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After the deliberation at the Congress’s big opposition meeting in Bengaluru, the leaders of key opposition parties decided to call their alliance ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge announced. The Congress President also said that an 11-member committee will be set up for coordination and the next meeting of the I.N.D.I.A […]

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The Congress on Wednesday hit back at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who took a swipe at the opposition coalition with his remarks that the British had named the country India, saying he should tell that to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who gave names such as ‘Skill India’, ‘Start-up India’ and ‘Digital India’ for […]

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As the Bengaluru Opposition meeting concluded on Tuesday, the National Democratic Alliance meeting (NDA) came together in Delhi for a show of strength. PM Modi, BJP president JP Nadda reached the venue. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde welcomed the leaders, from the BJP as well as allies, who arrived at […]

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The BJP in Bihar on Tuesday accused the Congress of putting up posters in Bengaluru defaming Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The Congress hit back saying it was the BJP which indulged in ”posterbaazi” and claimed that the saffron party, which had secured a brute majority in last Lok Sabha polls despite a small vote share, […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing a mega 39-party NDA meeting in Delhi last evening, hit out at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge over his “not even heard of many parties” remark. “No party is big or small in NDA,” the Prime Minister said. “NDA is not an alliance of compulsion but of contribution. No party is […]

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By Dr.Gyan Pathak   Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends 80 MPs in Lok Sabha, the largest number across the states, has lately been witnessing much increased political activities. Double anti-incumbency seems to be working against the double-engine government under PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and CM Yogi Aditya Nath in the

By Sushil Kutty   Maharashtra politics is strange and is getting weirder by the day. Ask anybody in the streets of Mumbai. Pune or Nagpur. Opinion will not change even in Sambhaji Nagar. Ask political analysts and they’ll say Maharashtra’s politicians are to blame. Take, for instance, the powerful Pawars, Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar, […]

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By Anjan Roy India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector. India has agreed on local currency invoicing of trade […]

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By K Raveendran   ‘Pee-gate’, standing for the incident of a top executive of a multinational urinating on a co-passenger in an inumbrated state, was a new year sensation. The man, Shankar Mishra, was banned from flying for four months while Air India, the operator of the New York-Delhi flight on which the clumsy

The opposition meeting in Bengaluru on July 17-18 is expected to be more critical and important than the Patna session as the success of the second edition will depend on the parties creating a foolproof plan to tackle their common goal of “BJP harao, Modi hatao”, senior Congress leaders told News18 on Monday. With the […]

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Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday termed as “premature” talks of an electoral tie-up between his party and the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections next year. He also attacked the Congress over the meeting of Opposition leaders here, saying it’s trying to project it as a great achievement while the party-ruled […]

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With several opposition parties holding a meeting aimed at forging unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday ruled out any alliance with the TMC in West Bengal and said that secular parties along with the Left and the Congress will take on the BJP as well as the TMC […]

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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday praised the Narendra Modi government’s success in making G20 a “buzzword”, but expressed concerns over the country’s China policy beyond the ban on Chinese apps. Speaking at the CNN-News18 Delhi Town Hall, the Thiruvananthapuram MP opined that the united Opposition must come out with a Common Minimum Programme […]

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Former Kerala chief minister and Congress Working Committee member Oommen Chandy died in a hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday morning. He was 79. Chandy was undergoing treatment in a Bengaluru hospital, where he died at around 4.30 am, his son Chandy Oommen announced through a Facebook post. The body is being flown to Thiruvananthapuram, where […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee India has been put in a peculiar situation by Russian oil exporters as they prefer Yuan payment against the purchase of Russian crude by Indian importers. Of late, the latter are believed to be spending billions of dollars in buying Chinese Yuan to pay for Russian imports. This is despite the India […]

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By Kalyani Shankar As we approach the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling NDA and the combined opposition prepare for the fierce battle ahead. The opposition is holding strategy meetings in Bengaluru its second, on July 18, while the NDA is meeting in Delhi on the same day to showcase its strength.

