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By Arun Srivastava With Israel declaring war on the Gaza Strip after an unexpected attack by the terrorist Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, the global fraternity is straining to decode the real nature and reasons for the armed engagement. Apparently, there is no tangible reason for Hamas to attack Israel. No doubts some small […]

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The delay in deciding the disqualification petitions against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena MLAs loyal to him Friday came under strict scrutiny by the Supreme Court which came down hard on the Maharashtra assembly speaker, saying the proceedings cannot be a “charade” and he cannot defeat its orders. A bench comprising Chief Justice […]

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Senior Punjab BJP leaders Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu and Gurpreet Kangar have decided to return to the Congress while some leaders from the SAD are also expected to follow suit. These leaders, along with some others from Punjab, met Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal in New Delhi late on Friday, the Congress’ Punjab […]

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A war of words broke out between Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who targeted each other over the implementation of public welfare schemes in the state. While Gandhi accused Chouhan of misleading people and asserted that there was no dictatorship in the Congress unlike the Bharatiya […]

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The Congress’ Rajasthan state election committee held discussions on names of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections, amid demonstrations by party workers against some sitting MLAs. They demanded that the party not give tickets to certain MLAs for the November 25 elections. The committee headed by state Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra will present the […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Assam, Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, responding to fresh charges of corruption from the opposition, has launched a sharp counter attack specially targeting the Congress party in the pre-poll campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam unlike in other states,

By Satyaki Chakraborty Ecuador belonging to the Latin American continent is witnessing its run off Presidential elections on October 15, Sunday culminating in a fierce poll campaign marked by jail killings, car bombings, shootings and a widespread security crisis involving the common citizens. The Left wing Presidential nominee Luisa Gonzalez who entered the

By Prabhat Patnaik The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream. The tiger, wanting an excuse to attack the goat, accuses it of muddying the water it is drinking; when the goat points to the impossibility of this,

By Sushil Kutty ‘Global Jihad Day’, Friday, October 13, was an imposition on the non-Muslim world. The Muslim world has a grudge and the rest of the world has to pause and pay. It is about who is the aggressor and who is the silent sufferer? It is no longer ‘Hamas’, but the entire Muslim […]

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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday claimed that more than 40 BJP and JD(S) leaders opposed to the recently struck alliance between the two parties are willing to join the Congress. Shivakumar spoke to reporters after former BJP MLA Ramappa Lamani, who was denied a ticket by the saffron party to contest […]

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In the “freebie war” in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the Congress has promised a monthly dole for every school-going child in the state, which may cost nearly Rs 20,000 crore a year and put a big strain on the state’s education budget. There are expected to be nearly three crore children in the age group of […]

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The Congress on Thursday accused the Narendra Modi government of imposing an 18 percent GST on the water of the holy Ganga river and termed it the height of “loot and hypocrisy”. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, however, dismissed the Congress claim and said no such tax has been imposed on Gangajal, […]

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NCP president Sharad Pawar on Thursday said his nephew and rebel NCP faction leader Ajit Pawar will never become the chief minister of Maharashtra. He also said the BJP does not rule in 70 percent of states in the country and it will lose power in Maharashtra too. Asked about speculation that Ajit Pawar, who […]

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The Israel’s Defence Forces (IDF) today released footage showing and elite unit rescuing over 250 hostages near the Gaza security fence. Sixty Hamas terrorists were also killed as the Israel’s military’s “Shayetet 13” unit stormed the Sufa outpost. The IDF said 250 hostages were rescued, while “over 60 Hamas terrorists were neutralised and 26 were […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Is US President’s son Hunter Biden putting pressure on the US administration to tighten noose around the Bangladesh government headed by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to pursue the agenda of the ruling Awami League’s rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) before the general elections scheduled early next year? The issue has assumed […]

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By P. Sudhir The ferocious conflict which has erupted with the astounding Hamas attacks in southern Israel and the Israeli counteroffensive with the savage bombardment of Gaza constitutes a new chapter in the ongoing history of the occupation and the resistance to it by the Palestinian people. At the time of writing this

By Sushil Kutty Elections often throw up surprises. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao isn’t one for unexpected surprises though. He is confident his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, will keep control of the Telangana assembly at the expense of the Congress and the BJP. Reports say money and liquor are inundating the poll-bound state

