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By Satyaki Chakraborty In a major development in Latin American politics, defying all opinion poll projections, the candidate of the ruling centre left Peronist coalition Sergio Massa trounced the far right challenger Javier Milei in the first round of Presidential elections held on Sunday, October 22. Since no candidate out of the contesting five got […]

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has gone on an announcement spree this election season and is even promising a bridge where there is no river, claimed state Congress president Kamal Nath on Sunday. The BJP-governed MP will go to polls on November 17 and votes will be counted on December 3. “Shivraj Singh […]

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By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON—Playing the part of classic Cold Warrior in his Thursday night Oval Office speech, President Joe Biden made a sales pitch for a permanent war economy, using democracy as a prop to convince the American people that he needed $105 billion to spend on weapons for Israel, Ukraine, and—unmentioned in his remarks—Taiwan. […]

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The Congress high command has firmly snubbed state party leaders from issuing statements regarding seat sharing among INDIA bloc members in Uttar Pradesh, said sources on Sunday. The move comes after the SP leaders took a strong view of statements being issued by UP Congress leaders, and the SP president even accused the Congress of […]

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The opposition BJP in Chhattisgarh has filed a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Raipur seeking action against 83 Congress candidates, claiming they have not furnished their criminal record details to the Election Commission within 48 hours of their selection. The Congress, however, claimed the BJP was levelling false allegations against the ruling […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Calcutta as it was known then glorified itself in the title of ,”City of Palaces” owing to majestic buildings be it offices or grandees’ mansions dotting it. Lamenting those glorious gone by days when merchant princes from the city ran the economy of the country and beyond stop during […]

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The spat between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress over the seat-sharing arrangement in Madhya Pradesh on Friday turned worse when MP Congress President Kamal Nath gave a snappy response to a media query about Akhilesh Yadav. On being asked about SP’s allegations of betrayal over seat-sharing, Kamal Nath said, “Are bhai chhodo Akhilesh Vakhilesh […]

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Targeting the Congress on corruption, the BJP on Friday released the ATM Sarkara Collection Tree poster accusing the government of using Karnataka as the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) to fund Parliamentary polls and the forthcoming assembly elections in five states. The poster has pictures of Congress MP and former party president Rahul Gandhi on the […]

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By D. Raja With the country inching closer to polls in five states followed by the parliamentary elections, the situation remains quite dire and critical. The sinister design of the powers to be to transform the country socially and politically in the mode of theocratic order of the Hindu Rashtra is already underway. Religious majoritarianism, […]

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By Sushil Kutty That Sachin Pilot does not like Ashok Gehlot must not be a difficult answer in Rajasthan. The late Rajesh Pilot’s son is a long time sufferer at the hands of the magician-turned-politician who says “the CM post won’t leave me”. If only Sachin Pilot knew this before he was conceived, he would […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra For Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the prime supporters of the caste survey in the state, the result has been a strengthening of the ruling Mahagathbandhan’s social support base among Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) and Dalits, fulfilling a significant promise to […]

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Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Thursday alleged the BJP-led Centre is misusing probe agencies to target opposition leaders even after the enforcement of the model code of conduct, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission to intervene. Addressing a press conference here, the Rajasthan chief minister said Enforcement Directorate and Income […]

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The Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced its second list of 22 candidates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh amid strained ties with its INDIA grouping ally Congress over the formation of an alliance in the state. The SP announced its second list late on Wednesday night. It has, thus, announced 31 candidates for the […]

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A final chance has been given to Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar by the Supreme Court to set a realistic timeline for deciding the cross-petitions filed by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other’s MLAs following a split in the party. An apex court bench, headed by Chief Justice DY […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Electorates in the five poll bound states are not yet impressed by the political leaders who are making reference to the Israel-Hamas war during their campaigns to exploit their communal sentiments. Dominant issues for them presently relates chiefly to their respective states and performance of their local leaders in the past […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Janata Dal (Secular) stands split in the middle in Karnataka. If not in the body, at least in spirit. C M Ibrahim, a party bigwig, is at the centre of the brouhaha that has put the Gowda clan headed by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and his son, former Karnataka […]

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Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Monday said the focus of the INDIA bloc is on Lok Sabha elections and it’s fine if this coalition happens in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls. Polling for 230 seats in MP will be held in a single phase on November 17 and votes will be counted on December […]

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In poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, where the difference in the number of seats between the Congress and BJP was wafer thin in 2018, the saffron party this time is using the ongoing Navratri week to maximise its outreach with a goal to win 65,000 booths. Starting at 12 pm on Tuesday, the BJP will embark on […]

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The Indian National Congress has released its first list of candidates for the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana polls. The assembly elections will be held in Madhya Pradesh on November 17, Chhattisgarh on November 7 and 17, and Telangana on November 30. The results for all of these states will be declared on December 3. Congress […]

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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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In a reminder of the ‘Main bhi Chowkidaar’ campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls, Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak on Friday added a prefix to his name on his social media handle on X, formerly Twitter, making it ‘Servant Brajesh Pathak’. The move is […]

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The delay in deciding the disqualification petitions against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena MLAs loyal to him Friday came under strict scrutiny by the Supreme Court which came down hard on the Maharashtra assembly speaker, saying the proceedings cannot be a “charade” and he cannot defeat its orders. A bench comprising Chief Justice […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Assam, Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, responding to fresh charges of corruption from the opposition, has launched a sharp counter attack specially targeting the Congress party in the pre-poll campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam unlike in other states, appears to […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Ecuador belonging to the Latin American continent is witnessing its run off Presidential elections on October 15, Sunday culminating in a fierce poll campaign marked by jail killings, car bombings, shootings and a widespread security crisis involving the common citizens. The Left wing Presidential nominee Luisa Gonzalez who entered the runoff campaign […]

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