On August 4, the Union Cabinet approved yet another modification to the National Pension System (NPS), the scheme applicable to 23 lakh Central government employees who joined service on January 1, 2004, or later. The NPS, which was earlier called the New Pension Scheme as it replaced the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), has also been […]
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar in Bengaluru in August 2024. After the Congress won the State Assembly election in May 2023 with a comfortable majority, there was a vague understanding that Shivakumar would be appointed as Chief Minister sometime in the future. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives On September […]
Narendra Modi is not the kind of figure who will quietly sail into the sunset. On September 17, he turned 74, giving him one more year before the informal retirement age he himself set for members of the BJP. During the course of the Lok Sabha election earlier this year, it was passionately reiterated that […]
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary and former Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury passed away in a Delhi hospital on September 12 after battling a severe respiratory infection. He was 72. People from across the political spectrum mourned his passing, recalling his commitment to the working class, the Constitution, and social justice and equality. […]
Bob Casey’s Senate campaign in Pennsylvania says it won’t renew an ad that drew a complaint from the widow of a U.S.-based journalist who was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The campaign said in a statement Friday that it sympathizes with the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, but didn’t plan to immediately […]
Trouble from allies seems to be mounting for the BJP, especially from its partners in Bihar, where the Assembly election is due next year. While K.C. Tyagi of the Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) suddenly resigned from the key role of party chief spokesperson on September 1, days after he made statements distancing the JD(U) […]
A fundamental difference between venom and poison is how toxins enter the victim’s body. As a venom evolution expert describes it, “If you bite it and you die it’s poison, but if it bites you and you die, that’s venom.” The telltale sign of venom is that it is introduced via a wound. In much the […]
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury addresses a foundation stone laying ceremony of the building of Jyoti Basu Centre For Social Studies and Research, at Kolkata, January 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI On this page, readers will find a remarkable collection of interviews with Sitaram Yechury (1952-2024), conducted by Frontline over the span of several decades. These conversations […]
Rahul Gandhi listens to children during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Makthal in Telangana’s Narayanpet district on October 27, 2022. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL For dialogue, first ask, then… listen. From Proverbs and Songs by Spanish poet Antonio Machado In a conversation at Texas University, Dallas, on September 9, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi touched […]
For most of its existence, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have shared a similar defining feature: their steadfast alignment with pro-India politics in Jammu and Kashmir. Despite varying levels of influence and power over the years, the NC and PDP leaderships have faced local resentment and separatist anger […]
