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By Sushil Kutty Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Chandrachud have two years facing each across the aisle. The rightwing Prime Minister, and the left-liberal CJI described as progressive and ’woke’. Head to head, the two are as different as chalk and cheese, and the stuff on Chandrachud’s plate could taste […]

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The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) entered into a pre-poll alliance for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, as part of which the Sharad Pawar-led party will contest three of the total 182 seats in the state, the leaders of the two parties announced here on Friday. In the 2017 Assembly elections, the […]

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BJP has attacked AAP over the inclusion of MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam as a star campaigner for the MCD polls. The saffron party accused AAP of taking an “anti-Hindu” stand. Gautam had resigned last month from the Arvind Kejriwal-led government after courting controversy over attending a religious conversion programme in which Hindu deities were allegedly […]

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By Arun Srivastava It is not a secret what made the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to question the functioning of the collegium of the Supreme Court and malign the face of the judiciary in public. For a fortnight he has been targeting the judges and judiciary and accusing them of transgressing into the domain […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP and AAP have rolled out very competitive promises to the voters of Delhi ahead of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls scheduled for December 4, the result of which would be declared on December 7. Congress has alleged conspiracy in the delimitation process that would ultimately reduce the significance […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The UN agencies and NGOs working in Sri Lanka have warned that the food crisis in the island nation with 22 million people is worsening. In its June 2022 report, the UN said that at least 1.7 million people need immediate help. Early this week, it said now the number has […]

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The Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi continued on the fifth day of its Maharashtra leg in Nanded district on Friday and will later enter neighbouring Hingoli district, where Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Aaditya Thackeray will take part in it. Thackeray is scheduled to join the foot march around 4 pm […]

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Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar, who is spearheading formation of an anti-BJP alliance before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, is likely to visit Assam next month, opposition party leaders said on Thursday. A senior Congress leader and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) President Badaruddin Ajmal separately said that Nitish Kumar, the chief of Janata […]

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Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Thursday said the party’s campaign planning for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls could have been “much better” with the deployment of senior leaders, and rued that his services were not fully utilised. However, Sharma said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has led a spirited campaign in the state […]

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Two days after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar ordered the strict implementation of the prohibition law by cracking down on liquor suppliers, JD(U) national parliamentary board president Upendra Kushwaha caused him major embarrassment by saying prohibition had been unsuccessful in the state. Kushwaha also remarked on the role of the people in the state in […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak It did not come as surprise when Delhi government led by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now accused Lieutenant Governor Office in an affidavit in the Supreme Court of “Derailing” Governance in the National Capital Territory of India, as has been seen in several states during the last 8 years of […]

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Tamil Nadu’s ruling party DMK has petitioned President Droupadi Murmu to sack the state’s Governor RN Ravi, alleging that he is “instigating communal hatred” and has violated the oath he took under the constitution. “Governor RN Ravi has violated the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law,” the party said in […]

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By Sushil Kutty In today’s divided world, an independent foreign policy can be possible only when pressure from the US and EU can be countered with the “what works to my advantage” doctrine, which is why Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t stop himself from praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not falling prey to […]

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As many as 26 leaders of the Congress party, including Dharampal Thakur Khand, former general secretary of the Pradesh Congress Committee have joined the ruling BJP. Coming as a big jolt to the party, the leaders jumped the boat in the presence of Jairam Thakur and BJP state elections in charge Sudhan Singh. Chief Minister […]

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Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Chief Satish Laxmanrao Jarkiholi sparked a row as he claimed that the word ‘Hindu’ hails from Persia and not India. Not only this, he called the word “horrible” and asked what is its relation with India. He was speaking during an event in Belagavi district on Sunday, when he made […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said small and medium businesses suffered due to “wrong” policies of the Centre like demonetisation and poor implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) as he entered Maharashtra on Monday night holding a ‘flaming torch’ (mashaal) as part of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. Rahul said during his stay in Maharashtra […]

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By Sushil Kutty Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda must have hit bed Sunday evening with a satisfied smile, but not as wide as the one ‘K’ for King Chandrashekar Rao must have had on his lean face. Stand Nadda and Rao shoulder to shoulder and it will be Laurel & Hardy in desi […]

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