Stalin proposes Rahul Gandhi as PM candidate
Taking the political lead in declaring the face of the united opposition for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, DMK president M.K. Stalin on Sunday proposed Congress president Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the anti-BJP front. He said the Gandhi scion had the ability to defeat the “fascist-Nazist Narendra Modi Government”. Addressing a public meeting at the YMCA Grounds in Royapettah, shortly after the unveiling of a life-size statue of late DMK leader M. Karunanidhi at Anna Arivalayam , Mr. Stalin said, “We will install a new Prime Minister in capital Delhi.
Navy to helm centre on maritime security
The Navy will formally inaugurate the Information Fusion Centre (IFC) for the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) later this week. Through this Centre, information on “white shippin”, or commercial shipping, will be exchanged with countries in the region to improve maritime domain awareness in the Indian Ocean.
ISRO’s GSAT-7A to add more heft to Air Force
Military communication satellite GSAT-7A, due to be launched on December 19 evening from Sriharikota, is expected to add a new space-based dimension to the way Indian Air Force interlinks, operates and communicates with its aircraft as they fly and with command centres on ground, according to multiple sources.
Defeat BJP for attacking voice and culture of India: Rahul Gandhi
Accusing the BJP-led central government of attacking the voice, culture and institutions of Tamil Nadu and India, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said everyone in the country would get together to defeat the rightwing party in the next Lok Sabha polls.
Hockey World Cup: Doughty Belgium gets the top of the world feeling
It took the team an extra shot, a nerve-racking 60 minutes and some tense moments but in the end, maiden finalist Belgium proved more than equal match for three-time winner the Netherlands, being crowned the new champion of world hockey at the Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday with a 3-2 win in shootouts. The game remained goalless at the end of regulation time.
Bank credit: is it growing, and where’s it going?
Credit flow to industry, or the lack of it, has been a bone of contention between the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). While RBI and its supporters assert that bank lending is now growing at a brisk pace, the government and industry lobbies insist that the credit taps remain shut. So who’s right? An analysis of RBI data on the deployment of bank credit yields some answers.
Opinion | Restoration of political sanity in Sri Lanka
New space has emerged for de-escalating Sri Lanka’s political crisis with the timely and judicious intervention by the Sri Lankan Supreme Court. Following the two rulings made by the top court, last Thursday and Friday, Ranil Wickremesinghe — the Prime Minister who was sacked on October 26 by Maithripala Sirisena, Sri Lanka’s President — was again sworn in on Sunday as the new Prime Minister . The new cabinet is scheduled to be sworn-in today, Monday. With the Wickremesinghe-led United National Front (UNF) now back in power, the 50-day long tenure of Mahinda Rajapaksa, who replaced Mr. Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister, has also come to an abrupt end.
Editorial | Old vs new: how the Congress chooses CMs
Whether the Congress erred in privileging members of the old guard to lead the governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh has become a subject of debate. Those who argue that it missed a trick in not picking Sachin Pilot and Jyotiraditya Scindia as Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh may well be right.
Readers' Editor column | Reflections of readers
A gathering of journalists, academics and the public at “Fourth Pillar: India Journalism Week” turned out to be another open house. This was an initiative by Academe India and the University of Chicago Center in Delhi to examine the role of journalism in democracies. Along with Pamela Philipose, Public Editor of The Wire, and C. Rammanohar Reddy, Readers’ Editor of Scroll till recently, I was asked to reflect on this crucial institution. Questions were posed about the growing trust deficit in the media, the differences between various media houses, and the plurality of views in the public sphere, among other things.
The aim is to strike early, says Bumrah
Fast deliveries on the field, slow and measured words off it seems to be Jasprit Bumrah’s motto. When he addressed cricket reporters on Sunday while the second Test hurtled towards its imminent nail-biting climax, Bumrah had a potential landmine to diffuse — the Virat Kohli dismissal, which drew divergent views and some caustic remarks on social media.
