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Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday slammed DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin for his comments against ’Sanatan Dharma’ and asked leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc to tender a public apology. Describing the INDIA alliance as a ”ghamandiya gathbandhan”, Thakur accused the bloc of stooping to ”politics of polarisation” to derive political mileage and claimed that […]

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Two days after his Sanatan Dharma comment, police has increased security to Tamil Nadu state minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s residence. At present, ten police personnel have been deployed at his official residence and ten at his residence in ECR. Security was beefed up after Udhayanidhi Stalin received death threats over his remarks to eradicate the regressive […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday constituted the party’s Central Election Committee with 16 members including himself and former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The development comes ahead of key assembly elections in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The panel discusses and finalises the list of candidates for any parliamentary or […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to understand why India is constantly falling prey to China if it is fully aware that China is heavily dumping exports, often “supplying goods at less than raw materials costs.” The question is pertinent in the context of India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s recent outburst as moderator […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India reaches closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, the issues and campaign points are undergoing intermittent change. Political moves and counter-moves of PM Narendra Modi and the INDIA alliance are the chief causes behind it, making the country’s future politically uncertain. If PM Modi finds it

By Sushil Kutty It could be his last interview. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi answered questions as if he is here to stay even if Indians have yet to consider whether he is fit for a third term or not with their votes in 2024. The interviewer gave him an easy time with

By Anjan Roy The strong GDP growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year is a hopeful augury, though there are some intriguing aspects in the detailed figures as well. The quarterly growth has hit 7.8% which in itself is remarkable for a large economy. At the same time, one swallow does not […]

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The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Sunday attacked DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his remarks against ’Sanatan Dharma’ and asked him to refrain from making such statements as they can lead to “serious consequences”. In a statement, VHP working president Alok Kumar also asked the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government to clarify if it concurs with Udhayanidhi […]

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Udhayanidhi Stalin, who serves as a Minister in the Tamil Nadu government led by his father and Chief Minister MK Stalin, has been booked by Delhi police for his controversial remark on ‘Santana Dharma’. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader sparked a row on Saturday after he compared Sanatana Dharma with diseases like dengue and malaria and said it is against the […]

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Amid speculations of ‘Operation Hasta’ going on in Karnataka to woo BJP leaders to join the Congress, former BJP Minister BC Patil and ex-MLA Narasimha Naik met Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar during the birthday party of noted Kannada film actor Sudeep Sanjeev, who is popularly known as ‘Kiccha’ Sudeep. However, Patil and Naik on […]

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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said before implementing ‘One Nation, One Election’ in the country, the BJP government should carry out an experiment by holding the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls this time. The Centre on Friday constituted a committee led by former president Ram Nath Kovind to […]

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The stage is set for the first electoral showdown between the BJP and an INDIA bloc constituent in Uttar Pradesh, with leaders of both sides going all out to drum up support for their candidates for the September 5 Ghosi assembly bypoll. The Congress and the Left parties have not only extended support to the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to keep people guessing. In fact, he thoroughly enjoys the experience whether all the people like it or not; for, there is always a comfortable majority which votes for him and the quirks of electoral democracy ensure he remains in power. Three decades of never gracing

By Arun Srivastava West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to accept Nitish Kumar as the convener of the opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc, while also expressing aggressive hostility to a caste census, has not gone down well among the backward caste people as well as Dalit and OBC leaders of Bihar and Jharkhand. Notwithstanding their political […]

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By Harihar Swarup The most significant political development this year is not the formation of the Indian Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), a congregation of forces opposed to the BJP. It isn’t the tentative alliance that BJP is seeking to build with its older and newer partners. And it it’s the G20 summit, which is

By Tirthankar Mitra A self effacing man with a deep commitment to egalitarianism who worked as a welding apprentice in Indian Railways, Shailendra would have been just another man in a crowd whose birth and passing do not deserve a mention had he not given vent to his penchant for poetry which Hindi screen

Opposition bloc INDIA on Saturday made some additional appointments in some of the committees set up at its Mumbai meeting to get battle-ready for the Lok Sabha polls. The bloc had formed a 14-member coordination-cum-election strategy committee comprising members of various parties. The opposition alliance had also announced a campaign committee with Congress’ Gurdeep Singh […]

