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Supporters of JanaSena Party chief and actor Pawan Kalyan raised slogans outside Andhra Pradesh’s Vishakhapatnam Airport on Saturday, as he arrived in the city. They briefly protested against YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders Roja and Jogi Ramesh, and TTD Chairman YV Subba Reddy. They spoke up against the proposal of three capitals for Andhra Pradesh, […]

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Nihar Thackeray, the grandson of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray, has said that he supports the Eknath Shinde faction of the party and is ready to campaign for the upcoming Andheri East Assembly byelection as well as the Mumbai civic body polls. He also did not rule out joining electoral politics. The BJP, supported […]

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At the opening of a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping said that China has achieved comprehensive control over Hong Kong, turning it from chaos to governance, while condemning what he said was interference in Taiwan. Xi Jinping walked onstage to thunderous applause from nearly 2,300 delegates who have gathered at Beijing’s […]

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Shashi Tharoor, who is running for Congress President, has clarified on his recent comments that some people in the party were assuming that there’s an official candidate. It was seen as alluding to Mallikarjun Kharge, the other candidate in the Congress President election, which is being closely watched by party insiders as well as the […]

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By Sushil Kutty The day after the Supreme Court’s split verdict on the hijab, things are falling into place for a better understanding of the verdict. One, it has become clear that after failing with the essential religious practice (erp) as the raison d’etre for the ‘hijab’ in classrooms demand, advocates for the hijab petitioners […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik What is called OPEC+ that is the13 members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) together with 11 other petroleum exporting countries led by Russia, decided on October 5 to cut their oil production by 2 million barrels per day, starting from November. The US had been pressing OPEC not to […]

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By James M Dorsey Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s only Muslim mass movement propagating a genuinely moderate and pluralistic form of Islam, has forged an unlikely, albeit temporary, alliance with the Saudi-controlled Muslim World League. The League is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s chief propagator of a socially less restrictive but autocratic interpretation of […]

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Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who is reportedly being backed by the Gandhi family in the party presidential poll race against Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, on Saturday was seen walking with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka. It is for the first time that Kharge participated in the Bharat Jodo Yatra which is […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday declared that he will not realign with the BJP as long as he is alive, accusing the former ally of using investigating agencies for targeting political opponents like RJD president Lalu Prasad. Addressing a function in this north Bihar district, where he inaugurated a government engineering college, Kumar […]

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By Branko Marcetic If you’re going to undermine your own public rhetoric and supposed values by cozying up to a brutal autocrat, you might as well get something out of it. While maybe an obvious point to the rest of us, it’s apparently something US officials are just now belatedly realizing about the US-Saudi relationship. […]

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The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court’s order acquitting former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and five others in alleged Maoist links case. In a special sitting of the court held to consider a plea against the acquittal, the Supreme Court said that the offences involved are very serious in nature […]

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India has slipped to the 107th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022 of 121 countries, from its 2021 position of 101st and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Seventeen countries, including China, Turkey, and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI score of less than five, the website of the Global […]

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A Muslim man has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody under the recently promulgated Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act, for ‘converting a woman under the pretext of marrying her.’ According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Bengaluru North Division, Vinayak Patil, the case was registered against Syed Mueen on […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins on October 16 in Beijing. It will chart out the course of action for the next five years in terms of Chinese domestic politics, economy and also foreign policy, with the objective of catapulting the world’s largest populated country with the second […]

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By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Trade numbers for the fiscal 2022-2023 are looking dismal. The expectation is that for the Q1 and Q2 Fiscal 2022-2023, the Current Account Deficit (CAD) is expected to be the highest in 9 years. A quick search on items using the harmonized system (HS) at a 2-digit level reveals that there […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Targeting the 2024 parliamentary elections, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asserted that his party’s success in winning the support of women, farmers and marginalised groups with various welfare schemes, can be replicated at the national level. KCR has projected himself as a pro-farmer leader by financially helping the kin […]

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By Eileen Jones It’s good to discover, in reading the tributes to Angela Lansbury — who died on October 11 at age ninety-six — that the beloved actor reportedly considered herself “a proud socialist.” She was a comrade via her illustrious lineage: her father was Edgar Lansbury, the British socialist politician, and her grandfather was […]

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With little more than a month left for the Himachal Pradesh polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress seem to be in a quandary over finalisation of candidates with both parties waiting for each other to come out with their final list. With the high-stakes battle, both the parties fear crossover of many leaders […]

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