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Window of opportunity
India has invited Pakistan Foreign Minister for SCO meeting may not result may break the ice India inviting Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Goa has hit the headlines. The SCO Foreign Ministers’ meeting is likely to...
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Don’t intervene
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New politics
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Clean up the mess
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Middle ground needed
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Jumping the gun
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Respect judiciary
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Pak’s peace bid
20 January 2023 | Pioneer
No cohesion
Telangana CM KC Rao organised an Opposition rally at Khammam but that’s not enough Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has a dream: to remove the Bharatiya Janata Party from the Centre. First, he went national—to begin with, in name—by renaming his Telangana Rashtra Samiti as Bharat Rashtra Samiti. Earlier, he...
Mundane & esoteric
Pilot takes potshots at his bête noire, CM Gehlot, this time over the paper leaks scam The truce between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his archrival Sachin Pilot seem to be evaporating, with the latter addressing rallies and even attacking his own party’s Government in the state. At a rally...
Nadda keeps his job
The BJP national executive was all about sounding the poll bugle and re-electing Nadda as party chief The main takeaway from the BJP’s two-day National Executive meeting in Delhi was the extension of the term of JP Nadda who would now be the party president till the next General elections to...
Disparities rising
Oxfam reports states the obvious – the gulf between the rich and poor is getting wider The gulf between the haves and have-nots have only widened in the country over the years and the pandemic made it worse. That is a general observation and now Oxfam report indicates the same. This...
Pressure works
China has withdrawn its shield for terrorist Makki and Pakistan has expressed desire to have dialogue Can the leopard change its spots? Or Pakistan cease to be a sponsor of jihadist terror? Or China as the backer of Pakistan? The answer to all the three questions is in the negative, for...
Castigating politics
The caste politics in Kerala shows no signs of waning, in fact, it is getting more pronounced A flippant statement by one of the caste leaders in Kerala has shocked the people in the State. G Sukumaran Nair, general secretary, Nair Service Society, declared the other day that Shashi Tharoor, the...
Dialogue needed
It would be better if Government and judiciary sort out the collegium issue without much fuss in public Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s letter to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, seeking Government representatives in the Supreme Court collegium, can yield good results. The Law Minister is right that this move will...