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Tamil Nadu Sports Minister and MK Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sunday sparked a massive political row after his controversial comments on ‘ending Sanatan Dharma.” Reacting to his remarks, Ram Janmabhoomi chief priest Acharya Satyendra Das said that the leader does not understand the meaning of Sanatan Dharma. Talking to ANI, Acharya Satyendra Das said, “Sanatana Dharma’ cannot […]

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Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday demanded the Centre provide reservations to Marathas and OBCs in the special session of Parliament convened later this month, a day after violence erupted in Maharashtra’s Jalna over the Maratha quota demand. Addressing Shiv Sena (UBT) workers here, Thackeray slammed the ”government brutality” of police baton charging […]

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The government on Saturday notified an eight-member high-level committee to examine and make recommendations at the earliest on the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies, municipalities, and panchayats. The committee, headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind, have Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan […]

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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at the BJP over the ‘one nation, one election’ move, alleging that like every other issue “sponsored by the BJP”, this seems to be “pre-determined and pre-packaged”. His attack came after the government notified an eight-member high-level committee to examine and make recommendations at the earliest […]

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By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s dramatic moves to convene an out of turn parliament session later this month and set up a panel headed by former President Ramnath Kovind to study the possibility of introducing one nation policy may be part of a ‘shock and awe’ policy rather than any real intent to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though, at the conclusion of the third INDIA alliance meet in Mumbai on September 1, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has promised ‘a clear set of ideas’ to involve ‘the farmers, and the workers’ in the progress of this country, what actually needed is to devise an appropriate campaign programme keeping workers […]

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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: There is near exodus from BJP to join the Congress. Among them who are leaving BJP include sitting MLAs and important party leaders. Significantly those who are leaving are listing two factors – rampant corruption and being ignored because of the preference being given to Scindia followers. In a blow […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW:  The entire country is watching the first electoral battle between NDA and the just formed INDIA being fought in Ghosi assembly by-election in Uttar Pradesh. This is direct fight between BJP candidate Dara Singh Chauhan who belongs to OBC and supported by NDA factions and Sudhkar Singh of Samajwadi

Leaders of at least 28 opposition parties under the INDIA bloc concluded their third meeting in Mumbai and announced the resolutions and decisions jointly undertaken on Friday. In a joint press conference attended by Uddhav Thackeray, Aditya Thackeray, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Sharad Pawar and others, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi asserted that seat sharing […]

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The BJP on Friday took a jibe at the Opposition parties’ INDIA bloc meeting, saying its only takeaway is that they have “formally and politically” accepted their give-and-take principle. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said in the third meeting of the “so-called opposition […]

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday defended the `one nation, one election’ proposal, stating that it would save public money. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting of the BJP-led NDA here, he said the Opposition’s INDIA alliance was made up of those who are full of hatred for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and […]

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At least a dozen police officers were injured after a protest for the Maratha reservation in the Jalna district of central Maharashtra turned violent on Friday as protestors resorted to stone-pelting. To disperse the crowd, police used lathi-charge and fired teargas shells at a mob at Antarwali Sarathi village on Dhule-Solapur road. Villagers also claimed […]

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Singapore’s former Indian-origin Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected President on Friday, comfortably securing victory in the city-state’s first contested vote for the largely ceremonial position in more than a decade. “My fellow Singaporeans, I am truly humbled by the strong endorsement you have given me in our nation’s presidential election. My fellow candidates […]

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Opposition leaders on Friday slammed the government’s move to set up a committee to study feasibility of ”one nation, one election”, alleging it would pose a threat to the federal structure of the country. CPI leader D Raja said Prime Minister Narendra Modi always talks about India being mother of democracy and then how can […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ghosi assembly bypoll has signalled a significant change in Uttar Pradesh politics. Congress joined Samajwadi Party’s election campaign, the first of its kind after the formation of INDIA opposition alliance. The election is scheduled for September 5, and it is the firs one-on-on electoral battle in the state between the opposition […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik At the Johannesburg summit of the BRICS countries, it was decided to expand the group beyond its original five, namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to include six more countries. These are: Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. These six it appears were chosen out

By Sushil Kutty In January 2019 — ahead of the May 2019 general elections — a ‘Mood of the Nation’ survey suggested that the BJP could be electorally wiped out in Uttar Pradesh if the Congress joined the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party in an alliance. It said the BJP could lose a quarter of