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Former chief minister Vijay Bahuguna’s son Saket Bahuguna and party joint secretary Anil Gupta were expelled for six years for “anti-party” activities.

Ugly politics in Uttarakhand: No participant left with clean hands

Apr 1, 2016 - 3:55 pm EDT The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

In the unfolding Uttarakhand drama all participants emerge diminished. It was a problem borne of rebellion in the Congress. Apparently, Chief Minister Harish Rawat, now facing horse-trading charges, had lost majority with nine MLAs parting ways […]

Sukhdev Thapar, Bhagat Singh and Shivram Rajguru

Nation salutes Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on their martyrdom day

Mar 26, 2016 - 6:05 pm EDT @theindpanorama 1

23rd March is the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev attained martyrdom. One example of the resoluteness of Bhagat Singh and his associates remains inspirational even today. In order to disgrace Bhagat Singh and his […]

The Frontrunners - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump

Reworking Ties with US

Mar 25, 2016 - 4:24 pm EDT The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

American presidential elections get international attention because of worldwide interest in who is going to become the most powerful leader on the international stage. The US presidential elections in 2012 were less exciting than usual, because […]

The Idea of Europe is Dead

Mar 25, 2016 - 4:19 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

Brussels Airport attacks by Jihadists again bring to life challenge faced by Europe as we know. Europe of Mozart and Goethe and Schopenhauer and Sartre and Beethoven is dead. The cultured European having his wine and […]

It’s Delhi’s call on Kashmir -take it or fail

Mar 25, 2016 - 4:06 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has chosen a familiar-yet-uncertain terrain to test the qualities of her own leadership and her capacity to take over the state of Jammu and Kashmir at a particularly worrisome time. […]

Terror Strikes Europe Again: After Paris, it is Brussels Now

Mar 25, 2016 - 4:03 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

At least 30 people are dead following a suicide attack at Zaventem airport and at a metro station in Brussels. Some experts are inclined to see the Tuesday morning blasts as Islamist terrorists’retaliation for the arrest […]

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (right) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Cultural Center Campus, Michigan

A Win for the Front-Runners

Mar 18, 2016 - 8:08 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner and Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner have won some crucial primary victories in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. Marco Rubio, a much-touted candidate by the Republican Party leaders and […]

"Since 1989, the citizenship application fee through the United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has spiked from $60 to $680 - an increase of 500 percent accounting for inflation", says New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Cutting the cost of Citizenship in the Immigration Capital of the World

Mar 18, 2016 - 8:04 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

For centuries, countless immigrants, including the 3.5 million that today call New York Citytheir home, have brought culture, ideas, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit to neighborhoods across the five boroughs, building communities and embedding themselves in […]

The Fight For $15

Mar 18, 2016 - 8:00 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

The benefits of a hike would go beyond those who receive it. For each dollar the minimum wage is increased, economists estimate it boosts consumer spending by $2,800 per affected household. A minimum wage hike can […]

Bharat Mata ki jai

Mar 18, 2016 - 7:55 pm EDT @theindpanorama 1

The rather intriguing debate over what it means to be nationalistic – or variably, a patriot – that started with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat declaring that all Indians are Hindus, and was given a far Left […]

Mr. Trump, blaming Islam amounts to barking at the wrong tree

Mar 11, 2016 - 2:00 pm EST Mike Ghouse 1

I want to assure Mr. Trump that Islam does not hate America, nor does Islam kill people, just as Guns don’t kill, but individuals do. Mr. Trump is seeking guidance when he says, “we have to get […]

No, Trump, Islam Doesn’t Hate America

Mar 11, 2016 - 1:50 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

Donald Trump told CNN that Islam hates America. Like the Muslims who fight and die for, and otherwise serve, this country? Outrageous. Donald Trump’s interview to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Wednesday, March 9 has invited sharp reactions. […]

Cruz, Rubio and Trump are the three most dangerous men whom America has ever given birth to, and they are set to ruin the American economy and the American way of life

