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The Enforcement Directorate will question former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in Tihar jail today. The AAP leader was arrested by CBI and was sent to judicial custody till March 20 in connection to Delhi Liquor scam. The Enforcement Directorate will record Sisodia’s statement against allegations of money-laundering linked to the liquor policy case. Ex-Delhi […]

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The Congress on Saturday hit back at the BJP for criticising Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at Cambridge University, saying the ruling party’s statements either stem from ignorance or from “completely contrived politics” both of which have no place in a democracy. Gandhi’s remarks at the university that Indian democracy is under attack and several politicians, including […]

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By Harihar Swarup In 1989 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party lost the tag of being a “dominant” party. Since then, it has not figured out how to remain competitive in a multi-party, federal polity. As the next Lok Sabha elections are due in 2024, it continues to face challenges that have haunted it over […]

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By Dr. Nilanjan Banik February 24, 2023 marks the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war. What seems to be a fight between David and Goliath is still continuing. The Russian armed force has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, the second largest fleet of ballistic missiles, and almost five times more military personnel in […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Much of BJP’s chances to return with clear majority to Lok Sabha after next year’s national election may depend on how the party fares in eight state assembly elections during this year.  They offer a big test for BJP. Only two of the eight states — Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh — are […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a misleading statement the other day that is not expected from a responsible member of the union cabinet. Talking about the resource transfer to the states in the recent budget, she said that the magnitude of transfer had been raised “sharply”. Now, this statement, while creating the […]

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By Prakash Karat The recent appointment of six new governors by the president of India has revealed a lot about how the post of governor is viewed and cynically misused by the Modi government. The appointment of Justice S Abdul Nazeer, who had retired from the Supreme Court just two months ago, as the governor […]

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In a stinging attack on the Gandhi family, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked why they do not use “Nehru” as their surname and said India is not a slave to any family. The Prime Minister also accused the grand-old-party of toppling several state governments during their rule at the Centre. “If in some […]

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By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blocked the demand raised by the Opposition in the Parliament for an enquiry to be monitored by the Supreme Court or to set up Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Adani group’s manipulations of the stock market and fraud and into the allegations levelled against the industrialist […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The result of the election for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held on December 4, was declared on December 7, 2022. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had won 134 seats in a house of 250. The BJP that had been ruling the MCD for the last 15 years could win 104 seats […]

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The Enforcement Directorate has questioned and recorded the statement of Alankar Sawai, a close aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a money laundering case in which TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale was recently arrested by the agency in Gujarat, officials said. Sawai was questioned and also confronted with Gokhale in Ahmedabad over three days earlier […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It has become a nauseatingly unredeemable tale of rejection and rebuff for Kerala. True to pattern, the State has once again been given the cold shoulder in the Union Budget. None of the demands made by the state have been accepted. The only silver lining has been the decision to increase […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik The most outstanding feature of the Indian economy today is the sluggish increase in real consumption expenditure. Between 2019-20 and 2022-23 for instance the per capita real consumption expenditure has grown by less than 5 per cent which is less than the rate of growth of the gross domestic product. Even the […]

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Amit Mitra, former finance minister of Bengal and well known economist expressed disappointment that the Union Budget did not address the issues of tackling unemployment and rising inflation, the two main problems facing the “common man.” Mitra, who is currently Principal Chief Adviser to West Bengal Chief Minister, in an interview to PTI on Wednesday, […]

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The forthcoming Budget session of Parliament will be turbulent, if an all-party meeting called by the government on Monday is any indication. While the government believes that the meeting was held in an amicable environment and an appeal was made for smooth functioning of Parliament as it is ready for any discussion, leaders from the […]

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By Annie Domini It was snowing hard in Srinagar, capital of Jammu and Kashmir, when the concluding ceremony of Bharat Jodo Yatra took place on the morning of30 January, 2023. Rahul Gandhi was finally donning a pheran, the traditional Kashmiri coat, as he delivered an emotionally rousing speech, delineating the aim and achievement of the […]

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By Krishna Jha “Today, when there is so much talk about revising of the Constitution or even writing a new Constitution, we have to consider whether it is the Constitution that has failed us or whether it is we who have failed the Constitution,” said the then President K R Narayanan while speaking in the […]

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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday called the basic structure doctrine a North Star that guides and gives certain direction to the interpreters and implementers of the Constitution when the path ahead is convoluted. The remarks by the CJI came against the backdrop of the recent remarks by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar who […]

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By Harihar Swarup The Bharat Jodo Yatra will culminate on January 30 in Srinagar with a flag hoisting ceremony at Srinagar on the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. By then, the yatra which began on September 7, 2022 would have traversed the length of the sub-continent from Kanyakumari to Himalayas. The yatra has […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Decades ago, the first DMK chief minister C.N. Annadurai compared the post of a governor to a  redundant goat’s beard. It was after Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dismissed the E M S Namboodiripad government on the recommendations of the then Kerala Governor on July 31, 1959. Once again, today, the role of […]

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