The Karnataka lectoral results are the “beginning of the end” for BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Saturday. Banerjee also asserted the moral of the Karnataka assembly poll results is that people “want plurality” and that “no central design to dominate” can repress them. Adding for good measure, she said that the […]
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By Harihar Swarup Congress has romped home in Karnataka convincingly ousting the BJP in the state assembly elections held on May 10. This means there will be no presence of BJP in south India in any state government and it will remain only a North Indian party. If this trend continues, the Congress may do […]
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Sachin Pilot’s ‘Jan Sangharsh Yatra’ is a “personal” one and the party “is keeping an eye on” it, Congress’ Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said on Friday. He said a discussion on all issues would be held when Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge returns from Karnataka. Randhawa made the remarks after a meeting with state unit […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra Only after the declaration of results in Karnataka assembly polls, opposition unity is expected to acquire a definitive shape. The chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, has been working hard and moving across the country to meet the opposition leaders of various states to bring them at one platform against the […]
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Rajasthan BJP president CP Joshi hit back at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for calling the BJP and the RSS “fascist”, saying the Congress leader has an “RSS phobia” and that is why he makes such statements. He said whenever there is any calamity, RSS workers are ready to help. “The Congress has a phobia of […]
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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The sudden arrest of Imran Khan by Pakistan military has come as the final straw for the people who were at the receiving end of fundamentalism, terrorism, and a collapsing economy. Thousands of irate mob vandalized public properties and expressed their frustration against the country’s ruling elite, including the defence forces. […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The unanimous verdict delivered on May 11 by a five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India on power struggle in Delhi between the elected government of the National Capital Territory and the Centre’s steps of usurping the powers of the state is significant for the country, since Modi government […]
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By Prakash Karat The state of press freedom in India has been accurately captured by the World Press Freedom Index. This year’s index was issued on May 3, which is observed as World Press Freedom Day. The Reporters without Borders (RSF), which has prepared the World Press Freedom Index has placed India in the 161st […]
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By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court Thursday refused to rule Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde out of his job because it was snatched from Uddhav Thackeray who should have faced the floor test and not fled the scene. The top court’s refusal was disappointing because everything else the court said prior to expressing helplessness gave […]
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By James M Dorsey America to the rescue. In a twist of irony, that may be Central Asia’s only alternative, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine upsetting the region’s security apple cart. The question is whether the United States, already rejiggering its commitment to security in the Middle East, has the will and wherewithal to […]
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The trouble in Rajasthan Congress bodes ill for the party’s prospects in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as any hope of a truce between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. The mess makes the top leadership look confused and helpless. And that is definitely not a good sign. Just two days after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok […]
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By Kalyani Shankar Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar surprised friends and foes alike with his sudden decision to give up the presidency of his Party recently, only to withdraw it after three days. It ultimately became a storm in a teacup. Had Pawar stuck to his decision, it could have considerably weakened his Party, […]
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By Arun Srivastava Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh shirking of his moral accountability to resolve the differences between the two communities Meities and Kukis, and instead blaming the “prevailing misunderstandings between two sections of society” on the issue of inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category has been primarily […]
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By Tirthankar Mitra Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee’s recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year’s Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk by many among his party faithful; […]
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In a significant development in the political circles of Tamil Nadu, expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam (OPS) on Monday met with Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam chief TTV Dhinakaran at the latter’s residence in Chennai and announced to join hands to “retrieve” the Edappadi K Palaniswami-led AIADMK and put up a political fight against their common […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 May 2023 – The University of Hong Kong (HKU) triumphed at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, winning a total of 19 awards, including two special grand prizes Invention & Innovation CAI Award (China Delegation), and Prize of the Delegation of Malaysia. The results were announced on April 28. Research teams from Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of […]
By Arun Srivastava Veteran of many electoral battles, Narendra Modi, has been forced to adopt a defensive strategy in the face of critical ethical attack from Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. It may look like an incredulous argument, but the bare fact is it was in riposte to the aggressive attack from Priyanka at her […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty The Labour Party in Britain made massive gains in the country wide local bodies elections this week vindicating the opinion polls that the Labour under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer is set to form the next Government after the national elections scheduled in 2024 or early 2025. The Conservative Party has […]
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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: All attempts of national and Madhya Pradesh leaders to persuade Deepak Joshi not to leave BJP failed. He finally joined the Congress on Saturday in the presence of PCC president Kamal Nath. He accepted the Congress membership along with large number of his followers. While announcing his decision to leave […]
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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The last time Karnataka went to the polls in 2018, the keenly-fought election had given a fractured mandate, with BJP winning 104 seats in a 224-member Assembly. However, the BJP could not get the magic number of 113 and remained out of power despite all the manoeuvring it claimed it did […]
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By Prabir Purkayastha MAY 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the role of news organisations is to speak truth to power. Not to manufacture consent – to use Chomsky’s famous words – for the government and the ruling classes. While doing that, I want to remember two men who exemplify the need […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra The most unexpected development in the political scenario was Sharad Pawar’s resignation as NCP chief and this has not only surprised his party but also his Maharashtra allies Uddhav Thackeray and Congress. After the dramatic show of distress from partymen, Sharad Pawar agreed to once rethink over his decision. Election of […]
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By Arun Srivastava Cruel joke is being played with the women wrestlers who enhanced the prestige of India in global fraternity by winning medals in international championships. In the evening of May 3 while addressing the election rally in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he was a celebrant of the Nari Shakti (women’s’ […]
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By Eric A. Gordon In director Stephen Williams’s big-budget new film Chevalier, now playing in US theatres Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison), the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the lucrative French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, rises to improbable heights in Parisian society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer. After […]
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