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By Nitya Chakraborty The seat sharing talks between the constituents of INDIA block have started in right earnest. Congress high command has finally understood the need for early clinching of the agreements between the INDIA partners taking into the specifics of the political situation in each state. It is a welcome development. To start with, […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Can the enormous popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi help the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieve electoral success in the southern states? The Party is seeking to gain more voters in the challenging southern region. Its presence is limited in states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh. Since it has […]

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By Arun Srivastava If the unpredictable posture of Nitish Kumar has been the main factor for demoralising the INDIA constituents in Bihar, the propensity of RJD chief Lalu Yadav not to treat the Left parties as equals has further aggravated the situation to the point of turning the INDIA bloc suspect in the eyes of […]

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NEW DELHI: Rural startups are making a strong pitch for new programmes to foster research and innovation, as the grassroots-level entrepreneurs seek support for streamlined supply chains, subsidies, improved infrastructure, and easy access to finance. As the Budget and the Lok Sabha elections draw closer, startups working in various sectors, especially in smaller towns and […]

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By Arun Srivastava Increasingly, it seems that it is not the BJP per se, but the leaders of the constituents of the united opposition’s INDIA bloc are its worst enemies. While the core committee of the senior BJP leaders has been burning the midnight lamp finalising the list of the candidates, working out electoral strategy […]

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The ruling BJD and opposition BJP were working against Odisha’s self-esteem by involving “outsiders” in the state’s affairs, senior Congress leader Ajoy Kumar alleged on Sunday. Raising the slogan of “Odisha for Odias”, he claimed that “outsiders” were now playing a bigger role in the state’s politics, economy and bureaucracy while the importance of Odias […]

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Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary on Sunday said that if the INDIA bloc comes to power after the upcoming Lok Sabha Polls, the first thing it would do is abolish the Agniveer scheme. Jayant Choudhary, who was addressing a ‘Youth Parliament’ organised by RLD at the Sai Dham Colony grounds, said, “If India’s […]

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Fresh on the heels of a controversy triggered by Karnataka MLC BK Hariprasad’s Godhra comment, the Congress seems to have invited a new one involving Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah’s son Yathindra Siddaramaiah. The former MLA equated India’s becoming a “Hindu Rashtra” to being like Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yathindra courted controversy by saying if India becomes […]

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Bangladesh is set to vote in its 12th general election today amid a boycott and strike by the main opposition party. There have also been incidents of arson, including at least five schools and a train being set ablaze. Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League party has been the prime minister of Bangladesh since 2008 […]

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By Harihar Swarup As Bangladesh prepares for its 12th parliamentary polls on January 7, speculation abounds on the impact of the election outcome on Dhaka’s relationship with Delhi. From historic landmarks such as the 2015 land boundary agreement to lows during 2001-2006, when a coalition led by the current Opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party […]

The post India Needs To Impart Dynamism To Its Bilateral Ties With Bangladesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

The assault on ED officers in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Friday sparked a political slugfest, with the BJP and Congress calling for the imposition of President’s rule, even as the ruling TMC accused the central agency sleuths of inciting locals. ED officers were assaulted and their vehicles damaged allegedly by supporters of […]

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By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership is happy that its electoral strategy has paid rich dividend in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in just concluded assembly elections Now the RSS chief is concentrating on Bihar, Bengal and Odisha taking in view the coming Lok Sabha polls. Apart it is the threat perception […]

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By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was her father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took over the reins of the party, the Mahagathbandhan alliance partners are wondering whether the decision was deliberately engineered to create a conducive atmosphere for Kumar to switch over, once again to the NDA, or put pressure on the INDIA bloc, or just to hog the […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar deserved to be the prime ministerial candidate, and not merely the convenor of INDIA coalition, a couple of the JD(U) president’s close aides asserted here on Thursday. The averment came from ministers Madan Sahni and Ratnesh Sada, both of whom had visited the JD(U)’s Bihar headquarters here for “Jan Sunwai”, […]

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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using a five-point agenda to promote “Hindutva fascism” in the country and said the political situation is not good for the saffron outfit ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing party workers in the temple town of Shirdi in […]

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Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari on Thursday said the Congress’ loss in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections was not because the party opted for a Dalit Sikh chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, but because of their “internal contradictions”. At a discussion on book ‘Punjab- From the Perspective of a Punjabi Hindu’ written by author and […]

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Last Updated: January 04, 2024, 00:57 IST With just a couple of months to go before the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has done a major rejig of the organisational heads of its morchas (wings). The party released the list of all the new organisational appointments late on Wednesday evening. The BJP’s Yuva […]

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Top Congress leaders from across the country will hold a meeting on January 4 to discuss the party’s preparedness for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the upcoming Bharat Nyay Yatra. The Congress will hold a day-long meeting of its general secretaries, PCC presidents and CLP leaders among others, party sources said. The meeting, […]

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In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will target women and the youth. BJP national president JP Nadda has appointed a committee to hold sammelans (public meetings) focusing on these groups. The panel held its first meeting in the national capital at the party headquarters on Tuesday. The […]

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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may not ally with the Congress in Punjab, as part of the opposition’s Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) front against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, according to top sources in the party. Sources said the alliance between the two will be for states […]

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday dismissed speculations of his wife Kalpana Soren contesting from Gandey assembly constituency in the state and termed it as a ”complete imagination” of the BJP. There is not an iota of truth in the speculations, said Soren who is the executive president of the JMM. ”Possibility of my […]

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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday took a jibe at the Congress losing ground in Delhi and Punjab comparing the party’s existence in the two states to the “shortest story a mother can tell her kids”. “…The shortest story a mother in Delhi or Punjab, can narrate to her child is ‘Ek thi Congress’…” […]

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