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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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By Arun Srivastava There is a famous Sanskrit adage, “Ati Barjayet”; meaning excess is forbidden. But looking at the practices and politics of Narendra Modi it could safely be construed, though he claims to follow principles of Sanatan Dharma and Hindutva that it does not apply to him. Else instead of pursuing wisdom of political […]

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By D. Raja As people all over the world observe and celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, the CPI extends its solidarity to all who remain committed to the fight against patriarchy and steadfastly uphold gender equality. The International Women’s Day celebration started officially in Soviet Russia in 1917 itself after women gained suffrage. […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The body language of the Leader of the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh assembly, Akhilesh Yadav during recently concluded budget session of UP Legislature made it clear that Samajwadi Party was very serious to put up challenge to ruling BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Akhilesh Yadav launched attack on Yogi government […]

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By Prabir Purkayastha I met Prof Thomas Kailath seven years back in Delhi, where he talked about how India was on par if not leading, with countries like China in science and technology in the 90s but falling rapidly behind China today with its much bigger investments. Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the […]

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Last Updated: March 10, 2023, 10:51 IST The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought ten-day custody of former Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia in connection with its money laundering probe in the Delhi liquor scam case. A Delhi court has directed that Sisodia be produced at 2 pm after the ED moved a […]

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The BJP on Thursday hit out at nine opposition leaders who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the alleged misuse of investigation agencies CBI and ED, saying that they are involved in corruption and making false charges against these agencies to save themselves. Recently, the opposition leaders, including Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief and […]

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Two well-known, articulate MLAs in their early forties of the Aam Aadmi Party, Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, have been sworn into the Arvind Kejriwal cabinet as ministers, two days after the President of India accepted the resignations of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and former minister Satyendar Jain. Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj took their […]

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K Kavitha, senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), is holding a hunger strike in New Delhi today to demand the introduction of Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament. Leaders of several parties, including Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, National Conference, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, are expected to participate in Ms Kavitha’s […]

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The Congress on Thursday hit out at Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for his criticism of Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the UK, saying that the Rajya Sabha chairman is an umpire and cannot be a cheerleader for any ruling dispensation. The Congress’ reaction came after Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Dhankhar attacked Mr Gandhi for […]

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By Prakash Karat The orgy of violence unleashed in Tripura after the assembly election results were announced on March 2 was an act foretold once the BJP got a majority, albeit a narrow one.  As of March 6, around a thousand incidents of attacks and violence by the BJP gangs took place all over the […]

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By Binoy Viswam Tripura is once again thrown into the pool of disarray. The innocent people of the north-eastern state are experiencing what the BJP has in store for them, once back in power. For a short span of time during the election campaign the people there hoped to breathe peacefully. They expected the BJP […]

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By Sushil Kutty Children taught how to cross a thoroughfare are told to stop, look right and then left, and then, when there’s no traffic coming from either right or left, stride forth across to the other side of the road. Of course, there are the ‘zebra crossings’, but even with those, better sense says […]

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By K R Sudhaman The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party may be upset by the utterances of noted economist and former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan that India may be heading towards Hindu rate of economic growth meaning the economy is drifting towards an era of low growth. But this is something worth pondering over by the […]

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Ahead of the second leg of the Parliament’s budget session that will begin on March 13, the Trinamool Congress led by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has chalked out their strategy to corner the BJP government. The Chief Minister and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee held an informal meeting with MPs Sudip Banerjee and Derek O’Brien […]

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In a veiled attack at the BJP, former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, who is behind bars in connection with the excise policy scam case, on Wednesday said they are sending those people to jail who has opened schools in the country. “Till today I had heard that when schools open in the country, jails are closed; […]

