The tussle between Tamil Nadu’s ruling party DMK and Governor RN Ravi escalated on Tuesday after the governor’s remarks suggesting ‘Tamizhagam’ is an appropriate name for ‘Tamil Nadu’ and his omission of certain parts of his speech in the state Assembly on Monday became flashpoints. A DMK delegation is likely to meet the President in […]
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By Arun Srivastava After a fortnight, the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi would culminate with the national flag hoisting in Srinagar. But this finish would be purely an allegory. The real political Yatra (journey) of Rahul will begin after this stage. The political analyst, scribes, intellectuals, fellows of RSS and Narendra Modi’s think […]
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By Sushil Kutty It’s Kurukshetra. And Mahabharata. Bharat Jodo yatri Rahul Gandhi alleges the RSS are “21st Century Kauravas in khaki half pants”. And RSS Chief Mohan Mohan Bhagwat says Hindus are not finished with the “1000-year war with foreign invaders, foreign aggressions, foreign influences and foreign conspiracies.” The 21st century war is political, with […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty The storming of the Congress building and the Presidential Palace in Brazil by the far right supporters of the defeated president Jair Bolsonaro on January 8 is a wakeup call to the progressives of Latin America to unite for fighting the right offensive which has been launched in the countries that have […]
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By Ashis Biswas With most major parties adopting an ethnicity-based approach in their pre-poll campaigning, voting in the coming Assembly elections in Meghalaya could be sharply polarised, according to observers. Intriguingly, such a trend may be less noticeable in Tripura. The involvement of Assam-based political heavyweight leaders with elections in neighbouring Meghalaya, which used to […]
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By Dr. Arun Mitra It is to utter to dismay that only about 23.8 % families of the doctors who lost their life fighting COVID-19 have received the insurance amount announced by the Prime Minister under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). This is as per the information received by Dr Babu K V, […]
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a veiled attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and dubbed them as “21st century Kauravas”. Addressing a street-corner meeting after the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by him reached Ambala district Monday evening, Mr Gandhi said Haryana is the land of the Mahabharata and went on to take […]
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By Sankar Ray Pakistan – Islamabad camaraderie, built up after the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban and formation of a new Emirate in Kabul on 15 August 2021, faces a sanguinary breach. A conflictual discontent was simmering ever since the federal government had struck a ceasefire with the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan during the regime […]
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By James M Dorsey An official visit to Xinjiang to assess the fate of Turkic Muslims in the troubled north-western Chinese Province is a risky proposition by any definition. Even so, it would be worth the risk if China and Turkey could agree on the terms of a visit. The problem is that the terms […]
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The next Mayor of Delhi will be chosen today amid an escalation of a tussle between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. The BJP, which lost the civic polls after three terms in power, has claimed that they will win the post. AAP has fielded Shelly Oberoi for the top post […]
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By Krishna Jha In 1947, when we attained freedom, our dream was to build a country for ourselves without any inequality. There was to be fundamental rights ensured in the Constitution. Directive principles of the state policy in the Constitution promised us all that only a socialist democracy offers. Our preamble says that we, the […]
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By K Raveendran The government has been shifting the goal posts of demonetization from black money elimination to greater tax realization and finally digitization to suit its arguments from time to time for justifying the mindless decision, whose parentage is being disowned by every party involved. Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had at one stage […]
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 3 January 2023 – Global c-pop star Tia Lee Yu Fen announced earlier that Hong Kong women’s charity Teen’s Key will be the first beneficiary of her global #EmpowerHer philanthropic campaign. Tia Lee‘s “Goodbye Princess” music video release was tremendously successful, garnering a record-breaking 100 million views in just 19 days after its global premiere. The song and its theme of […]
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 3 January 2023 – Global c-pop star Tia Lee Yu Fen recently released her “Goodbye Princess” music video – and broke records with 100 million views on YouTube in just 19 days. Tia has chosen Teen’s Key in Hong Kong as the first charity to benefit from her global #EmpowerHer campaign. Teen’s Key Hong Kong will be the first of many organisations […]
By Kalyani Shankar Congress would like to rebrand Rahul Gandhi as a young, caring, and ideological leader before the 2024 polls. Has Rahul shown a new image after the Bharat Jodo yatra, completed over 100 days as intended? For the first time after many years, the grand old party is trying to reach out to […]
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By Arun Srivastava With the RSS hastening up the process of fattening its Hindu rank by inducting the tribals, the alarm bell for complete dissipation of their identity has started ringing for the adivasis and they are ready to assert their independent distinctiveness by confronting the RSS pracharaks. Discontent prevailing amongst the tribals against the […]
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After top court’s big verdict on Centre’s 2016 note ban move, former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the majority verdict by the Supreme Court has steered clear of the question whether the objectives of the demonetisation exercise were achieved at all. The ’minority’ judgement pointed out the ’illegality’ and the ’irregularities’ in […]
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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has by a 4-1 majority ruled that the demonetisation decision by the Modi government was technically valid, but apart from the concerns raised in the dissenting voice recorded by Justice Nagarathna, the verdict has failed to acknowledge the huge human cost of the draconian decision. After declaring during […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office SundayJanuary1for a third term as Brazil’s president, in a ceremony marked by the absence of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro and violent demonstrations by far right supporters in different parts of the country. The 77-year-old ex-metalworker, who previously led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, took […]
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By Gyan Pathak Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh were two legislative assemblies that were to expire on February 18 and January 1, 2023 respectively, the elections for which were held in November and December. BJP swept Gujarat but lost Himachal Pradesh, and thus the party begins the year 2023 with its political manoeuvring capability bruised […]
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By Tirthankar Mitra India will witness a slew of elections in 2023 together with the answer to the so far unanswered question whether Rahul Gandhi can rediscover leadership initiative in search of which he has failed and faltered in the last eight years of Narendra Modi’s rule For 2023 is dotted with elections which inarguably […]
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he was called “the father of the nation” and asked what has the “new father” done for India. “New father of new nation, but what have you done for the nation? Has anything significant be done? How has India progressed? The only […]
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Deaths attributed to Covid in China have increased to 9,000 people per day, according to a data firm, reported news.com.au, an Australia-based publication. The news.com.au report also says, “British-based research firm Airfinity has doubled the number of people it estimates are dying from Covid in China as the number of infections soar. It comes after Beijing lifted […]
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By Arun Srivastava Sons of the illustrious fathers are often evaluated into the backdrop of the long-drawn-out shadows of their dads. This is the common perception. The people expect same nature and dimension of performance as what their fathers have achieved. While indulging in this nature of appraisal they tend to conveniently forget that two […]
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