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A day after several top world leaders touched down in Delhi for the big G20 Summit being hosted by India over the weekend, they will gather at the event venue — the Bharat Mandapam, the newly inaugurated India Trade Promotion Organisation complex at Delhi’s Pragati Maidan — to kick off discussions on hot-button issues. The […]

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By Girish Linganna The 19-ton statue of the revered Hindu god Shiva, standing as a symbol of India’s determination to influence the global order, will undoubtedly catch the attention of world leaders attending the Group of 20  Summit  in  New Delhi on September 9 and 10.. The Nataraja dancing figure, an impressive 28-foot (8.5 meters) […]

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By K R Sudhaman Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has reeled-out statistics on what the Indian economy would be in 2047. The projections she gave at the Global Fintech festival in Mumbai recently are quite interesting. She quoted a SBI research to say that India’s per capita income is to increase 7.5 times from Rs

By Dr Arun Mitra People of Manipur have a glorious history of resistance against the British imperialism. They struggled hand in hand with the Indian National Army (INA) led by Subhash Chandra Bose to free the country from the yolk of colonialism. But the state of Manipur is in crisis these days. Insensitivity of the

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remark on ‘Sanatan Dharm’ has been caught in controversy in no time. It reaches even to the top to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who clutched at it like a drowning man. Neither Udhayanidhi, nor PM Modi is a religious man. They are political species and bent […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (Secular) have agreed form an alliance in Karnataka for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP will have an understanding on four to five seats with JD(S) for the Parliamentary election, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Friday. “HD Deve Gowda traveled to Delhi this […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reacted to the Sanatana Dharma row for the first time saying the remarks of Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin “need a proper response”. In the informal meeting with the Council of Ministers today, PM Modi highlighted the need to respond to the Sanatana Dharma controversy. PM Modi’s response comes […]

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday hit out at the opposition over DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s comments on Sanatan Dharma, asking why Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ashok Gehlot are “silent” on the issue. Addressing a public meeting in Jaisalmer on the launch of the third round of the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra in […]

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Amid the ongoing controversy over it, DMK MP Andimuthu Raja said that ‘Sanatana Dharma’ should be compared to diseases that carry social stigma like HIV and leprosy. Speaking at an event against the Centre’s Vishwakarma Yojana in Chennai, Raja said that Udhyanaidhi Stalin’s comparison of Sanatana Dharma to malaria was “relatively mild.” “Sanatana and Vishwakarma schemes are […]

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PM Narendra Modi is likely to hold 15 bilateral meetings during G20 summit, sources said. Among those he will hold one-on-one discussions with include US President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron. Sources said PM Modi will hold bilateral meetings with the US president and the Bangladeshi prime minister on Friday at his official residence. […]

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India has “done the right thing in putting its sovereign and economic interests first while also appealing for peace,” former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said in an interview with The Indian Express, ahead of the mega G20 meet for which world leaders are converging in Delhi from today. At the same time, he has […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India approaches closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, the entire political scenario in the country seems to be taken hostage by political sensationalism. PM Narendra Modi and the RSS-BJP clan are the chief players tickling the imagination and dreams of those highly communalised Hindus who have become hungry for […]

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By Girish Linganna Home to around 520,000 people and famous for its sun-kissed atolls, the Maldives is said to be dizzyingly beautiful with underwater marine life that has complex kingdoms of corals scattered across its thousand-odd isles. The tourism website of this archipelagic country in South Asia proudly announces: ‘Swim with Whale Sharks During Your […]

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By K R Sudhaman The G20 summit on September 9-10 could not have come at any time better to highlight India’s great strides in digitalization, that has revolutionized payment system in the country and provided common man easy and quick solutions to his financial problems. With India taking the lead in becoming the voice of

By Subrata Majumder Enthralled by the Presidency of G 20, India heralds the new global leadership in geo-political and economic dynamism. A decade and half ago, it was the focus was on poverty, draught , unemployment , red tape and volatile economy. In 2014-15, India was the 10th largest economy. Now, it is 5th largest.

