives.

There is a growing realisation among the opposition parties that their survival is now dependent upon their unity. In a democracy, an effective opposition is very important. Therefore, efforts are currently going on to unite the non-BJP parties but unfortunately they are facing road- blocks.

NEW DELHI: The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party India has severely condemned the move of the Government of India, to disinvest and sell away the “AIR INDIA” in the name of losses.

The hype over introduction of GST created such an atmosphere as if India would be radically different from the midnight of June 30. There was widespread fear that prices will zoom, trading collapse, farmers would be burdened with huge tax burden, retailers would cheat consumers charging premium on old stocks of goods.