By Sushi Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be at the NDA meet on July 18. Modi wants to revive the comatose NDA as an alternative to the Opposition’s ‘Mahagathbandhan’, which is shaping up nice and friendly despite the blips and glitches. The BJP’s alliance partners in the NDA had helped Modi become Prime

By Arun Srivastava The erratic actions of the BJP leadership, especially in three states, Maharashtra, Bihar and Bengal, makes it explicit that the threat of losing the 2024 Lok Sabha elections has turned it so desperate that would not mind going to any extent and abusing the state machinery for retrieving its lost grounds in […]

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The Opposition parties are all set to meet in Karnataka’s Bengaluru today and tomorrow to chalk out a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The invites for the meeting — conveyed by Congress — were sent out by the party’s president Mallikarjun Kharge. He invited all […]

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Ending weeks of suspense, the Aam Aadmi Party finally decided to attend the second meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18 as the Congress declared it was against the Delhi ordinance. One of its key demands met, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party made this decision after a crucial meeting of its political […]

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The BJP, which single-handedly won 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by securing nearly 38 per cent votes, has set a target of winning 350 plus seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. For this, the party is working on several fronts simultaneously. Besides the seats on which it has a stronghold, the […]

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The NCP is now split into two after Ajit Pawar’s rebellion, who recently decided to join the NDA-led Maharashtra government with some MLAs. Till he became the second deputy chief minister of the state, Ajit was the leader of the opposition in the legislative assembly. Now, this post will go to the Congress as they […]

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  Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who along with several loyalist MLAs recently rebelled against his uncle and Nationalist Congress Party patriarch Sharad Pawar to join the BJP-led government in Maharashtra, paid a surprise visit to the latter along with all NCP ministers a day before the commencement of monsoon session of the Maharashtra […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Meta’s groundbreaking ‘Threads’ caused a seismic shift in social media, generating unparalleled excitement. Positioned as the ultimate challenger to Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg disrupted the online networking landscape by introducing Threads which is increasingly perceived as a clone of Twitter. This clash between industry giants has triggered a heated discussion among internet […]

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By K Raveendran The government has announced plans to monetise the huge domestic gold holdings from time to time, each subsequent version seeking to correct the drawbacks with the previous plans. But the hard fact is that none of these achieved even a fraction of the desired results. Indian households hold an enormous amount of […]

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By James M Dorsey A recent 27-year, four million-tonne liquefied natural gas (LNG) Qatari export agreement with China, the longest in gas export history, highlights different Gulf state approaches to navigating big power rivalry between the People’s Republic and the United States. Widely seen as giving China a grip on Qatari gas, the deal is […]

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By Dr Arun Mira Much is being talked about making 100 cities throughout the country as smart cities. Focus of smartness is on digitalization, beautification, high rise buildings, big flyovers, wide spaces for cars to run on the roads, luxury parks etc. Little is being said about issues that relate to the needs of the

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday approached the Supreme Court seeking a stay on his conviction in the 2019 defamation case. In the plea, Gandhi challenges the Gujarat High Court’s order last week, requested the apex court to suspend his conviction and grant him relief in the Purnesh Modi defamation case. Legal sources told CNN-News18 […]

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Delhi Cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Saturday alleged that floods in the city were caused by the BJP-led Centre and Haryana government wilfully releasing water towards the national capital. Addressing a press conference here, Bharadwaj said it has not rained in Delhi in the last 3-4 days, yet still, the water level in Yamuna reached […]

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The Opposition, specially the Congress, is watching the developments in the NDA camp very closely as the BJP looks to find new alliances. The Congress, which hosts the Opposition meeting in Bengaluru next week, will ensure that its old friends and new potential allies remain together. There are two important developments to substantiate this. One, […]

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The Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted on Sunday that the OP Rajbhar-led Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party or SBSP has rejoined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He tweeted, “Met Shri @oprajbhar ji in Delhi and decided to join the NDA alliance led by Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji. I […]

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Central Bank of UAE (CBUAE) yesterday signed two agreements in Abu Dhabi to establish a framework for cross-border transactions in local currencies and interlinking of payment and messaging systems. The agreements were exchanged between the two governors, in the presence of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and […]

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By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success in concluding high valued defence deals during his visit to France on July 13 and 14 has led to the escalation of fighting between the United States and France over the sale of high tech defence equipment to the burgeoning Indian market. According to Indian military

By Harihar Swarup To understand the BJP’s rapid political moves across India, think back to 1996. That year sagging under the weight of a raft of corruption, scandals and internal defections, the incumbent Congress went to polls weakened. This allowed the BJP to vault into pole position, becoming for the first time the