P Sudhir

By P Sudhir If President Biden’s visit to Tel Aviv for a day demonstrated anything, it is the unremitting and blind support for the Israeli settler-colonial State.  The visit underlined what has been the unchanging reality since 1948 – the United States has nurtured and cultivated Israel as its outpost in West Asia.  The United […]

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  By P Sudhir   The Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, has virtually declared that a new front is being opened up in the temple-mosque issue.  This time, it is the Gyanvapi mosque and the Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. Adityanath, in an interview, has said that there is sufficient proof in the Gyanvapi complex […]

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By P Sudhir   The events in Manipur, which dominated the national political situation over the past nearly three months, have brought out a startling feature of governance under Narendra Modi. The authoritarian regime is accountable to no one. Manipur has been in the grip of ethnic violence resulting in the deaths of over 150 […]

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By P Sudhir After seven days of disruption of parliamentary proceedings, the government is now planning to cut short the second half of the budget session by guillotining the demands for grants and passing the finance bill without any discussion. The peculiarity of this decision stems from the fact that it is the ruling party […]

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By P. Sudhir Elections to half the seats in the Lok Sabha have been completed with the third phase of polling being over on May 7. This has provided enough experience and time to assess how the Election Commission (EC) has gone about superintending the conduct of a free and fair poll. The verdict in […]

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Several former MLAs of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly are expected to join the BJP and contest the upcoming bypolls on its ticket, sources told Press Trust of India today, as the political crisis plaguing the state continues to rumble. Six rebel Congress MLAs – Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Rajinder Rana, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Chetanya Sharma […]

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By P. Sudhir Three developments in one week – one positive and the other two, negative. The first was the Supreme Court order directing the State Bank of India to submit to the Election Commission by March 12 the details of electoral bonds for the Election Commission to put up on their website by March […]

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Six Congress MLAs from Himachal Pradesh who cross-voted for the BJP in the Rajya Sabha election has been disqualified from the assembly, the Speaker announced today. The BJP had clapped for and congratulated the six MLAs for their ‘bravery’ yesterday when they came to the assembly, after staying the previous night in BJP-ruled Haryana. Their […]

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Amidst the political conundrum in Himachal Pradesh since Tuesday, after six Congress MLAs voted in favour of the BJP candidate in the Rajya Sabha polls, Congress sources say the grand old party has sought disqualification of the six rebel MLAs. Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu reached Hotel Sisil and is currently in “constant touch with […]

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By P. Sudhir The Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, the entire cabinet and all the MLAs and MPs of the Left Democratic Front sat in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on February 8. The sit-in was to highlight the central government’s discriminatory attitude to Kerala and the hostile actions of the centre to […]

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Industry leaders and leading tax consultants have expressed surprise over non-extension of the sunset date of the concessional tax rate of 15% on new manufacturing units beyond March 31, 2024 in the interim Budget, as this may discourage fresh private investments, say experts. “Considering the continuing need to incentivise manufacturing in India and the support […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak There has been suspicion of rigging elections by BJP government led by PM Narendra Modi, which just gained credence the way mayoral election in the Union Territory of Chandigarh was finally conducted and result declared on January 30. Votes polled for INDIA bloc’s candidates were invalidated and BJP’s candidate declared winner. […]

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By P. Sudhir The consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22 will symbolise the merger of State and religion under the rubric of Hindutva. Central to the `Pran Pratishtha’ of the idol of Lord Ram will be the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlining the fact that this is a State-sponsored […]

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NEW DELHI: India is reviewing the entire gamut of withholding tax provisions in line with the country’s overall thrust to simplify the tax structure to make it easier for businesses and reduce disputes. There are several tax deducted at source (TDS) provisions with different thresholds and multiple rates. This has created a TDS maze that […]

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By P. Sudhir The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have announced that the military operations in Gaza will continue throughout 2024. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly stated that the war in Gaza will continue till the Hamas is totally finished. He has also stated that Israel will control the Gaza border with Egypt which […]

