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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today challenged his arrest by the CBI in the Supreme Court. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, after hearing Mr Sisodia’s lawyer Abhishek Singhvi, asked why they did not go to the high court before coming to the Supreme Court directly. Singhvi cited the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Vinod Dua […]

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After facing a backlash from several Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders for missing out on Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s photograph from an ad, Congress on Sunday apologized calling it an “inexcusable slip up”. The full-page newspaper advertisement was for the 85th Congress Plenary Session in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur from February 24-26. BJP came down heavily on […]

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In a major setback for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Delhi High Court on Saturday stayed the re-election for six members of the Standing Committee of MCD which was scheduled for February 27. The court observed that Mayor Shelly Oberoi did not have the authority to declare such an election as “null and void” as […]

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Congress leader and former MP Udit Raj on Saturday defended the “Modi teri kabar khudegi (Modi your grave will be dug)” remark raised by his party colleagues at the Delhi airport tarmac recently and called it “political language”. He said it was a “rajnaitik kabar (political grave)” they were referring to. “It’s political language. When […]

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Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik’s car was allegedly attacked by supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress at Dinhata in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district on Saturday. The car’s windshield was cracked in the stone pelting allegedly by TMC supporters who also showed black flags to the minister. Pramanik said, “The police are acting as mere […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A bumper potato crop and a surplus from the previous year have led to a sharp fall in prices. And, it’s driving millions of Indian potato farmers to desperation in the main potato-growing states — Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. India is the world’s second-largest potato […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the Calcutta High Court direction on February 10 to Coal India to allow Indian National Mineworkers’ Federation (INMF) to participate in the meetings of the Joint Bipartite Committee on Coal Industry (JBCCI) is a victory to the trade union, this humiliating order does not seem to have any moral impact […]

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By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury In Bangladesh, unfortunately, journalism is becoming increasingly risky while a section of the state machinery has started seeing journalists as criminals and journalism as crime. Working journalists in Bangladesh are already in a state of extreme fear following introduction of ‘Digital Security Act’ which has been used as a key […]

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By Ben Chacko A year into the brutal war in Ukraine, we face a choice. We can continue to flood armaments into a deadlocked yet bloody conflict while prices soar and our governments claim there is no money for pay or public services. Or we can recognise that battlefield victory is a chimaera and that […]

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By Harihar Swarup For past 25 years, Rajasthan has oscillated between Ashok Gehlot and Vasundhara Raje. They are the most recognizable faces of their respective parties Congress and the BJP in the state, and are known to guard their turf zealously, even at the cost of defying their central leaderships. And now, both have rivals—younger […]

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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court this week pronounced a few home truths about the state of our nation. The ‘confession’ came by way of oral remarks in a petition seeking to debar persons against whom charges have been framed in serious offences from contesting elections. But the court’s observations, though making distressing reading, cannot […]

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By Sushil Kutty Only the best for the best. And as far as marquee political interviews go, that would be India-born Canadian Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At No.2 is ANI editor-in-chief Smitha Prakash, whose interview with EAM S. Jaishankar was the talk of the  airwaves for all of last […]

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By Arun Srivastava The central leadership of the BJP has been focusing its attention on the north eastern states of the country since then coming into power of the Party in 2014 and in its expansionist efforts, the main vehicle has been the RSS. In the present phase of the assembly polls to the three […]

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“Nobody can scare us, we are fearless” and will continue to protect democratic principles, Congress leader Pawan Khera said on Friday, a day after his arrest and interim bail in connection with an FIR over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Khera, who reached here to participate in the Congress’ 85th plenary session […]

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Ahead of the Kasba Peth and Chinchwad assembly bypolls in Pune district, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party gives a communal colour to the political discourse when it is not confident of winning. Talking to reporters here, the senior NCP leader said it is not new for the […]

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The AAP government on Friday asked officials to stop taking directives from Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena and report any such orders from him to their respective ministers, a move that may trigger a fresh tussle between the ruling party and the LG office. According to an official statement, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia […]

