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The bill to replace the Centre’s controversial ordinance or special order for the control of services in Delhi is likely to be introduced in parliament with key changes, official sources have said. The draft bill, which will be tabled by Home Minister Amit Shah, has been circulated among the MPs. There are three major deletions […]

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Delhi Revenue Minister Atishi pulled up Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar on Saturday over laxity in the disbursal of flood relief amounts to affected families, stating that she was “shocked” when she found out that only 197 families had received the Rs 10,000 ex gratia relief. Amid the ongoing tussle between the AAP government and its […]

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin launched a tirade against Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accusing him of starting a “sin yatra” (pava yatirai in Tamil) from the pilgrim town of Rameswaram and claimed that the BJP is also perpetuating family rule. The Home Minister talks as if family rule is existing […]

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The 21-member multi-party delegation of MPs of the Opposition’s Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) alliance that is in Manipur for a two-day visit to assess the situation in the strife-torn state today met Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey and shared their experience. In a memorandum submitted to Governor Uikey, they requested her to restore peace […]

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  By Ashis Biswas   KOLKATA: In Assam, the job security of Bengali teachers working in many schools has been endangered by the circulation of widespread reports of organised corruption in the state Education sector of West Bengal. Many of these teachers—- local Assam media estimates put their number in hundreds— are degree holders from […]

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By Girish Linganna   India will launch the PSLV-C56 rocket on July 30, carrying the DS-SAR satellite from Singapore and six other co-passenger satellites. The launch is scheduled for 6:30 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).   All the satellites will be placed

By Prabir Purkayastha THE new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and the stockpiling of nuclear arsenals that can destroy the

By Gyan Pathak   As Rajasthan is approaching closer to Vidhan Sabha election later in 2023, political rhetoric is rising to higher pitches. CM Ashok Gehlot has clearly been playing a politics of human development to counter the BJP’s politics of communal hatred. Nevertheless, politics of development is always better than the politics

  By Sushil Kutty   Supreme Court Justice B R Gavai is busy, perhaps the busiest justice. Very recently he asked to be recused from Rahul Gandhi’s defamation/conviction case citing long-standing family links with the Congress. Now, he was part of the special bench that has given Director, Enforcement Directorate, Sanjay Kumar

By Tony Wood   With the death of Adolfo Gilly on July 4, 2023, the Latin American left didn’t just lose one of its most lucid Marxist thinkers. It also lost a man who directly experienced many of the region’s key events of the past seventy years, from the Bolivian Revolution of the

Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday reached out to various parties to break the deadlock in Parliament. The Rajya Sabha has been witnessing repeated disruptions ever since it met for the Monsoon session on July 20. The House has not been functioning normally amid an uproar caused by opposition members seeking […]

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BJP worker Shakuntala HS, who was arrested by the Bengaluru Police on Friday for allegedly making a derogatory remark against Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s family over the Udupi video case, was released on station bail this evening. Speaking about the Udupi video case, the BJP worker posted a tweet about Siddaramaiah’s family questioning him whether he […]

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A 21-member opposition delegation will visit Manipur today to assess the ground situation in the northeastern state where ethnic violence has been raging for nearly three months. The delegation includes Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Gaurav Gogoi of the Congress, Sushmita Dev of the Trinamool, DMK’s Kanimozhi, RJD’s Manoj Kumar Jha, and JDU chief Rajiv Ranjan […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday urged the police to develop a standard operating Procedure (SOP) for probing cases of ‘love-jihad’ in the state. The root cause of ‘love jihad’ is forceful religious conversions, Mr Sarma claimed in his address to the superintendents of police at a convention in Bongaigaon. “Besides, an act […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Imam Hussain today, saying his courage and commitment to the ideals of justice and human dignity are noteworthy. Muslims across the world, especially Shias, commemorate the death of Imam Hussain on this day in the battle of Karbala. We recall the sacrifices made by Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS). […]

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By Arun Srivastava   No one can guarantee that the Narendra Modi government will not reappear before the Supreme Court just ahead of September 15, the latest expiry date, requesting for yet another extension to the top cop of the country, the Enforcement Directorate chief S K Mishra, on the plea of protecting and preserving […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra   The Lok Sabha has seen a no-trust motion being filed against the Narendra Modi-led government by the Congress and BRS to apply pressure on the ruling BJP over the Manipur issue, and it was accepted by the Lower house. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said he would like to discuss […]