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Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday appointed eight members of his personal staff on 20 committees under the ambit of the Upper House Secretariat. According to the order issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, eight members of Dhankhar’s personal staff, including four posted in the Vice-President Secretariat, have been appointed on the 20 committees. […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian PM Anthony Albanese were greeted with loud cheering and applause as they took a lap of honour at a stadium in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad today before watching a cricket match together. The two Prime Ministers waved at the crowds as they took a round of the Narendra Modi stadium in […]

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The ties between AIADMK and the BJP have slid to an all-time low, with the BJP workers in Tuticorin burning photos of AIADMK chief E Palaniswami, accusing him of violating “coalition dharma’. Last week, five BJP leaders had joined the AIADMK – among them was the BJP’s state IT wing chief CRT Nirmal Kumar. On […]

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By Dr Gyan Pathak Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming economies and promising new opportunities for productivity, growth, and resilience. Countries across the world are also responding with national AI strategies to capitalize on these transformations. However, no country today has sufficient data on, or a targeted plan for, national AI compute capacity. This polity blind-spot […]

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By Ria Chakrabarty On February 21, Seattle made history. After hearing hours of testimony for and against a bill by councilmember Kshama Sawant, the Seattle City Council voted 6–1 to pass her bill and formally ban caste discrimination in the city. This was the first time an American city has explicitly made caste a protected […]

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Surveys indicate that Congress is projected to win over 140 out of a total of 224 seats in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly polls, party state unit president DK Shivakumar claimed on Tuesday, as he also suggested that several sitting legislators of the ruling BJP will be joining the party in the coming days. He was […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party has already started various campaigns in the country in its preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The party is targeting voters from every section of society. As part of this, the BJP will now start a ‘Ghar Ghar Chalo’ outreach programme for the scheduled caste population of the country. To […]

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The BJP on Tuesday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for his criticism of the state of democracy in India and the RSS from Britain, claiming it is its clear conviction that he is completely in the grip of “Maoist thought process through his minions” and also “anarchist elements”. Addressing a press conference, former Union minister […]

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking for the unconditional release of senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia, arrested in the alleged excise scam of Delhi. The move is a shift from the stand of its ally Congress, which had taken a nuanced view, slamming what it […]

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A Bigg Boss participant has accused Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s personal assistant (PA) of threatening her with death. Sandeep Singh was charged after Bigg Boss-16 top-5 finalist Archana Gautam’s father filed a complaint that his daughter was “threatened with death”. “Casteist words were also spoken,” he alleged in his complaint filed at Partapur police […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The just released Assembly poll results in three northeastern states – Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura are seen as semi-finals before next year’s parliamentary elections when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a third consecutive term at the Centre. There are 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the region. As they play the see-saw […]

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By Anjan Roy In a significant move, at the on-going China’s National People’s Congress, which is a gathering of legislators, the top leaders of the Communist Party  of  China  have set a pared down growth target for China at only 5% for the current year. NPC is meeting in Beijing is weeklong. This is a […]

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By Arun Srivastava Giving benefit of doubt to the BJP leaders for their act of conspiring the worst nature of dirty strategy against the Tamil Nadu and Bihar governments, alleging that workers from other States are being attacked in Tamil Nadu will be more than committing hara-kiri. While the BJP’s Bihar unit chief Sanjay Jaiswal […]

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By Sushil Kutty Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar’s optimism knows no bounds, It was his optimism which made him break from the Congress and form the Nationalist Congress Party. Then, to cut a long story short, it was his optimism which made the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the same optimism which made the NCP […]

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A day after CBI sleuths reached Rabri Devi’s home for questioning in connection to the land for job scam, the officers of the central agency are likely to question Lalu Yadav over the case. The CBI on Monday issued a notice to her husband and former railway minister Lalu Prasad in connection with the further probe […]

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The Congress on Monday took a swipe at the BJP for supporting a government led by NPP chief Conrad Sangma in Meghalaya, saying that a few days back his dispensation was considered the ”most corrupt” by the top BJP leadership and now ”in a fit of amnesia”, the party is joining hands with him. The […]

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