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The alleged inaction of the Punjab Police in two major law and order incidents in less than a month have fuelled the opposition’s charge against the Bhagwant Mann-led government, of “encouraging” radical elements in the state. The so-called supporters of the radical preacher, Amritpal Singh – who has openly been espousing the cause for Khalistan […]

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Bihar will witness a major show of strength between the ruling Mahagathbandhan and opposition NDA today as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP’s principal strategist, criss-cross the state as they campaign for their respective political fronts. Kumar will hold a joint rally of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ at Purnia in the […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress plenary session in Raipur which began on February 24 has to perform the historic task to frame its policy of alliance with the non-BJP opposition parties which are ready to take on the saffrons in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress is the biggest opposition party in the country […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Shashi Tharoor make it to the Congress Working Committee (CWC)? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Congress leaders and workers in Kerala even as the 85th plenary session of the Congress begins in Raipur   on February 24. While Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has not revealed his mind […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) who will henceforth remain in sole control of the AIADMK. It is a blow to rival O Panneerselvam (OPS), and a setback to the BJP’s Tamil Nadu ambitions. That said, the top court only upheld an order of the Madras High […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024, the BJP is in talks for alliance with the disgruntled JDU leader Upendra Kushwaha, the chief of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), Mukesh Sahani, as well as with the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader, Chirag Paswan. In this context BJP’s Bihar unit president, […]

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A political furore followed Congress leader Pawan Khera’s arrest at Delhi airport on Thursday, after he was deplaned from a flight to Raipur where he was going to attend the party’s plenary session. After its national spokesperson’s arrest, the Congress accused the government of reducing India’s democracy to “Hitlar-shahi” and “dictatorship”. Meanwhile, the ruling BJP shrugged off […]

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The Congress on Thursday said all preparations are in place for holding the CWC polls in case the steering committee decides in favour of having the elections for seats in the party’s top decision-making body. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the party president Mallikarjun Kharge-led steering committee will meet at 10 am on February […]

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“Only half the truth about the early morning swearing-in ceremony is out as yet. More will come. I will bring the entire truth out,” Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told reporters on Thursday. The statement assumes significance against the background of the recent statement by Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar about the hurried […]

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US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington is nominating former Mastercard Chief Executive Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, after its current chief David Malpass announced plans to step down early. The development lender has just started accepting candidate nominations in a process set to run until March 29, with the bank saying […]

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India abstained in the UN General Assembly on Thursday on a resolution that underscored the need to reach as soon as possible a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine in line with the principles of the UN Charter. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the draft resolution, put forward by Ukraine and its supporters, titled […]

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Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday asserted that he was “in no hurry” to replace his boss Nitish Kumar, rubbishing speculations that his RJD wanted to elbow out the ageing JD(U) leader. Yadav, who is in his early 30s, also deftly rebuffed queries from journalists as to whether he felt “cheated” by averments […]

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By Dr. Nilanjan Banik February 24, 2023 marks the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war. What seems to be a fight between David and Goliath is still continuing. The Russian armed force has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, the second largest fleet of ballistic missiles, and almost five times more military personnel in […]

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By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins Most of the corporate media hailed President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev this past weekend where he met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, whom the administration has said cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons or diplomatic negotiations, was told ahead of time, apparently, and was trusted by the […]

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By Arun Srivastava The exit of Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) some seven months ago has raised many questions about Indian politics.  It has shattered the hope of the BJP to consolidate the upper caste and backward castes votes in Bihar. Its strategy to marginalise Nitish […]

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By Sushil Kutty First thing in the morning Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi should do is to compare notes on what they would be saying on whatever that day demands so as to not end up contradicting each other like they were in two different universes. The latest was the […]

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In a set back to O Paneerselvam(OPS) in the cases related to AIDAMK leadership row, the Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed  the order of the Madras High Court division bench that had restored former chief minister E Palaniswami as AIADMK’s single leader. Palaniswami, or EPS, was elected as AIADMK’s interim general secretary, in the general […]

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A war of words broke out between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena over the law and order situation in the national capital on Twitter on Wednesday. Kejriwal said that the law and order situation in Delhi had deteriorated a lot in the last one year. However, LG Saxena said despite […]

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