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A G Noorani
A.G. Noorani | America sinking to a new low in crass diplomacy
One had thought that President Joe Biden would break with his predecessor Donald Trump’s crudeness
06 Apr 2021 7:39 AM
A.G. Noorani | India in Nato? Is New Delhi ready for such a major shift?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, headquartered in Brussels, has long been in a reflective mood regarding its own fatuous irrelevance
31 Mar 2021 7:42 AM
The RSS is not amused with Modi’s cult of personality
The RSS was not amused to see Modi build a cult of personality from the very outset. But it shrewdly assessed both cost and benefit.
01 Mar 2020 4:27 AM
A ruling that allows protest, teaches the BJP a lesson
The court noted that one of the clauses of the order prevented raising slogans, singing and beating drums.
23 Feb 2020 12:25 AM
When diplomats bend to the will of host nations
The American Foreign Service has produced some highly distinguished figures.
16 Feb 2020 5:01 AM
The Modi govt wants to change how politics in Kashmir works
What Prime Minister Narendra Modi did on August 5, 2019, went far beyond the abrogation of Article 370.
09 Feb 2020 4:56 AM
Arif was made Kerala gov just to spite Pinarayi govt
It is an exact replica of Article 78 which defines the Prime Minister’s duties towards the President.
03 Feb 2020 12:16 AM
Police excesses need to be checked
The people’s tribunal was set up in Delhi to expose the trend of excesses that swept the Indian capital and western Uttar Pradesh.
26 Jan 2020 2:26 AM
India a split polity, but is still secular
Vajpayee served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2004 when the Congress came to power with Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister.
20 Jan 2020 1:44 AM
How British-era bonds have been used to stifle political dissent
Jinnah fought ferociously for Tilak, not sparing the English prosecutor Bimming.
13 Jan 2020 12:24 AM
Kerala has the right to express its view on CAA
State Assemblies are elected by the people and they are within their rights to express their opinion on matters of national concern.
05 Jan 2020 3:01 AM
CAA protests: Students were not armed, the police were
The court was informed that injured students were not being given medical aid.
29 Dec 2019 12:01 AM
The designs of RSS contradict Shimla Pact
The agreement suited both sides admirably. It was the product of an understanding between the two leaders at the pinnacle of power.
22 Dec 2019 12:10 AM
Presidential system poses a danger to democracy itself
Its members have to be members of the legislature and can be thrown out of office by a vote of no-confidence.
16 Dec 2019 12:05 AM
India needs laws to protect press from govt
Four police officers entered its offices to search for photographs of a clash between the police and demonstrators at the university hospitals.
08 Dec 2019 7:08 AM
Maharashtra shows Modi will bite dust if Oppn unites
As a senior NCP leader, Pawar was entrusted — most unwisely — with a paper containing the signatures of all NCP MLAs.
01 Dec 2019 7:07 AM
Who is to judge the misuse of parliamentary privilege?
It recast the Indian polity radically and gave her wide powers to ban political parties.
25 Nov 2019 12:01 AM
Babri verdict based on faith, not evidence
There now comes the Supreme Court’s strange verdict strangely expressed with a stooge addendum which belies its unanimity.
17 Nov 2019 12:07 AM
Habeas corpus is habeas carcass in Kashmir Valley
The time is come to consider the basics of the legal outrage of imprisonment without trial called ‘preventive detention’.
11 Nov 2019 12:27 AM
Bias in judges hurts public confidence in the judiciary
The law and practice on a judge’s recusal merits separate discussion.
03 Nov 2019 12:38 AM
Columns
Was planning an eight-phase poll spread over a month, and during a pandemic too boot, wrong, after all?
India’s urban unemployment is at a historic high and, more important, the participation rate of India’s labour force is at a historic low
The last time the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, 26 years ago, India’s historical presence in Afghanistan was forced to abruptly end
Politicians are voted in and voted out for a variety of reasons, but rarely have they been voted out for incompetence