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A day after the Punjab unit urged the Congress High Command to consult state units before deciding on support for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the Delhi ordinance issue, the senior leadership has sought a report from the state unit on the cases registered against the local leaders by the Bhagwant Mann government stressing that […]

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Senior AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday lashed out at the leadership of Congress’ Delhi unit accusing them of doing “politics of convenience” on the issue of the Centre’s ordinance on the Delhi services matter. Addressing a press conference here, Bharadwaj said that while the Delhi Congress is refusing to extend any support to the […]

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Asserting that power transfers never happen merely at the shake of hands, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday appealed to opposition parties to reconsider their decision to boycott the dedication of the new Parliament building scheduled on May 28, saying it is a “temple of democracy.” Addressing reporters in Chennai, she said 20 “aadeenams” (pontiffs) […]

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The BJP on Thursday alleged that the opposition parties have decided to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just because it has been built at his initiative. Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the new building is a symbol of India’s pride and […]

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By Sushil Kutty Twenty opposition parties will boycott the new Parliament building unveiling. They don’t want the honourable Prime Minister act the ‘Inauguration Minister’, which is a boringly familiar sight ever since 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modiji’s appetite for cutting

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, which has just completed two years of its tenure, has taken big strides on the development front. The most significant achievement has been the success in erasing

By Ashis Biswas Long nurtured international prejudices die hard, if at all: However, the unrelenting Bangladeshi diplomatic initiative of recent years, seeking global condemnation of the Pak –sponsored mass slaughter of innocent Bengali civilian population during the 1971 freedom struggle, is beginning to

By Girish Linganna Only about a month ago, on Monday, April 4 this year, a South African pilot named Rudolf Erasmus gathered applause from aviation experts for safely making an emergency landing after an extremely venomous Cape Cobra reared its head in the cockpit

Defending his ‘Pagla Modi’ comment, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury issued a clarification and said that he was just saying what the “sentiments” of public is and was just conveying how the people are reacting to PM’s decision of withdrawing Rs 2000 notes. While addressing a press conference on the issue of Rs 2000 notes, […]

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Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday said the orders and legislations enforced under the previous BJP regime like school textbook revision and anti-conversion laws, which are against the state’s interest, would be revised or withdrawn by the new Congress government after reviewing them. Amidst demands to overturn the “hijab ban” from various quarters, the Minister, […]

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The inauguration event of new Parliament building has snowballed into a controversy after 19 Opposition parties announced to boycott the ceremony and accused the Central government of ignoring President Droupadi Murmu by not inviting her to the function on May 28 in Delhi. The ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has condemned the boycott decision […]

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Amid all the noise over who should or should not inaugurate the new parliament building, a look into recent history will show that past heads of central and state governments have unveiled legislature house complexes in different states. At some of these events, the then prime minister was present along with chief ministers of the […]

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At the first special legislative session after the formation of the Congress government in Karnataka, MLAs set a unique precedent, much to the displeasure of pro-tem speaker R V Deshpande — some of the newly elected legislators took the oath in the name of God, Hindutva, their spiritual gurus, and two MLAs even took it […]

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By K R Sudhaman United Nations declared in Mid-April this year that India has become the most populous country overtaking China at 1.43 billion. Can it do the same with regard to GDP to become second largest economy in the world? On the face of it, the proposition seems difficult in the next

By K Raveendran The abrupt announcement by RBI, withdrawing all Rs 2,000 notes from circulation, seems to have much more than what meets the eye. Going by the explanations provided so far, it is increasingly clear that there is plenty of room for the regulator to be more forthcoming on the decision. The RBI is

By Sushil Kutty So, our Pradhan Sewak is the Australian Prime Minister’s ‘Boss’, just like Bruce Springsteen, who was ‘Born in America’. Narendra Damodardas Modi was born in Gujarat and Gujarat is no less full of business magnates as America is. But the question currently roiling minds is why is it that Prime Minister Narendra

