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By Harihar Swarup The results of the assembly elections to the five states announced on December 3 and 4 led to many winners and losers for the time being. All of them will be getting another chance to prove their mettle in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Narendra Modi: Modi was the face of BJP’s

New Delhi: State-owned Coal India Limited (CIL) is set to boost its coal transportation network by completing several railway projects by 2025, aiming to increase its coal evacuation capacity in response to the country’s energy demand. Among the projects, the Tori-Shivpur New BG Double line, running 43.70 km, has been operational since December 2019

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, the world’s largest private and state-sector oil companies, led a pledge by 50 oil and gas producers at the COP28 climate summit to cut emissions from their own operations. The deal is controversial given none of the companies are agreeing to reduce oil and gas production. But they […]

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NEW DELHI: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation’s top oil firm, has revised the estimates of cost of expanding the Panipat refinery in Haryana by 10 per cent to Rs 36,225 crore and pushed back completion deadline by more than a year to December 2025. IOC is expanding its 15 million tonnes a

NEW DELHI: As the world celebrated International Day of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) on December 3, corporate India has kept up with efforts to make workplaces more inclusive and accessible. Organisations across sectors are taking initiatives such as equipping offices with practical work tools like Braille-friendly and voice-enabled lifts and screen readers. While inclusion has […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Let us call the spade a spade. The results of the five state assemblies announced on December 3 and 4 are sending ominous signals to the anti-BJP opposition just four months before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May 2024. To be frank, the final results leading to the defeat

By Nantoo Banerjee In his recent Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was troubled by the trend of some “big families” conducting weddings abroad, and urged people to hold such celebrations on Indian soil so that the country’s money does not leave its shores. “The wedding season as well has […]

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By Kalyani Shankar After the Five States Assembly poll results, speculation about who the new chief ministers will be is rife. The BJP has won three states and the Congress one. In Mizoram, the XDF has won defeating the ruling MNF. Although the B.J.P. has strengthened itself in the North, it has yet to

The assembly poll results, which handed a 3-1 win to the BJP and Congress respectively, have cast a shadow on the future of the Grand Old Party in the opposition bloc. Partners of INDIA have begun training guns on the Congress, with the Trinamool Congress — a prominent player — slamming the party for its […]

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Anti-incumbency, non-delivery of promises, overplaying the Telangana sentiment, corruption charges and overconfidence define how the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) lost Telangana for the first time since the inception of the state in 2014. Since its formation, BRS, formerly known as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), has fought elections while capitalising on the Telangana sentiment. […]

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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that the outcome of the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections would have been different had the Congress shared some seats with constituents of the INDIA bloc. He also said the grand old party should revisit its outlook towards allies recalling that it was Kamal Nath who had […]

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The results of Assembly polls yesterday show that “people have rejected negativity”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this morning, urging the Opposition “not to vent the frustration of defeat” inside the Parliament. The Prime Minister was addressing the media ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament. “I request all MPs to come to Parliament with […]

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The BJP national leadership is expected to make the announcement soon about the new Rajasthan chief minister. There are five contenders for the post, including former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Daughter of founding BJP leader Vijayraje Scindia and sister of the late Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia, Vasundhara Raje started her political career in 1984 as a […]

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By K R Sudhaman Government statistics released this week paint a rosy picture of the Indian economy with GDP growth clocking 7.6 per cent in the second quarter of this financial year 2023-24 on the back of strong manufacturing sector. This also strengthens India’s position as the fastest growing major economy, a position held by […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak A two-volume new ILO research has revealed that participation of India in Global Value Chains (GVCs) has resulted into social downgrading of the workforce, chiefly due to non-integration of labour standards into trade and investment. It is just opposite our expectation, since GVCs are a prominent feature of international trade, which […]

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By Kunal Bose India’s unreserved opposition to China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative launched across four continents over ten years ago by President Xi Jinping with great fanfare was given vent to from time to time by powers that be, including prime minister Narendra Modi. More recently, India’s external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi […]

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By James M Dorsey Spanish philosopher George Santayana didn’t have Palestine in mind when he coined the phrase, ‘history repeats itself. ‘Yet, Santayana’s maxim may apply to Hamas when comparing the group’s political evolution to the 16-year-torturous road traversed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from classification by Israel and its Western allies as