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rajasthan polls, that has been rescheduled for November 25 from November 23 by the Election Commission of India on account of very large number of weddings in the state, has offered the twin challenges of “infighting and anti-incumbency” for both the Congress and the BJP. The way the BJP’s ticket aspirants […]

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that in the name of withdrawing provisions under the sedition law, the Union home ministry is introducing more severe and arbitrary measures in the proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. She claimed that a serious attempt is being made by the Centre to quietly introduce very harsh and […]

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Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday climbed over the boundary of Jai Prakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) in Lucknow to pay floral tribute to Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary. The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) had denied Yadav permission to enter the JPNIC, which was inaugurated […]

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With BJP accusing the Congress of supporting Hamas and the Palestine cause, party leader Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday said Congress will never support a “militant” organisation like Hamas which can be called a “terrorist activity”. Singh also said the Congress has always been against terrorism and violence. In light of the NIA conducting searches at […]

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Mizoram Assembly Speaker and MNF leader Lalrinliana Sailo on Wednesday resigned as a legislator and said he would join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the “development” in the state. He won the Chalfilh seat in the 2018 assembly polls but was denied a ticket by the ruling party for the 2023 state assembly elections […]

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Israel Defence Forces today said that they will continue to act decisively against the Hamas group, which launched a rocket barrage on Saturday that killed 1,200 Israelis. Hamas has also taken several hostages and are carrying out executions, the IDF claimed. “There were reports that babies are being executed. It was hard to believe that […]

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By K Raveendran Curiously, the Hamas attack and the Israeli reprisal coincide with the 5oth anniversary of the first oil crisis, which plunged the world into an oil shock of unprecedented proportions, causing energy prices to skyrocket and leading to fuel shortages, particularly in the United States. And by all indications, the results of the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The political pulse felt by the majority of analysts in the five poll bound states – Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana – suggests that “Modi Factor” has failed to emerge as decisive aspect so far. Rather, the roles of BJP’s state leaders have become crucial for final outcome of […]

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By Sushil Kutty Voting for elections to the assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram are to take place from November 7 to 30. Counting of votes will be on December 3 and by evening of the day, the results will be plain to all and sundry and the question whether the

By Anjan Roy Not unexpectedly, Israel-Hamas war has sparked off a battle of words and ideas between two mainline political parties in India. The prime minister’s statement on the Hamas attack as a terrorist act and full support to Israel came face to face from criticisms from the Congress. In its statements, India’s grand old […]

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A day after the BJP announced its first list of 41 candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly polls, at least five disappointed ticket aspirants — or their supporters — on Tuesday protested against the party. In one case, supporters of a leader who was denied party ticket burned its flags. Supporters of former BJP MLA from […]

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the investigation into the alleged violations in foreign funding by NewsClick website, sources have said. The Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha on October 3 under anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, days after a New York Times investigation alleged that the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty It is now a full-fledged war between Palestinian militants and Israel. In the last four days, nearly two thousand have been killed. All indications point to further escalation involving the other militants friendly with Hamas on the one side, and big assistance to the far-right Netanyahu regime by the US and other […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chhattisgarh has turned into the most politically and administratively sensitive state among the five going to poll in November 2023, as it is reflected in the decision of the Election Commission of India to conduct polls in two phases – first on November 7 and second on November 17. Left Wing […]

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By Arun Srivastava On Saturday, the rightist ecosystem put out a post; ‘What Israel is facing today, India suffered between 2004-14”. The post also mentioned; “Yesterday, Israel faced a dastardly terror attack, just like Mumbai was targeted 26/11/2008. Israel has declared war and their military has struck back. What did India under a weak-kneed

By Sushil Kutty Not mentioning “Hamas” in the Congress Working Committee resolution on the Israel-Hamas confrontation in the Gaza Strip is bothering the Congress as it shapes up for the assembly elections in five states. The election commission has spoken about the election deadlines and both the leading parties in the fray – the Bharatiya

The Aam Aadmi Party is ready to contest the upcoming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan with full strength and the names of candidates will be declared soon, its national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Monday. The Election Commission has announced that assembly polls in Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan […]

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