Three most dangerous Presidents in America on Day one

Mar 11, 2016 - 1:30 pm EST Mike Ghouse 1

On Day #1, they want to repeal Obama care. Forget their hatred for the President, but look at their political meanness to deprive 22 Million Americans of their health insurance. Many of those Americans may be […]

India's Parliament building . All is not well within

Positions harden: Opposition, government spar as Bills await action

Mar 11, 2016 - 1:28 pm EST @theindpanorama 1

After the Opposition amendment to the motion of thanks to the President’s Address and the Prime Minister’s speech in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, hopes of Congress-BJP patch-up for passing crucial Bills pending in Parliament have […]

Pakistan’s Hand in the Rise of International Jihad

Mar 5, 2016 - 10:06 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Resident Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan and the Taliban produce results in the next few months, his country may not survive 2016. Afghanistan is barely standing, […]

Modi ji, talk about Hitler and Mussolini also- Kanhaiya Kumar in speech at JNU

A star is born | Kanhaiya Kumar loads the rhetorical dice

Mar 5, 2016 - 10:01 am EST @theindpanorama 0

New information technology has become a great leveler. Just as it allows the jihadis to have their violent message registered across national boundaries, it also enables an Anna Hazare to hobble down political establishment. The […]

Trump and Baghdadi

Mar 5, 2016 - 9:27 am EST @theindpanorama 0

How does the leading Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, square off with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the helm of the so-called Islamic State group? For many, shoving the two names in the […]

As we approach Super Tuesday, why most Indian Americans are saying ‘Hillary Clinton Zindabad’

Feb 29, 2016 - 3:52 pm EST @theindpanorama 0

In my discussions with several fellow Indian Americans, I have heard a common theme when I inquired why they are supporting Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders and why they will support her in November over […]

Kanhaiya Kumar was beaten by the mob and the police did not bother to protect him from the attack.

Why Delhi Police is going soft on Kashmiris who actually raised anti-India slogans in JNU

Feb 26, 2016 - 10:35 am EST @theindpanorama 0

From the very beginning, it has been amply clear that the people who raised anti-India slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on 9 February were Kashmiris. Yet, the Delhi Police has not even been looking for […]

Sedition Arrests in India Inflame Old Free-Speech Tensions

Feb 26, 2016 - 10:29 am EST @theindpanorama 1

Over the years, the thousand-acre campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University has seen too many protests by its leftist student body to count, most of them petering out without incident. But one staged this month seems to have […]

Prabhu’s gamble | Borrowing money to fund dreams

Feb 26, 2016 - 10:16 am EST @theindpanorama 0

The bleak state of the economy has cast a shadow on the railways as well. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s presentation of window-dressed accounts barely hid the fact that the railways would have reported a loss had […]

US ELECTION 2016 | The $5 billion Business

Feb 19, 2016 - 11:18 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

The campaign begins virtually the moment the last vote has been cast in the previous Congressional mid-term elections – and even before that an aspiring candidate may be quietly putting the bones of a campaign together, […]

Exodus from Punjab

Feb 19, 2016 - 11:07 am EST Karan Beri 1

First, let us mourn the death of ‘Sonney di Chidi’ (golden bird) that Punjab once was. It was a prosperous state with abundance in resources. Even more promising was the leadership of those times (somewhat upto […]

A group of irate lawyers at Patiala House Court. Their violent conduct is a matter of investigation

JNU Row: When dissent becomes sedition?

Feb 19, 2016 - 11:00 am EST @theindpanorama 1

What is the issue at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi? A radical left-wing student group as vocal and abusive as RSS/Parivar organized a function to discuss the ‘judicial murder of’ of Afzal Guru as […]

A grave provocation: Chinese missiles to increase tensions in South China Sea

Feb 19, 2016 - 10:54 am EST Agencies | Media Reports 0

Beijing’s reported deployment of surface-to-air missile bound to be introspected as launchers on an island in the South China Sea recently photographed by a commercial satellite is an act of grave provocation. It is clearly in […]