Mumbai Maritime Board, on a BOOST basis, gave the project to Asianet chairman’s Hindustan Infrastructure Projects & Engineering, despite never having built a port before BJP-backed Rajya Sabha MP and Asianet News Channel chairman Rajeev Chandrasekhar-helmed company Hindustan Infrastructure Projects & Engineering Pvt. Ltd’s (HIPEPL) proposal to develop and operate an all-weather port at Vijaydurg […]
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Modi and Erdoğan: strong leaders putting their democracies in peril
At the beginning of May, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s first post-referendum foreign visit was to meet India’s prime minister Narendra Modi. Despite Erdoğan’s controversial pro-Pakistan statement just before the trip, the pair were pictured sharing friendly hugs as they vowed to tackle terrorism and extend economic relations. As they did so, it was hard not to notice the similarities between the […]
Explosive revelation in Judge Loya’s mysterious death, batch-mate says he was under pressure from Justice Mohit Shah
In a sensational twist to the mysterious death of judge Brijmohan Loya, one of his former batch-mates has revealed that his friend was under tremendous pressure from the former chief justice of Bombay High Court, Justice Mohit Shah. Judge Loya, who was presiding over the fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, […]
PM Modi violates poll code: public apology demanded
Rajput and Patidar community leaders are said to have demanded a public apology from the Prime Minister for inciting communities in a campaign speech in Gujarat Social media on Friday came alive with a video in which a Gohiwad Rajput Samaj leader in Gujarat is heard demanding a public apology from the Prime Minister for trying to […]
BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar declared assets worth ₹35 crore, hid ₹640 crore investment
he Asianet Chairman mentions only four companies in his election affidavit, does not mention Jupiter Capital, which has investments in Republic Television, Indigo 91.9 FM and Niramaaya Retreats Subverting Modi’s own claim of transparent politics, BJP-backed Rajya Sabha MP and Asianet and Republic TV chairman Rajeev Chandrasekhar has been found to have filed false information […]
Aadhaar: Promising identity, delivering – what, exactly?
The brazen arrogance with which Supreme Court orders have been flouted in harassing citizens to link their mobile numbers to Aadhaar subverts the very idea of justice India’s Unique Identity, Aadhaar, once touted as the cure-all for the woes plaguing the distribution of welfare benefits and government subsidies, today stands on the verge of becoming […]
India needs leadership that listens to people, not followership: Raghuram Rajan
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says there is no better alternative to democracy, but what is needed is persuasive leaders to take people in the right path. Excerpts from his interview with Sagarika Ghosh of The Times of India . Sagarika Ghosh: The government has just celebrated the first anniversary of demonetisation. Do you believe there is a cause […]
Media has chosen to polarise society as nationalist versus anti-national, says Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai, consulting editor of the India Today Group, delivered the Dileep Padgaonkar Memorial Lecture at the Symbiosis Vishwabhavan Auditorium in Pune on Monday. The lecture was organised by the Pune International Centre and Symbiosis International University. Speaking on the theme “Responsibilities of the Conventional Media in the Age of Proliferating Social Media”, Sardesai paid […]
Desperate Modi stoops to new low, twists facts, launches personal attacks
With the Congress putting up a good fight in Gujarat and Rahul Gandhi attracting eyeballs, the Prime Minister finds himself cornered as Assembly elections draw closer Does it behove a Prime Minister to stoop to the level of a street speaker and call his rival names? Certainly not. But Narendra Modi is a class apart […]
A Pied Piper leading us to the brink?
A year after demonetisation, even the Modi and BJP faithful wonder if it was all a mistake In Japan barely 48 hours after his dramatic announcement of Demonetisation , Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked smug and pleased with himself. Addressing a meeting of the Indian diaspora in Tokyo, he said in Hindi that they must […]