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By L S Herdenia   BHOPAL: “Ninety six hours – two visits by Home Minister Amit Shah” It is obvious Amit Shah does not want that 2018 is repeated in 2023 Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. That is why he is paying special attention to the state. He reached Bhopal in the late Wednesday evening, […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik ON April 3 this year, the minister of state for planning, Rao Inderjeet Singh, said in the Rajya Sabha that the government had no data after 2011-12 for estimating poverty, and therefore had no idea how many people had been lifted out of poverty since then. On July 18 however the UNDP

Opposition parties will hold the next meeting of their 26-member INDIA coalition in Mumbai on August 25 and 26, sources said on Thursday. The third meeting of the bloc will be hosted jointly by the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction, with support from the Congress, they said. This is the first […]

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The Trinamool Congress on Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on the 26-party opposition bloc’s name ‘INDIA’, asking why he was being so “negative”. During his address at a rally in Rajasthan earlier in the day, Modi derided opposition alliance INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance), citing names such as […]

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After meeting 39 National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parties on the completion of 25 years of the alliance on July 18, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will now meet 430 NDA MPs from July 31 to August 10 in Delhi. The meetings assume significance in the backdrop of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party

Amid the war between Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar for control over the Nationalist Congress Party, the Election Commission of India has asked both factions of the NCP to submit their responses by August 17 to stake a claim for the party, sources told CNN-News18. A mail was sent to both factions (Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar) […]

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The opposition, low on numbers, is not expecting to get the no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government passed. Its only aim, sources said, is to get Prime Minister to speak on Manipur — a demand that the government has so far brushed off. The government is willing to allow only a discussion and a […]

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With the government planning to bring a bill in Parliament soon to replace the Delhi services ordinance, the Congress on Wednesday issued a whip, asking all its Rajya Sabha MPs to be present in the House on Thursday as “very important issues will be taken up for discussion”. The Union Cabinet is learnt to have […]

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By P Sudhir   The events in Manipur, which dominated the national political situation over the past nearly three months, have brought out a startling feature of governance under Narendra Modi. The authoritarian regime is accountable to no one. Manipur has been in the grip of ethnic violence resulting in the deaths of over 150 […]

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By Sushil Kutty   Is it confidence or overconfidence? Narendra Modi has declared himself Prime Minister for the third time. But even the thought of a third straight term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for setting up more suicide helplines across India. Is there a way out, will the people of India be able

  By Satyaki Chakraborty   At long last, there is some ray of hope for the common people of the Central American nation Guatemala which will going for its run off national elections on August 20. In a surprise development, the centre left party Semilla candidate Bernardo Arevalo stood in the second position

  By Arun Srivastava   On July 11, just a fortnight back, the Supreme Court allowed Enforcement Directorate director S K Mishra to continue to hold the office till July 31 this year, notwithstanding holding that the extension given to Mishra was illegal as it violates the court’s 2021 order. This, had aroused apprehension in

A court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday granted some more time to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh to appear before it in response to a summons issued to them in a criminal defamation case. The court of chief metropolitan magistrate SJ Panchal rejected the AAP leaders’ exemption applications […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday told Home Minister Amit Shah that there is a world of difference between the words and actions of the sentiments expressed in his letter and also lamented over Prime Minister Narendra Modi ”equating” the opposition to terrorist groups. Responding to Shah’s letter, Kharge also urged Modi to come to […]

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The ruling NDA will have to lean on the support of Biju Janata Dal, YSR Congress Party, nominated members and Independents in the Rajya Sabha to ensure the passage of the bill to replace the Delhi Services Ordinance. While there is no official word on when the bill, which was approved by the Cabinet on […]

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A day after Speaker accepted no-confidence motion notice, all MPs belonging to Opposition’s I.N.D.I.A bloc will wear black clothes to Parliament on Thursday as a mark of protest against the government over the Manipur issue. All MPs belonging to the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) have been asked to come dressed in black to […]

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The Congress on Wednesday promised free power for farmers and waiver of their agri loans and pending electricity dues if the party forms the government after the year-end assembly elections. Addressing a press conference, which saw a brief power cut, MP Congress chief Kamal Nath alleged that the loan burden on farmers in the state […]

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