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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to chair the eighth Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog on Saturday, which will deliberate on several issues including, health, skill development, women empowerment and infrastructure development, with an aim to make India a developed nation by 2047. Six chief ministers, all from states not ruled by the Bharatiya Janata […]

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AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, announced boycott of the Niti Aayog meeting over Centre’s recent ordinance and charged that “cooperative federalism” in the country was being turned into a “joke”. The chief minister of the AAP-ruled Punjab, Bhagawant Mann, has also declared to boycott […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Greece is heading for another general elections next month, possibly on June 25 as the ruling National Democracy Party refused to form a government with the other contending parties and pitched for holding another general election to allow the party with the largest seats to get majority and run the new administration […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik Most people, including even trained economists, fail to appreciate the fact that an exchange rate depreciation, if it is to work in reducing the trade deficit in a capitalist economy, must necessarily hurt the working class by lowering the real wage rate. A capitalist economy, looking at it differently, improves its trade […]

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The inauguration event of new Parliament building has snowballed into a controversy after 19 Opposition parties announced to boycott the ceremony and accused the Central government of ignoring President Droupadi Murmu by not inviting her to the function on May 28 in Delhi. The ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has condemned the boycott decision […]

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By K Raveendran The abrupt announcement by RBI, withdrawing all Rs 2,000 notes from circulation, seems to have much more than what meets the eye. Going by the explanations provided so far, it is increasingly clear that there is plenty of room for the regulator to be more forthcoming on the decision. The RBI is […]

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The Aam Aadmi Party will soon launch its poll campaign in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where assembly elections are due later this year. Party sources said the poll campaigns will start with a “maha rally” in each of the three states. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is also the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) […]

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By Sushil Kutty Nobody can put a knife to the Congress party’s throat and compel it to stand with the Aam Aadmi Party against the Modi government’s ordinance which returned control of “services” – postings and transfers – to the Lt. Governor after a couple of days of celebrations over the Supreme Court verdict that […]

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By Debabrata Biswas A 2024 presidential election featuring president Joe Biden against former president Donald Trump would be a “rematch from hell” – former Republican congressman Will Hard said – “The reality is two third Americans want somebody else”. There’s evidence to support Hard’s argument that another presidential election featuring Biden and Trump is unpopular […]

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By Amiad Horowitz A new chapter in the modern history of the Middle East is beginning, and what’s most significant about it is the dwindling influence of the United States. Back in March, the People’s Republic of China helped broker a groundbreaking diplomatic rapprochement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Thailand’s Move Forward party just signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with coalition partners after achieving an unexpected victory in the May 14 general election. The MOU serves as a framework for the coalition government, outlining 23 key agendas that the parties agree to work on collectively. Pita Limjaroenrat, the leader […]

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The AAP on Monday said it will organise a ‘maha rally’ on June 11 against the Centre’s “black ordinance” that effectively gives the lieutenant governor control over administrative services, negating a Supreme Court order in favour of the Kejriwal dispensation. This ordinance shows that the Centre will impose “dictatorial decisions” like this on the country, […]

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Madhya Pradesh Minister Vishvas Sarang on Sunday attacked senior Congress leader Kamal Nath over the anti-Sikh riots post the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. Nath, who was chief minister of MP from December 2018 to March 2020 and is currently state unit chief of the Congress, is expected to lead his […]

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Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has given a positive response to the call that he undergo narco-analysis to settle the allegations of sexual harassment. But he has a condition. “I am ready to get my narco test, polygraph test or lie detector done but my condition is that […]

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By Maria Duarte A traditional family in Lahore, Pakistan, is ripped apart when the youngest son becomes infatuated with an ambitious trans starlet in Saim Sadiq’s impressive debut feature which explores sexual fluidity, love, desire, and rebellion within a repressed patriarchal society. Haider (a phenomenal Ali Junejo) is unemployed and a stay-at-home husband, cooking for […]

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The fight between Delhi government and Centre remains on with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal now retweeting a post of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 2013 in which PM Modi wrote “why ordinance?”. PM Modi was the Gujarat chief minister back then and had posted the tweet to hit out at Congress that was at the […]

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By Sushil Kutty It is so blatantly brazen you can stick it to the wall and it will hang firm. Is it a violation of the law? It definitely is a ‘middle finger’ to the Supreme Court. The top court has been told “thus far, no further”. And it has left Delhi’s AAP government up […]

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Amid the row between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and the LG, the Centre has brought an ordinance to set up a permanent authority headed by Delhi CM along with Chief Secretary, Delhi & Principal Secretary (Home), Delhi to make recommendations to the Delhi LG regarding matters concerning transfer posting, vigilance and other incidental […]

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After the Supreme Court refused to stay the Patna High Court order halting a caste survey in Bihar, the BJP termed it a setback of the Nitish Kumar-led grand alliance government and demanded that it convene an all-party meeting to discuss the matter. The ruling JD(U), however, asserted that the BJP wants to politicise the […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik Under pressure from globalised finance capital, most countries of the world have enacted legislation fixing the size of the fiscal deficit as a proportion of GDP; generally it is 3 percent, and in India it is 3 per cent for the centre and 3 per cent for the states. The US however […]

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