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💥The Centre could add a few more changes to make Air India tempting for investors Nine months after the Union Cabinet’s in-principle nod for offloading the government’s stake in Air India, the ball has finally been set rolling to privatise the bleeding airline. A preliminary information memorandum was unveiled last week by the Civil Aviation Ministry for prospective bidders. According to this, the Centre will divest 76% of its stake in AI. A 100% stake is being offered in its subsidiary Air India Express, and a 50% stake is on offer in its ground handling operations arm. Other subsidiaries, such as Alliance Air, Hotel Corporation of India, which owns the Centaur properties in New Delhi and Srinagar, Air India Air Transport Services and Air India Engineering Services, are not being sold — they will be transferred to a special purpose entity along with roughly a third of AI’s ₹48,781 crore outstanding debt. Effectively, the government is offering a majority stake in AI and AI Expr

👉Egypt’s highly curated poll shows how far it has moved from the Arab Spring ideals Egypt’s election last week was democratic only in name. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former general who had ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, was never expected to struggle to secure a second term. Though the official result is yet to be announced, a landslide victory has been a certainty all along. Given the military backlash against the 2011 upsurge in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that ended Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade dictatorship, a genuinely popular exercise of the ballot was never on the cards. The vote was effectively rendered a one-horse race involving Mr. Sisi, as a number of opposition candidates were forced to withdraw from the contest. His lone challenger, a late entrant thrust forward to save the government from embarrassment, was someone who had declared himself a staunch supporter of the President’s bid for re-election. Public perception of the charade managed to fin

💥There must be some safeguards before a motion to impeach a judge is admitted in Parliament The euphoria in some circles over a proposed resolution of impeachment of the Chief Justice of India is a matter of grave concern, for it brings to fore issues that directly impinge on the independence of the judiciary. 👉Reason for discomfort Let the protagonists in the present drama be kept aside for the time being. The idea is not to comment on the bona fides, or the lack of them, in the proposed move. The problem is, when the political community (with all due respect to it) sets out to handle a matter pertaining to the judiciary, a sense of acute discomfort does descend. Two instances that immediately preceded the present one only reinforce the concerns: one concerning a judge from Gujarat for his observations in a judgment and the other from Andhra/Telangana where a communal twist was given to the case. The question then is, should there be some safeguards before th

💥Can the IPL afford to take the moral high ground in the ball tampering issue? Everything was going fine for Australian cricket until the third day of the third Test at Newlands in Cape Town, just before lunch. South Africa was going strong with over a hundred runs on the board for the loss of just one wicket. At that point, Australian captain Steve Smith and his men decided to cheat. The task of tampering with the ball for reverse swing was assigned to eight-Test-old Cameron Bancroft. The baggy green was tarnished as Smith, Bancroft, and vice-captain David Warner admitted their guilt publicly. While the International Cricket Council (ICC) slapped Smith with a one-Test match ban and fined him 100% of his match fee, Bancroft was let off relatively lightly with a fine of 75% of his match fee. Both players got the maximum punishment possible under the rules of the ICC, yet the cricket community at large was disappointed that a tougher line was not taken. Cricket Australia (CA),

💥Our likes, dislikes and opinions on social media leave us vulnerable to psychological warfare There has been a lot of talk around the globe over the use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica (CA), a company partly owned by the U.S. billionaire hedge fund owner and Donald Trump backer, Robert Mercer. In India, the discussion has descended into a farcical wrangle between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on who used the company’s services. For good measure, Union Law and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad even warned Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of “stringent action” including summoning him to India if it was found to be involved in the theft of data from Indians. All of this misses the real point. Data theft is not the issue. There is no need to steal the cornucopia of data that Facebook has accumulated on each one of us who uses the platform. It can be, and is, legally bought and used by marketers, businesses, researchers and

💥Why Pakistan should view itself as a ‘trading nation’ instead of a ‘warrior nation’ Pakistan is described around the world as ‘dangerous’, a ‘terrorist incubator’, and ‘the land of the intolerant’. Thus, according to Pakistan’s leading dissident, public intellectual and former diplomat Husain Haqqani, who lives in exile, “it is not difficult to understand the frustration of Pakistanis, both at home and in the diaspora, over the negative portrayal of their country.” In his new book, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State, Haqqani explains why an objective analysis cannot ignore some disconcerting facts about Pakistan’s 70-year history, including “four full-fledged wars, one alleged genocide, ... four direct military coups, ... numerous political assassinations, unremitting terrorism, continued external dependence and chronic social underdevelopment.” What then is the way forward? Haqqani offers suggestions for reconsidering Pakistan’s ideology, and