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Eyeing 2024 Lok Sabha and assembly elections, Odisha BJP in charge Sunil Bansal, who is on a two-day state visit, has made a blueprint, which comprises a five-point formula, which he has shared with party leaders. Bansal has sought reports from BJP state president Samir Mohanty and general secretary Golak Mohapatra on the organisational status […]

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By Debabrata Biswas from Boston America is going to a cliff hanger midterm election in November, this year. A few months ago, the election looked primarily a referendum on the performance of the Democrats and the Biden presidency, centering economy, inflation, crime, immigration and Biden’s stalled legislative agenda in Congress. Republicans were optimistic that a […]

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By Ben Burgis The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was laid to rest on Saturday in Moscow. It wasn’t officially designated as a state funeral, although it had “elements of a state funeral,” and Russian president Vladimir Putin skipped it. The snub isn’t surprising. Gorbachev’s program of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) […]

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Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Pramod Tiwari on Monday said someone from the Gandhi family should be the party’s president, stressing that there will be a fragmentation in the party if it doesn’t happen. Election for the post of Congress chief will be held on October 17 and the result will be declared […]

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By Arun Srivastava It was more than a coincidence, when the rebel Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was echoing the views of Narendra Modi of rout of the Congress at a rally in Jammu, the veteran Nitish Kumar was telling the people of the country that the BJP under Modi would not fetch more than […]

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Social activist Yogendra Yadav has resigned from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha coordination committee but said he will remain a “soldier” of the farmers’ collective. The SKM made Yadav’s resignation letter public at a press conference at Gurudwara Rakabganj here. In the letter, Yadav has said he will no longer be in the coordination committee of […]

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With just five months left for the Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which shares power with the National People’s Party (NPP) in Meghalaya has threatened to withdraw support following the spate of allegations against the Conrad Sangma government. Moreover, the BJP begins to dig out the documentary evidence on the scams against the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 91 in Moscow   will be remembered for his role in precipitating   the downfall of the   Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union in 1991 — 74 years after the November revolution in 1917  led by V. I. Lenin. The system […]

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By Harihar Swarup Congress has seen the exit of many heavy weights over the decades— and survived. It lost socialists in 1948, with Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Ram Manohar Lohia walking out to form the socialist party. It saw vertical split in 1969 when Indira Gandhi got the better of the “syndicate” and […]

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By James M Dorsey With the fate hanging in the balance of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program, prospects for greater security and stability in the Middle East are meagre with or without a deal. Undoubtedly, the region will be better off with a revival of the accord from which the United […]

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By Mark Gruenberg President Joe Biden took the gloves off against his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, calling the former Oval Office occupant and his MAGAite disciples a huge threat to democracy and the future of the United Sates. He went to Independence Hall   on September 1 to deliver both a dark message about how democracy […]

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”Desh ka neta kaisa ho Nitish Kumar jaisa ho” was the slogan that rent the air, and summed up the sentiment, at the JD(U)’s Bihar headquarters here ahead of the party’s national executive meeting scheduled on Saturday. The chief minister visited the Birchand Patel Marg office on Friday to take stock of the preparations for […]

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A meeting between erstwhile Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has ruffled feathers within the party’s state unit with some leaders seeking an explanation on the interaction between the two even as the ex-CM said he always stood by the Gandhi family. Congress Working Committee member and former […]

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Infighting in Bengal BJP came out in the open on Thursday when its national secretary Anupam Hazra slammed the party’s Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar for “lacking the personality” needed to lead a party and said he is just a puppet who is controlled by others. Hazra’s outburst against Majumdar came after he was not invited […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Just eighteen months are now left for the holding of the next Lok Sabha elections in March/April of 2024. BJP has been talking of a “Congress-mukt Bharat”, while the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao called for “BJP-mukt India” in Patna on Wednesday in the presence of the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish […]

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By Sushil Kutty Thiruvananthapuram Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor might run for Congress president. A final call is awaited. The last time the 70-year-old fought a non-parliamentary election, he aimed for the moon! But the moon was out of his orbit. This time, if he does contest, and he was still mulling the decision, he […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a breakthrough, IMF said in a statement Thursday morning that a staff-level agreement between IMF and the Sri Lankan government has been achieved. The agreement provides for $2.9 billion in assistance under Extended Fund Facility (EFF) over 48 months. The details of the agreement were made public on Thursday while […]

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