Category: World

By Kalyani Shankar After the recent Assembly results, all parties in the tiny State of Nagaland formed an Opposition- free government to get a share in the power pie. All the parties unconditionally supported the ruling alliance, and all parties were in the Government with no Opposition. It isn’t the first time Nagaland has chosen […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Capital Territory of Delhi is in the first leg of a colossal water crisis, almost a month earlier than the time it had hit last year, thanks to the unprecedented rise in temperatures in the country in February that broke all records kept since 1901. Water supply has been […]

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By Arun Srivastava Already made has been the strong demand on the floor of the Bihar assembly that the Enforcement Directorate [ED] and the Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] should be asked to seek permission from the respective state government before proceeding against anyone in the state, similar to the legal proviso enacted by the […]

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By Ashis Biswas After a tense truce, the war of words between American liberal lobbyists and the Bangladeshi ruling establishment over the Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus has returned in full fury. 50 Dhaka-based thinkers have strongly countered a recent statement issued in a leading American daily in favour of Dr. Yunus, calling it a […]

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Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday, demanding that certain remarks of Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Pralhad Joshi seeking Rahul Gandhi’s apology over his “democracy under attack” comments be expunged. In a letter to the speaker, the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha said […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address a rally of AAP in Bhopal on Tuesday as he kicks off the party’s campaign for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, due later this year. The rally, to be held at BHEL Dussehra Maidan in the state capital, is expected to be a show of strength by the […]

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Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress’ Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday levelled allegations against PM Modi, questioning the Pulwama incident. He said that if Modi is finished the country will be saved, however, if Modi stays then the country will be ruined. Randhawa said, “Our fight is not with […]

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s Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar has said the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra was splurging funds to take care of 40 Shiv Sena MLAs while 105 Bharatiya Janata Party legislators remain unhappy. Shinde became chief minister in June last year with the support of the BJP after his rebellion brought down the Uddhav […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The arrest of Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia last month by a federal agency, CBI, for alleged financial corruption connected with the change in the state’s liquor policy, has understandably upset a large section of opposition parties across the country. Last year, Delhi’s health minister Satyendra Jain was arrested by another […]

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By Anjan Roy A prominent private bank in the United States — the country’s sixteenth largest— has failed and this can have significant impact on the Indian technology industry. Silicon Valley Bank —better known by its acronym SVB— has gone into liquidation. This was one of the 20 largest banks in the USA and its […]

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By K R Sudhaman Whenever joblessness arises, parochial issues like migrant labour raise their ugly head in different parts of the country. Be it the attack on South Indians in Mumbai in the 1960s by the late Bal Thackeray-led Shiv Sainiks, or on UP bhaias and Biharis in 2000s. Migration has always taken place in […]

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By Sushil Kutty So, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘ek akela sab par bhari’! Does that make him ‘God’? The Creator’? Perhaps, the ‘One’ who makes the Sun rise? The Congress says any such thoughts in the Prime Minister’s head should be squelched, cleansed right away, because Modi is behind the “dead democracy” in India! […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a veiled swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks in the UK and said that questioning India’s democracy amounts to insulting the tradition and legacy of the country and also its citizens. Speaking at a public meeting in Karnataka ahead of the state assembly elections […]

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday defended the benefits reserved for the martyrs’ families under a state scheme saying that the BJP leaders are misguiding the people and maligning the image of Rajasthan. “The kind of package given by Rajasthan government to the war widows, be it of the Pulwama, Balakot, or Kargil, doesn’t […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated music composer MM Keeravaani, lyricist Chandrabose, and the entire team of global hit film RRR for its viral song ‘Naatu Naatu’ winning the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards. It has become the first Indian production to win an Oscar. Terming the win ‘exceptional’, the […]

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The U.S. dollar fell sharply on Monday as authorities stepped in to cap the fallout from the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, with investors hoping the Federal Reserve will take a less aggressive monetary path. The U.S. government announced several measures early on Monday Asian hours, and said all SVB customers will have access […]

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By Harihar Swarup On August 15, 2047, India will turn 100. A hundred years of giant strides to becoming the world’s largest democracy and an economic superpower. Morgan Stanley, one of the most influential companies in the world, said last year that three mega global trends, global off shoring, digitalization and energy transition, are setting […]

