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By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, the recent Awami League (AL) victory in the 2024 parliamentary polls has left major world powers sharply divided and common people confused. Significantly, the none-too-unpredictable outcome has not left too many Bangladeshis noticeably jubilant, excepting ruling AL leaders. The comfortable margin of the AL’s victory has bought ruling Prime Minister […]

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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has asked Murshidabad leaders to start preparing for three seats in the district, which has three Lok Sabha constituencies – Jangipur, Baharampur and Murshidabad – and two constituencies in South Maldah. Of these, Baharampur is the stronghold of senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is the incumbent MP, and […]

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Calling the idea of holding simultaneous elections as ‘undemocratic’ and against the guarantees of federalism and the basic structure of the Constitution, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge demanded dissolution of the high-powered committee formed to study it. In a letter to the secretary of the committee on one nation, one election, he requested former president Ram […]

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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has told district leaders of the Trinamool Congress to be prepared to field candidates in all the three Lok Sabha seats in Murshidabad district, sources said. Ms Banerjee’s instruction to her party was seen as posturing to its INDIA bloc partner Congress, headed by Mallikarjun Kharge. The Congress is yet […]

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By Arun Srivastava More than the leadership of the Congress and Samajwadi Party, it is the media, which is relatively inquisitive and worried about the two parties still not resolving the contentious issue of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh. While the leaders of two parties express their gratification at the pace and dimension of the […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra To consolidate its EBC, OBC and Dalit vote bank ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar has passed a proposal to provide financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh each to more than 94 lakh families identified based on the recently conducted caste survey. A proposal […]

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By Arun Srivastava Seat Sharing is the vital component of the electoral strategy, but for leaders of INDIA bloc of Jharkhand, using the forum for espousing the cause of the adivasis and poor and fight for their identity and welfare is the primary mission. Leaving aside one or two seats, the opposition leaders have succeeded […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Congress has appointed YS Sharmila, the party chief of Andhra Pradesh. But Sharmila, who is the politically estranged sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has a rather weak Andhra Pradesh unit of the Congress to fight her brother Jagan, who in turn is fighting anti-incumbency as well […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday strongly defended the party’s decision to not attend the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22 saying the event has been made into a “Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP function” with an “election flavour”. “The RSS and the BJP have made the January 22 function a […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed confidence on Tuesday that the seat-sharing issues among the INDIA bloc partners will be resolved and claimed that the coalition will defeat the BJP in this year’s Lok Sabha polls. He also said there is mutual respect and affection between the leaders of the INDIA bloc, which he asserted is […]

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Fitch has affirmed India’s sovereign rating at ‘BBB-’ with a stable outlook citing a robust medium-term growth outlook and sound external finances. The agency, however, flagged the country’s weak public finances as the “largest constraint” to the rating. The rating agency revised its growth projection for FY24 to 6.9% from the 6% forecast earlier. Fitch […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Congress Party’s responsibilities have increased with the decision of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc Opposition coalition to name Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the President. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has declined the post of convenor. Forming partnerships before elections is relatively easy, but the real challenge lies in agreeing on seats. How difficult […]

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In a big move ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have decided to come together to contest the Chandigarh mayoral elections. If the alliance between the two holds and works out, it will be the first time ever that the bitter rivals would be joining forces […]

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While terming Samajwadi Party (SP) a ‘Dalit-Virodhi’ party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Monday once again made it clear that it would contest solo in the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls. Besides, BSP chief Mayawati made it clear that the party would maintain distance from those with casteist and communal ideologies, re-assuring that her party would […]

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NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday asserted that there was no dispute among the INDIA bloc members over appointing its convenor even as he said there was no need to project any face for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as the leader can be chosen once the results are declared. He said that during a […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be hitting the road again. This time from Manipur to Mumbai, as part of his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, which begins today. The first leg of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kanyakumari to Kashmir was quite a success as it had at least ended the perception of the Wayanad MP as […]

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Leaders of INDIA bloc parties the Congress and AAP held a meeting on Friday to discuss seat sharing in Delhi, Punjab and other states for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, with both sides saying the talks were progressing well. The meeting at Congress leader Mukul Wasnik’s residence on Friday evening went on for nearly two […]

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By Arun Srivastava Now there is no more ambiguity. For almost a week, the four Shankaracharyas, the symbols of the Sanatan Dharma, are being ridiculed and humiliated at every public forum. The situation certainly did not acquire a nasty dimension all of a sudden. The manner in which the RSS and BJP have been denigrating […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Who will be the I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s prime ministerial face, Mallikarjun Kharge or Nitish Kumar? Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has emerged as the new champion of the cause of social justice, holding an unprecedented caste survey in the state. Nitish has always fancied and is seen as having the credentials for the […]

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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the ‘One Nation, One Election’ idea is not practically feasible going by India’s federal structure. Hours after sending a letter to Dr Niten Chandra, secretary of a high-level committee that has called for suggestions for implementation of the idea, Banerjee requested the […]

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The Congress has finally decided on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha on January 22, saying it will skip the “Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh/Bharatiya Janata Party event”. It has also raised the point that while the temple construction is incomplete, the inauguration was being hurried ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. These are the common grounds […]

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NEW DELHI: Tackling the deepfake issue will require regulations and close industry collaboration as there is no silver bullet for it, Nasscom Chairperson Rajesh Nambiar has said, terming it a “real concern”, especially in a year when several countries are going for polls. In an interview with PTI, the Nasscom chief also talked about continued […]

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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that central probe agencies were scripting dramas to conduct raids at houses of TMC leaders as the BJP is scared of her party. Her statement came four days after a mob assaulted Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers during a raid at TMC leader […]

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday hit out at the Centre for denying the state an opportunity to take part in the tableau presentation during the Republic Day parade. The Chief Minister said the Centre denied Karnataka a tableau because there is a Congress government in the state. According to him, the proposals for tableaux […]

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