Election 2024: The Big Fights In Kerala

Kerala's election discourse operates surreptitiously.Its explicit face focuses on important national and local issues. At the same time, it seeks to secure apt communal equations to ensure votes,......

Why are women overlooked by Kerala's ruling, Oppn fronts during polls?

When the historic "Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam" was passed in Parliament last year, jubilant women politicians, cutting across parties, broke into celebration distributing sweets and exuding......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

'Taking Panditji's photos is the most unforgettable memory'

'When I realised that I was to take the pictures of Pandit Nehru, I was very nervous and scared.' IMAGE: Then prime minister Indira Gandhi flanked by then Congress chief minister K Karunakaran,......

Biggest bank frauds in the past 11 years

Of the total 53,334 cases of frauds reported during 2008-09 and 2018-19 fiscal years, involving a whopping Rs 2.05 lakh crore, ICICI Bank's 6,811 cases were the highest. Illustration: Dominic......

Left, Cong MPs oppose merger of associate banks with SBI

'SBT's merger with SBI could lead to closure of several branches and hurt employment opportunities.' The Left and Congress members on Tuesday opposed the merger of five associate banks with......

All is not right for the economy of India

  The National Democratic Alliance govt has not been able to bring black money from abroad as it had promised before the 2014 general elections, rues Saugata Roy Before I go into the......

Left unions' nationwide strike hits normal life

Claiming that Thursday's general was a near total success in left-ruled West Bengal, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) declared that the agitation would not send any wrong message to prospective......