A day after Congress leaders spoke against a probable alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab for the Lok Sabha polls, state unit chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring added fuel to the fire on Wednesday, saying some MLAs and other leaders of AAP were keen to join the Congress as they were feeling slighted. […]

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HD Deve Gowda’s party, the JD(S), lost deposits in two-thirds of the seats it contested in the Karnataka Assembly elections earlier this year, paving the way for a Congress win in the state, data from an analytical report by the Election Commission (EC) shows. For long, the political wisdom from Karnataka elections was that the […]

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A Delhi court will hear on September 14 a criminal defamation complaint filed by Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal posted the matter for hearing after noting that Gehlot, who appeared before the court through video conference, has received all the documents demanded […]

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Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the ’India versus Bharat’ debate has been orchestrated by the BJP to divert attention from pressing issues such as price rise, communal tensions, border disputes and unemployment. The debate started after Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan shared on X, formerly Twitter, a G20 dinner invite in […]

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said that discrimination exists in our society, and reservations should continue as long as inequality persists. Speaking at an event in Nagpur, he also said the ‘Akhand Bharat’ or undivided India will become a reality before today’s youngsters become old, as those who separated from India […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday left for an almost week-long Europe tour during which he will hold meetings with European Union (EU) lawyers, students and the Indian diaspora, sources said. Gandhi will meet a group of EU lawyers in Brussels on September 7 and also hold a similar meeting in The Hague, they said. […]

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By P. Sudhir The   Narendra Modi regime is out to launch a twin assault on parliamentary democracy and federalism by implementing the slogan of `One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE).  The government has announced the setting up of an eight-member committee headed by former president, Ram Nath Kovind.  The terms of reference make it clear that […]

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By Sushil Kutty Earlier last week, just before the Mumbai meeting of the opposition grouping INDIA, talk switched to naming Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge ‘convener’ of INDIA. Then, for no apparent reason, all such talk went out the window. After a series of calculated Modi government leaks, the importance of “being Mallikarjun Kharge” appeared to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Humiliating defeat in Karnataka in May 2023   assembly   elections compelled the BJP leadership to give its electoral strategy a second thought for poll bound Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, and by the time the party readjusted its strategy, the nascent INDIA alliance increased its political challenges, necessitating further change in BJP’s […]

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By K Raveendran Saudi Arabia and Russia have surprised global oil markets by extending their voluntary production cuts until the end of the year, sending crude prices to 10-month highs, something that was least expected. Saudi Arabia announced it will extend the 1 million bpd voluntary cuts until December 2023. Russia followed suit, making

Amid controversy over G20 dinner invites purportedly sent on behalf of the ’President of Bharat’, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday asked a ”flustered” BJP whether it would change the name of Bharat if the opposition alliance INDIA rechristens itself ’Bharat’. The Congress on Tuesday alleged that an invite sent by the Narendra Modi […]

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An FIR was registered here against DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge for allegedly outraging religious feelings, police said on Wednesday. Stalin was booked for his call to eradicate Sanatan Dharma and Kharge for backing his remark, they said. The two were booked under sections 295 A (deliberate and […]

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A Delhi court has summoned Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for allegedly violating the law by getting herself enrolled in the voters list of two assembly constituencies. Metropolitan Magistrate Arjinder Kaur summoned Sunita Kejriwal as an accused on November 18 on an application moved by BJP leader Harish Khurana. The BJP […]

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Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s daughter Y S Sharmila may join the Congress and merge her YSR Telangana Party with it soon, sources said here on Monday. Sharmila, the sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, is likely to be present at the Congress’ mega rally near […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The newly formed Opposition alliance I.N.D.I.A. took a positive step last week in cementing a solid coalition in Mumbai. This decision was made during their third meeting, preceded by two previous conferences in Patna and Bengaluru. Their goal is to replicate the 1977 or 2004 scenario where the weaker Opposition won against […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA alliance has a wider political bandwidth compared to the NDA in terms of reach to electorate, various sections of people, number of significant regional and national political parties, spread across the geographical regions, and experience of not only winning elections but retaining their political dominance in their respective states. Though […]

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By Sushil Kutty Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s minister son Udhayanidhi Stalin has given the BJP reason to hike up its ‘Madrasi dhoti’. Udhayanidhi’s outbursts calling for the annihilation of Sanatana Dharma could not have come at a more opportune time for the saffron party which was under siege from the unity of purpose […]

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By Arun Srivastava The recent exercise to — ostensibly “improve the education system and make it rational” — undertaken by the Sangh Parivar, precisely the RSS, in West Bengal makes it obvious that the saffronistas are determined to completely destroy the modern mode of education in the state. Day before, the vice-president of the BJP […]

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With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attempting to push the Opposition’s newly formed Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) onto the backfoot over Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remark against Sanatana Dharma, the bloc seems to be making attempts to diffuse the escalating tension and find a way out of the soup. In a move to wriggle out […]

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