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Can anybody shout Parliament has gone to the dogs and get away with it? Will such liberty with the temple of democracy invite the wrath of Parliament, a privilege notice? But how does one get the blasphemous thought out of the head? For things have certainly gone from bad to worse for Parliament. Time was when Parliament used to be a serious subject. Nowadays, there’s little good to talk about Parliament, and to write home about. Half the time it is adjournments, and the other half with MPs in the well!

Developments in Sri Lanka have served as an eye-opener to the inherent dangers of prodigal spending by governments and the implications of freebies model. Unprecedented visuals from the island nation — of people dropping dead while waiting in multi-kms long queue for petrol and diesel, a sea of humanity swarming the presidential palace and other grandiose buildings, running them down and savouring the luxuries once enjoyed by their rulers—have made political leaders in India sit up and think. There is a new awareness about the unsustainability of short-term gains of welfare politics.

NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has taken over as the first tribal-origin President of India after causing big cracks in the opposition. The election of the Vice-President is due on August 6. BJP candidate Jagdeep Dhankar is set to win comfortably as the NDA supporters have majority in the Electoral College. Moreover, the Trinamool Congress, despite having a total of 35 MPs in both houses of Parliament, has announced its decision to abstain from voting for the opposition V-P candidate Margaret Alva, saying that the party was not properly consulted before selection.

The Sonali Bank Limited, the biggest state owned bank in Bangladesh is under controversy. The Bank management has been accused by All India Bank Employees’ Association general secretary C H Venkatachalam in a letter on 25 March 2022 of having trampled the laws of land in India to sack the general secretary of Sonali Bank Employees Association Syed Md. Sahabuddin and a few other staff of Kolkata and Siliguri branches of SBL But the SBL management chose to ignore the AIBEA letter.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political showdown is brewing between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government and the Union Government over the latter’s attempt to weaken the former through partisan use of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Few images have dominated the political discourse in recent times as much as the ‘bulldozer.’ For the Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’), it stands for its ruthless but popular mode of performing ‘justice’ on those it sees as criminals or enemies. For critics, the image of a bulldozer relentlessly demolishing structures is an accurate depiction of the ruling party’s approach toward the rule of law, the autonomy of key public institutions, civil society, and policy-making. The literal bulldozers sprung to action in Uttar Pradesh, to begin with.

India’s Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran is of the view that India’s Inflation though beyond RBI’s band is not that big a source of worry as it is still much less than several advanced economies, some of whom have it in double digits. Inflation no doubt is a global phenomenon at the moment and India is no exception. The inflation is mostly due to excess money pumped into the system in a bid to manage difficult situation arising out of Covid Pandemic. As excess liquidity is being slowly sucked out of the system through monetary measures by various central banks, the inflation spike continues and the taming it appears to be slow.

Dynastic politics is perhaps the antithesis of democracy. Critics say it is amongst many political evils in the Indian democratic setup where most parties, including the Congress, are being run like family enterprises. The paradox is many regional satraps have emerged in the past 75 years and co-exist in a democracy. More are emerging.

New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Tuesday advised its athletes, taking part in the Commonwealth Games, to avoid spending time in public places in Birmingham because of the threat of Covid-19.

New Delhi: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) acting president Anil Khanna, and treasurer Anandeshwar Panday, on Tuesday strongly pleaded for the inclusion of shooting and wrestling at Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games.