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By K Raveendran The ‘Z’ marking seen on Russian battle tanks and other military equipment as a coding for the Ukraine invasion is fast acquiring an evil meaning, similar to the evil that the Nazi symbol of Swastika denotes. In India, Swastika connotes exactly the opposite, as the Hindu symbol of auspiciousness. But for most […]

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US President Joe Biden on Friday vowed that Russia would pay a “severe price” if it used chemical weapons in Ukraine, while also pledging to avoid provoking Moscow into “World War III.” Biden reacted after Russia accused Ukraine and the United States of developing biological and chemical weapons — in what Western nations says is […]

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  In her first public address after almost getting wiped out in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today blamed the media and Samajwadi Party (SP) for the party’s loss. While trying to lift the spirit of party workers, she blamed the media and political rival SP for misleading those […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Extensive campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh countered the anti-incumbency against Yogi government which is evident from substantial fall in seats in 2022 polls as against 2017 elections. There is a feeling in BJP rank and file that had Modi not campaigned the way he did it would […]

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By Sushil Kutty There is “gehri manthan” going on as to what led to the Samajwadi Party loss even after all the signs on the ground pointed to a Bharatiya Janata Party debacle? More important, why did an entire tribe of political analysts fail in their “reading” of the situation unfolding? There is genuine consternation. […]

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By Prakash Karat The US-led NATO’s attempts to seek the high moral ground against aggression by the “brutal dictator Putin” reeks of hypocrisy and double-standards. Going by the shrill pronouncements of President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson, this is the first time peace has been shattered in Europe after the Second World War and the […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of the assembly elections in five states will not boost the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. The Party can not hope for any inroads in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The reasons are clear: Kerala is not Uttar Pradesh. The Hindutva politics, which the BJP has successfully […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Independent journalism – the kind that favours public interest over political, commercial, or factional agenda – is in peril, due to erosion of business models, increasing crackdowns on press freedom, and ongoing threats against the safety of journalists. The coming decade, therefore, will be decisive for the survival of a democratic […]

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“The struggle in public interest would continue,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted. A day after the BJP’s record victory in Uttar Pradesh, prime challenger Samajwadi Party’s chief Akhilesh Yadav thanked voters for their support and said they had shown that the BJP’s seat count can be decreased. Taking to Twitter this morning, Mr Yadav said he was […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the assembly elections to the five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – have shown that the Grand Old Party the Congress is on the decline. The Party has not only lost its ruling state Punjab miserably to the Aam Admi Party (AAP) but also done […]

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By Harihar Swarup Election results to five state assemblies have exhibited many firsts. For the first time the Aam Admi Party sprang a surprised when it romped home with a majority in Punjab, leaving far behind the Congress, Akali Dal and other parties. This is also for the first time that APP has stepped out […]

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By Sushil Kutty A trait common to all politicians, even the bright young ones, is a penchant for sycophancy. So, when AAP swept its one-state wonder tag out the Delhi window and took Punjab by the “vacuum cleaner”, Delhi AAP leader Raghav Chadha, who ran AAP’s Punjab poll campaign, couldn’t stop himself from blurting out, […]

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By Sankar Ray The no-confidence motion, tabled against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led federal government and okayed for debate and voting by the Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan, Asad Qaiser, has unnerved and enraged the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi. In a speech at a gathering of the PTI lawmakers of Sindh in Karachi, he targeted […]

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Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lost the election today in an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sweep that left the Congress far behind and crushed heavyweight leaders across parties. Amarinder Singh lost in his Patiala Urban constituency to AAP’s Ajit Pal Singh Kohli. The 79-year-old, in a tweet, accepted defeat, saying “Democracy has triumphed”. He […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even two years after the pandemic and support in its response to enable people survive, millions of families across the world still “cannot afford food or essential healthcare services” since they have been pushed deeper into poverty, says a new joint report by UNICEF and the World Bank while urging the […]

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As counting progresses in the assembly elections round, in which five states, including the most prestigious Uttar Pradesh, are involved, the BJP seems set for an emphatic victory. As latest trends indicate, Yogi Adityanath looks set to stay in power with a solid repeat mandate, while the party has nearly made it to power in […]

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