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By James M Dorsey In a surprise development, Saudi Arabia and Iran, together with China, announced that the two Middle Eastern nations were re-establishing diplomatic relations. The agreement was reached in a meeting in China of the two countries’ national security advisors. The agreement was a rare example of successful Chinese mediation in Middle Eastern […]

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By Ben Burgis The republican theory of freedom is the idea that the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination. It’s important for the Left talk about freedom in the first place. We see “freedom” invoked to defend everything from the right of corner gun shops to sell AR-15s without background checks to […]

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By Mark Gruenberg In an unprecedented decision, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the entire “safety culture” at Norfolk Southern Railroad, not just the individual NS crashes that landed it in hot water, notably the Feb. 3 massive and dangerous freight car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It was the first of two wrecks […]

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Bihar deputy chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav did not appear before CBI on Saturday due to his wife’s ill-health, official sources said. Tejashwi’s wife had to be hospitalised in Delhi after the raids a day ago. She is pregnant and fainted due to blood pressure issues after 12 hours of […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday hinted that he agreed with the contention of ally RJD that the recent crackdown on its president Lalu Prasad and his family members by the CBI and ED was “politically motivated”. This was in contrast to the stand he took in 2017 when he had wanted the ally […]

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Taking a serious note of the clashes and violence in the aftermath of the elections in BJP-ruled Tripura, a Left-Congress delegation on Saturday said it will raise the issue in Parliament to bring the matter to the knowledge of all countrymen. Members of the delegation, who had come under an attack of miscreants in Nehalchandranagar […]

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In a veiled attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks regarding microphones of the Opposition being turned off in Parliament, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday said there cannot be a bigger lie to set a narrative and pointed out that such a thing was done during the “black chapter” of Emergency, but […]

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BRS leader K Kavitha deposed before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for nine hours on Saturday for recording her statement in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy. The officials said the BRS leader has been summoned again on March 16 in connection with the case. The 44-year-old […]

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By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership going bonkers and hurling all kind of insinuation against Rahul Gandhi, even to the extent of implicitly accusing him of working against the interest of India, makes it explicit that the Congress leader has hit the bull’s eye. His mission to use his UK visit as an extension of […]

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By K Raveendran The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in principle opposed to all forms of subsidies, has favoured a gradual increase in subsidies by India on the use of renewable energy, while collecting higher taxes on emissions. IMF considers energy subsidies as wasteful expenditure and estimates that as much as 6.5 percent of […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into both workplace and domestic settings poses serious challenges to women’s opportunities for work, their position, status and treatment in the workplace. A joint team comprising the Inter-American Development (IDB), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation […]

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By Mahalakshmi Pavani The activism of the Indian judiciary in terms of formal recognition of live-in relationships has opened a vista of allied freedoms for live-in partners. However, the reality of women in such relations remains grim. The right to love stems from the hackneyed fundamental rights to life and freedom of expression guaranteed under […]

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A fact-finding team of MPs and MLAs from the Left parties and the Congress, which arrived here on Friday to look into post-poll violence in Tripura, was attacked in Sepahijala district, police said. No one of the eight-member team was injured in the attack in Nehalchandrangar, Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Law & Order, Jyotishman Das […]

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BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday sought termination of Rahul Gandhi’s membership from Lok Sabha while deposing before a parliamentary panel over his privilege notice against the Congress leader. Following Gandhi’s speech in the first part of the Budget Session, in which he commented on the Hindenburg-Adani issue, Dubey moved the privilege notice against him […]

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As various social media content of alleged attacks on migrant workers from Tamil Nadu have turned out to be fake, Chief Minister M K Stalin has alleged the “lies spread” regarding such assaults in the State was a fallout of his recent call for opposition unity to dislodge the ruling BJP at the Centre next […]

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K Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, appeared before Enforcement Directorate this morning in the Delhi liquor policy case. Manish Sisodia has been arrested in the same case. It is learnt that ED will question Kavitha in the presence of middleman Arun Ramachandran Pillai, who the agency […]

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The CBI has summoned Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav to appear for questioning in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam on Saturday, officials said. Yadav was earlier called for questioning on March 4 but he had not appeared before the CBI sleuths, following which a fresh date was given for Saturday, they said. The […]

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