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NEW DELHI: The plans to increase buoyancy in tax collections, widening the tax base and increasing the compliance by taxpayers seem to have been aided by the new income tax (IT) regime in the current financial year. However, experts feel a few more tweaks in the tax rates in the forthcoming interim Budget could make […]

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By P. Sudhir The year 2023 ends with the dark shadow of the genocidal massacre of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli war-machine. Nearly three months of Israel’s brutal aggression has led to (till December 26) 20,915 people killed in Gaza, of which more than 8,000 are children; another 53,918 have been wounded and an […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Maharashtra boasts a seemingly healthy tiger population, but the numbers hide a troubling reality: a significant number of these magnificent creatures are dying, with a third of the deaths attributed to unnatural causes. Since 2018, Maharashtra has lost 151 tigers. Poaching and electrocution were responsible for 42 tiger deaths. Drowning incidents […]

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By P. Sudhir Governors in Opposition-ruled states are becoming tools for the ruling party at the Centre to advance its political agenda and to create difficulties for the concerned state government for implementing its welfare programmes and development schemes. The role of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is particularly disruptive and obnoxious.  He had sat […]

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The Maharashtra government intends to implement the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) before the state elections in 2024, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who also holds the finance portfolio, has told the Legislative Council of the assembly. The statement comes amid state government officials calling for yet another protest to demand implementation of OPS. Pawar, during […]

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By P. Sudhir The results of the five state assembly elections are striking for the way the BJP has won in the three heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. A major victory is the coming back to power in Madhya Pradesh, a state where it has ruled for two decades, except for a […]

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By P. Sudhir It has become a crime in New India to observe Children’s Day by remembering the Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. This is what happened on November 14 in Mumbai when a few score people, including minor girls, held a silent prayer in Juhu beach. 17 of them were arrested […]

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By P. Sudhir Madhya Pradesh is a state ruled longest by the BJP after Gujarat. The BJP has ruled the state from 2002 till now with a one and a half year interruption of a Congress government (which was toppled through defections). During the assembly election campaign, union home minister, Amit Shah, has claimed that […]

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By P. Sudhir One of the ways federalism and the powers of the elected state legislatures are being undermined, is by governors sitting over the bills passed by the legislatures without taking any decision regarding them. According to the constitution, bills passed by the state legislatures have to be given assent by the governor in […]

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NEW DELHI: In a bid to streamline the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) and prevent delays in the execution of the resolution plans, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has floated a discussion paper and proposed amendments to the existing regulations. The proposed amendments suggest to structure the resolution plan in two parts […]

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By P. Sudhir Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, by seeking to make communal capital out of the bomb blasts at a Christian group gathering in Kalamassery in Kerala, has exposed the vicious nature of the campaign the BJP-RSS circles are conducting regarding Israel’s war on Gaza. Chandrasekhar, immediately after the blasts, hinted that jihadi elements had […]

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By P. Sudhir The speech of the RSS chief at the annual Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur is supposed to contain the authoritative pronouncements of the Sangh. In the rally last Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat’s speech continued with the theme of the last few Vijayadashami speeches, where the Sangh totally identified with the Narendra Modi government and […]

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The BJP’s big push to change its fortunes in the region, which had spurned it in the last Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, seems to be facing some headwinds as regional factors take precedence and the Congress’ pitch for change challenges the ruling party’s narrative woven around the planks of development and welfarism. Across several constituencies […]

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By P. Sudhir The ferocious conflict which has erupted with the astounding Hamas attacks in southern Israel and the Israeli counteroffensive with the savage bombardment of Gaza constitutes a new chapter in the ongoing history of the occupation and the resistance to it by the Palestinian people. At the time of writing this editorial, after […]

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Cancelling two arrests in a money-laundering case, the Supreme Court, in a sharp rebuke for the Enforcement Directorate, said the probe agency could not be vindictive and must be seen to act with the highest degree of fairness. The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the arrest of Basant Bansal and Pankaj Bansal, directors of […]

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