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By Dr. Arun Mitra   The video showing two women being paraded naked and molested by an unruly mob of males in Manipur has shocked the whole country. It has brought shame to us worldwide. This has also exposed hollowness in our society which takes pride in worshiping women as Devis. This has also brought […]

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  By Arun Srivastava   Conservatives lost two seats in the parliamentary by-elections in Britain this week. Conservative victory from Boris Johnson’s old set of Uxbridge and South Ruislip has come as a face saver for the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. With this victory Sunak could avoid a 3-0

By Robert Reich   It’s tempting to view the strike underway by Hollywood writers and TV and film actors against the studios as a war between wealthy Hollywood elites. But that’s not at all the case. In fact, what’s happening now in Hollywood is a microcosm of what’s happening across America in the emerging digital

By Nitya Chakraborty   If indications from the think-tanks closer to the BJP are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of advisers are processing a number of options to ensure that the newly set upfront of the anti-BJP parties – INDIA – does not get the advantage of the joint campaign

  By K Raveendran   A Supreme Court bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K Mishra are set to take up the crucial hearing of Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against the upholding of his conviction by the Gujarat High Court on August 4. The apex court has issued a notice to the

  By Gyan Pathak   Unemployment rate in India has been rising this month. As on July 21, unemployment rate on the basis of 30 days moving average rose to 8.4 per cent which is over 0.4 per cent more than the last month, according to the latest CMIE data, which indicates that the month […]

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By Sushil Kutty   Janata Dal (S) must have compulsions for wanting an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2024 general elections. For the record, the BJP, too, will not look askance at a tie-up with the Janata Dal (S). At this point in time, and right up to general elections 2024,

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said a massive wave of change prevails in Madhya Pradesh, where Assembly elections are due at the end of the year, and attacked the ruling BJP over a host of issues, including price rise. In her second visit to the state after June 12, she reiterated the […]

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The next meeting of the opposition alliance INDIA is likely to be held after August 15 in Mumbai, a leader of the bloc said Friday. An 11-member coordination committee is likely to be finalised in the Mumbai meeting, the third such after the Patna and Bengaluru meets. The alliance leaders are also planning to set […]

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Has the Opposition’s coming together as INDIA changed things in Bengal? If you heard TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s Martyrs’ Day rally speech on July 21, you would have certainly asked yourself this question. It was a welcome change for the Opposition bloc as Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee trained guns on the BJP and NDA, […]

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday sacked Rajendra Singh Gudha as minister of state for questioning his own government’s performance in handling the recent incidents of crimes against women in the state. Governor Kalraj Mishra accepted with immediate effect the recommendation of Gehlot to sack Gudha, said Raj Bhawan. This came hours after Gudha […]

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Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) on Friday called for the dismissal of the N Biren Singh government in Manipur after a video surfaced of two women being paraded naked in the ethnic strife-torn state. The opposition party in Assam held the Manipur government accountable for the incident and the ongoing unrest in the state. A video […]

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While 65 parties have joined either the BJP or the Congress-led coalition, there are at least 11 more with a total of 91 members in Parliament who have chosen to stay neutral for now in the high-stakes general elections next year. Three of the fence-sitters rule fairly large states – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha […]

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By Dr.Gyan Pathak   July 18, 2023 proved to be significant in recent political history of India, especially in the last decade since advent of BJP leader Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India in 2014. The opposition alliance I.N.D.I.A was formed with 26 political parties, while NDA was able to gather 38. All […]

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  By Sushil Kutty   There is always a chance that justices may ask to be recused from a case involving a Congress luminary because there is no saying which justices’ father, mother, uncle, grandfather, grandmother wasn’t affiliated with the hoary old party? Just like Justice B R Gavai who offered to recuse himself

By Rahil Nora Chopra   The latest political buzz is that the SamajwadiParty is likely to lead the Mahagathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. While talk of an alliance has been recurrent, the major difference this time is the interaction between the opposition parties in Bengaluru,which gave clear indications of Samajwadi Party (SP) and its allies – […]

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By Arun Srivastava   Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again mouthed empty shallow words before the people of India when he said, “Today, when I have come among you and am standing near this temple of democracy, then my heart is full of pain, full of anger. The incident that has come to the fore