By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is at a cross-road. The country needs to ensure the administration to be more sensitive and humane for which women’s spectacular success in UPSC is a good signal. The UPSC results show women at the top 4 ranks, while they grabbed 6 in top 10, and 14 in top 25 […]

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The Trinamool Congress (TMC), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Communist Party of India (Marxist) have announced to boycott the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28. Congress is also likely to join the boycott, according to sources. The boycott decision came after several Opposition parties demanded that […]

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Day after senior Congress leader M B Patil claimed that the chief ministership wouldn’t be split, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s deputy DK Shivakumar gave a crisp and straight response: “let people say whatever they want”. “There is an AICC general secretary and an AICC president, both of whom will take a call,” the deputy CM was […]

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The Aam Aadmi Party will soon launch its poll campaign in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where assembly elections are due later this year. Party sources said the poll campaigns will start with a “maha rally” in each of the three states. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is also the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) […]

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The political dispute surrounding the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued on Tuesday, as Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri criticized the Congress party for allegedly lacking “national spirit and sense of pride” in India’s progress. In response, the Opposition party accused Puri of attempting to “obfuscate and dissimulate.” During […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann will meet Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s residence in Mumbai on Wednesday. The two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders arrived here on Tuesday evening. Earlier on Tuesday, Kejriwal and Mann met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata as […]

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By Sushil Kutty Nobody can put a knife to the Congress party’s throat and compel it to stand with the Aam Aadmi Party against the Modi government’s ordinance which returned control of “services” – postings and transfers – to

By Girish Linganna The leaders of the QUAD group—Australia, India, Japan and the United States—who had gathered in Hiroshima for a Group of 7 summit, delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour at a

By Debabrata Biswas A 2024 presidential election featuring president Joe Biden against former president Donald Trump would be a “rematch from hell” – former Republican congressman Will Hard said – “The reality is two third Americans want somebody else”.

By Amiad Horowitz A new chapter in the modern history of the Middle East is beginning, and what’s most significant about it is the dwindling influence of the United States. Back in March, the People’s Republic of China helped

By Kalyani Shankar Dame Luck smiles at every Party at a particular moment. The 137-year Grand Old Congress Party, which has seen many ups and downs, is no exception. Winning a prosperous and significant Karnataka recently gave Congress that golden moment. If Congress wants to revive itself, it can’t sit on the laurels of recent

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Thailand’s Move Forward party just signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with coalition partners after achieving an unexpected victory in the May 14 general election. The MOU serves as a framework for the coalition government, outlining 23 key agendas that the parties agree to work on collectively. Pita Limjaroenrat, the leader […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Visit of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to the Pacific Island Nations drew international attention since several countries of the world, including China, had great strategic interests in the region. Indian move for consolidation and expansion of ties with the countries in the region sharing Indian roots and history […]

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By Anjan Roy The global financial circles are agog with speculation about the prospects of the US government defaulting on its payments. This is because the two major parties in America have so far failed to agree on raising the ceiling of US government borrowing. This is currently at $25 trillion. The Biden 

With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) gunning for the top leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, a political slugfest has broken out with the opposition party accusing the Bhagwant Mann government of a “witch hunt” to cover up its “failures” on the law and order front. The war of words was triggered after […]

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Siddaramaiah will be the Karnataka chief minister for five years, said senior Congress leader M B Patil, adding that there is no power sharing agreement. “Siddaramaiah will be the CM for five years. If there was a power sharing agreement, senior leaders would have informed. There is no 30-month power sharing proposal. If there was […]

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The AAP on Monday said it will organise a ‘maha rally’ on June 11 against the Centre’s “black ordinance” that effectively gives the lieutenant governor control over administrative services, negating a Supreme Court order in favour of the Kejriwal dispensation. This ordinance shows that the Centre will impose “dictatorial decisions” like this on the country, […]

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Amid questioning of senior NCP leader Jayant Patil by the Enforcement Directorate in Mumbai, party chief Sharad Pawar on Monday hinted that the action against some leaders could be the fallout of their refusal to meet “expectations” of the ruling dispensation. Pawar said they will suffer but will never deviate from the path they have […]

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