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The BJP-PDP alliance failed not because it was unworkable, but because the big brother lacked conviction. An alliance of antagonists in the national interest was an audacious idea. But only if the BJP had the audacity to make it work. Everybody is the loser and Kashmir is back to the perilous 1990s.
ICICI Bank board has let down its shareholders
The image and the balance sheet of ICICI Bank shows its board has let it down with pusillanimous waffling on its CEO’s alleged conflicts of interest. Nobody’s guilty without a fair probe. But this should have been completed promptly, not allowed to fester. ICICI deserves a shareholders’ revolt and a new board.
Modi government puts Kashmir front and centre
The BJP’s decision to pull out of the alliance government in Jammu & Kashmir is a risky gamble. The Modi government will get full control of the state if Governor’s Rule is imposed. That will allow a more muscular policy in the Valley but will also shrink space for politics.
India-Pak-China trilateral proposal is massive overreach by Beijing
The Chinese ambassador’s proposal to host an India-Pakistan-China trilateral was rightly spiked by the MEA before it could get legs. The Chinese should know better after the Modi-Xi talks in Wuhan and Qingdao. Wanting to be a world power must be accompanied by an understanding of Indian sensitivities.
BJP leaders need to open their eyes to China’s economic might
BJP leaders embarrass India with the ludicrous claim that we’ve grown faster than China in one quarter. China is 5x our GDP. Even at 2 per cent growth it produces more wealth. China fights Trump on $50 billion duties, India for $250 million. So deep breath, stop boasting. There’s work to do.
Airtel fails the human network test
India’s largest telecom company, Airtel, has acted disgracefully in seeming to accept a customer’s demand to be serviced by a Hindu employee instead of Muslim. Doubly the shame when we mourn patriot Aurangzeb who died protecting his officer, who didn’t see the need to insist on a Hindu “buddy” instead.
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist, Barnala(Punjab)
Modi government puts Kashmir …….,.
~The decision neither risky nor a gamble ! Modi government never took this issue seriously
but preferred to grind its own axe by playing and promoting politics going in for a marriage
of political convenience with PDP !
Now just the timing of this decision ? To hide and cover up its failure in J&K BJP will now
otherwise make a bid to reap the political mileage by blaming its alliance partner PDP in
the run up to the Marathon-May,2019 Lok Sabha Polls. For PM Modi winning polls is of
paramount importance than anything else ! This development is a part and parcel of yet
another strategy to outsmart the opposition in ensuing Lok Sabha Polls !
India-Pak-China trilateral……..
~ Timely and smartly discarded the propsal ! Right stance and reply !