Even though the government was ready for a discussion on Manipur, the opposition disrupted Parliament proceedings and did now allow the debate to take place, the BJP charged on Thursday as it questioned the timing of the surfacing of a May 4 video of two women being paraded naked in the northeastern state. The BJP […]

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In another setback to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Thursday, all the office bearers, including 7 MLAs of NCP from Nagaland, joined hands with his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s faction. Earlier this month, Ajit Pawar and eight other Nationalist Congress Party MLAs joined the Shinde government, effectively causing a division within […]

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Two days after a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, the ruling alliance is all set to take forward its plans for the Lok Sabha elections next year. The entire NDA has been divided into 10 clusters, sources said. “Ten union ministers have been made in charge […]

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The Congress on Thursday set up a 29-member Pradesh Election Committee for poll-bound Rajasthan with state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra named as its chairman. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, besides former Union minister Jitendra Singh are among its members. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the proposal for the […]

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By Sushil Kutty   Even his blind bhakts were getting worried. But, it’s okay. Finally, his laryngitis has spoken. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t lost his voice. And he hears the noises around him. By now even the EU Parliament must have heard the good news. Aside from the despicable one that Prime Minister Modi […]

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  By Dipankar Bhattacharya The successful second conclave of Opposition parties in Bengaluru and the emergence of a new coalition with the acronym INDIA have clearly rattled the Modi regime. The desperation to put up a parallel ‘alliance’ show in Delhi on the same day by discovering and manufacturing new parties from

  By Satyaki Chakraboty   Spain, an important member of the European Union is witnessing a tumultuous national elections next Sunday July 23 the outcome of which will decide whether this country which suffered fascism under President Franco, will once again be governed by a coalition consisting of the late dictator’s supporters. All opinion

By Dr. Nilanjan Banik   In 2009, the Swedish car company Volkswagen ran a unique ad campaign to promote its newly launched fuel-efficient car. They hired the ad agency DDB Stockholm and transformed the standard staircase of the Stockholm metro station into a ‘piano staircase’ which produced musical sounds when stepped in. People responded to

With the Congress forging an alliance with 25 other parties including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to form the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), the party’s Punjab unit finds itself in a quandary over the tie-up with the senior state leadership upset over the move as it is in direct confrontation with the Bhagwant […]

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The formation of a new opposition alliance called ‘INDIA’ at the national level is nothing but a new version of the East India Company, BJP leader and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has said. Those who looted the country for 60 years have now come together for power, she alleged, addressing reporters in Udupi on Wednesday. […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought to rebut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of his alliance with the RJD, underscoring his old friendship with the party’s founding president Lalu Prasad. Kumar was on Wednesday asked by journalists about Modi’s remarks at the NDA meeting on July 18 when the PM had spoken of “abuses […]

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In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday had a brief conversation with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha chamber. PM Modi reportedly asked Gandhi about her well-being after her flight from Bengaluru made an emergency landing on Tuesday. Just before the House met for the day, Modi took a round to […]

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The Congress strongly criticised the Centre after a 2-month-old video surfaced online showing two women being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur. In a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi-led government, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP of turning democracy and the rule of law into mobocracy in the violence-hit northeastern state. “Humanity […]

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  By Arun Srivastava   Belying the indictment of the BJP leaders that opposition unity was a mirage and a convergence of the corrupt leaders, the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties has delivered a new ideologically sound and adorable body, the INDIA, or the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance. On July 18, India witnessed

By Sushil Kutty   There are 64 squares on the chessboard and 26 INDIA parties will square up against 38 NDA parties in the 2024 general elections. But how many realized that 38+26 added up to ‘64’? Everybody was talking of how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA paled in front of the singularly “inclusive”

By Tirthankar Mitra   Be it Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha elections, political parties participate in them to add to their number and traction within the two Houses and beyond it. The choices of nominees of BJP and Trinamool Congress in the recent Rajya Sabha elections indicate that both the outfits of divergent ideologies have […]

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  By Girish Linganna   With effect from August 1, the Chinese capital has imposed restrictions on the export of gallium, a component that has long been an integral part of the U.S. military’s advanced defense systems and supply chain. An expert has claimed that although there may be some short-term disruption associated with