The 3-1 verdict between BJP and Congress in the state assembly elections set the stage for the road to the national polls in 2024. State and national contests often differ, of course, but several key indicators of the national mood stand out from the results in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. The results also […]

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With three crucial states for which assembly elections were held under his belt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to arrive party’s headquarters in Delhi today to meet members, officials, and the public. Reports say the PM is likely to reach the BJP’s headquarters somewhere between 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm. However, the exact time […]

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More than two years ago, Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) had invited Sunil Kanugolu to his farmhouse near Hyderabad to discuss the possibility of hiring him to handle the elections. Kanugolu had just finished working for the Tamil Nadu elections and was ready to take up his new assignment. The meeting went on […]

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A total of 19 bills and two financial items are likely to be taken up for debate at the upcoming winter session from December 4 to 22. These will include legislation to replace the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Act, and bills to extend provisions of the women’s reservation law in […]

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As the BJP zoomed ahead of the Congress in the Madhya Pradesh election trends, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia responded to a jab taken by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at his height. Responding to NDTV’s question on the BJP’s stellar show in the Gwalior Malwa region, seen as his area of influence, Scindia said, “Someone […]

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Ahead of the results to assembly elections in five states and a clear edge to the Congress party in at least two states in the exit polls, the senior leadership of the grand old party has geared up to prevent poaching in case of tight race on December 3. Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge has […]

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The Supreme Court on Friday asked Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi to hold a meeting with Chief Minister MK Stalin to resolve the impasse over the non-grant of assent to Bills passed by the state legislative Assembly. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra took note of the […]

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By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi bhakts are absolutely correct in saying “Modi hai to mumkin hai” (everything possible with Modi around). Elections to the Madhya Pradesh assembly were held on November 17, thirteen days ahead of the Telangana elections. During the intervening days, political analysts and even some of the pollsters predicted a clear victory […]

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By Sushil Kutty There is some confusion on whether India should consider itself “Vishwaguru” or be wise and hold back on the boast? One view is why go the extra mile with the “present government’s exaggerated sense of the country’s global power and indigenous capability”, i.e., Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “macho manner” and muscular

By Harihar Swarup As the polls for five Assemblies elections are over— and Rajasthan and Telangana have become unexpectedly exciting, with the Congress putting up a fight—it’s time to capture some broad trends. What is striking are the areas where consensus is now developing across parties, and one of them is the need to provide

By K Raveendran The renewed escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict is providing additional impetus for gold to climb higher levels. The yellow metal has already been trending higher over the past two months, but the end of truce between Hamas and Israeli forces, unleashing new bomb attacks and destruction of lives and properties, particularly

A leader of the Azad Samaj Party, the political outfit of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, was shot dead by his uncle over a property dispute in Talgram area in Kannauj, police said on Friday. Satyendra Singh Katheria, a district unit general secretary of the Azad Samaj Party, was taken to a hospital following the […]

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The Lok Sabha ethics committee report on the cash-for-query allegations against TMC leader Mahua Moitra will be tabled on December 4 on the first day of the winter session of Parliament. The MP is likely to be disqualified while the INDIA bloc is expected to stage a walkout in protest, sources said. The item was […]

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Just hours before Telangana went to polls, Andhra Pradesh took charge of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and began releasing water, leading to tensions between the two states. At around 2 am on Thursday, when most Telangana officials were busy with the polls, nearly 700 Andhra cops stormed into the project and opened the right canal […]

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By Sushil Kutty The still nascent state of Telangana is up for its first great opportunity with Telangana Chief Minister, the great K. Chandrashekar Rao – ‘KCR’ for short – poised to make his exit if the exit polls of November 30 are to go by. The exit polls have given Telangana to the Congress […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak UN Climate Change Conference – United Arab Emirates (November 30 – December 12, 2023), popularly known as COP28, has begun with first major milestone on the day-one, by delivering a historic agreement that made the Fund operational, which was agreed upon during COP27 last year. The agreement was reached by parties […]

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By Arun Srivastava If the exit polls on the five state assembly polls relating to Telangana are to be believed, the BJP’s grandiose plans to conquer South as envisaged by both the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Home Minister Amit Shah, will be in tatters after December 3. Following the resounding defeat in