Category: World

By Subrata Majumder Till Mr Shinzo Abe took Japanese Prime Minister-ship for the second term, India-Japan relation was confined to economic cooperation on bilateral issues. Given the bonhomie between the two Prime Ministers, the relations reached deeper on geopolitics to downplay China’s global influence. Many political and economic analysts observed the old approach of India-Japan […]

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Uddhav Thackeray may have lost the Shiv Sena name as well as the bow and arrow poll symbol to Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, but his morale-boosting speech outside his home Matoshree on Saturday was immediately compared to his father Balasaheb Thackeray’s address from October 1968 at Mumbai’s iconic Gateway of India. शिवसेना पक्षप्रमुख मा.श्री. […]

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A day after the Election Commission’s order on the Shiv Sena tussle, the Eknath Shinde camp on Saturday filed a caveat before the Supreme Court. The camp seeks that no orders shall be passed in case Uddhav Thackeray’s camp files a plea in the top court challenging the Election Commission’s order. The Election Commission of […]

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Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Saturday accepted the recommendation by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and fixed February 22 for a meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to hold the election for Mayor, deputy Mayor and members of the standing committee. The announcement came after the Supreme Court on Friday gave a 24-hour […]

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Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for questioning related to the Delhi liquor scam case on Sunday. Sisodia himself shared the development on Twitter saying the full power of central agencies was being used to against him. He further said that he will cooperate with the […]

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Dismissing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s charges related to MGNREGA, Union minister Giriraj Singh said on Saturday that both allocations for the scheme and asset creations under it during the Narendra Modi government were more than the previous UPA dispensation. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Saras Mela in Noida, Singh took strong exception to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak ILO’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations has sought latest data and information from the government of India regarding the concerns raised by national and international trade unions regarding violation of international labour standards’ obligations. The ILO’s 2023 report of the Committee of Experts on the Application […]

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By K Raveendran Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget has played truant with the gold trade, which is in the throes of a crisis for what the finance minister has not done rather than any act of commission in her last full-fledged budget of her current tenure. The gold trade had been looking for a cut in the […]

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By Bibek Sen Dr Paresh Chattopadhyay, arguably one of the most well known global Marx scholars, passed away somewhat unnoticed. In Canada recently, Marxist and left-liberal newspapers and magazines seem to have already forgotten his contribution to Marxian Studies. Not even EPW that carried scores of his pathbreaking papers on Marx published any obituary. Notwithstanding […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Come February 27, Meghalaya will witness a curious electoral battle. Erstwhile allies are taking on each other and possibility of horse trading run high after the results are announced on March 2. Other curiosities mark the Assembly election in the “Abode of the Clouds”. Espousing divergent political ideologies, Union home minister, Amit […]

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Supporters of rival factions led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray clashed over a Shiv Sena office at Dapoli in Ratnagiri district on Friday evening, police said. The incident took place hours after the Election Commission recognized the Shinde faction of the party as the real Shiv Sena. Shinde faction workers tried […]

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Hitting back at Uddhav Thackeray for calling him a “thief”, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday said he is making lakhs of people thieves and accused him of selling out the ideology of Bal Thackeray in 2019. The new war of words began after the Election Commission of India allotted the party name “Shiv Sena” […]

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The BJP’s national president, JP Nadda, has come down hard on party MPs for commenting on issues related to Sanatan Dharma, religious personalities and religion in general. Nadda has also asked MPs to take the presidential address, encapsulating the achievements of the Narendra Modi-led government over the years, to the public. He also told them […]

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Predicting that the 2024 general elections will be “exciting”, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said if the Opposition by and large coalesces around one candidate in every constituency to take on the BJP, then the ruling party is going to face a “very tough time”. In an interview with PTI, Tharoor said it would […]

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Tech giant Google is learnt to have sacked around 450 employees across various departments in India. The employees were reportedly informed of their termination through mail late at night on Thursday. The mail was sent by Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President of Google India, according to various news portals. It is not clear whether […]

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By D Raja On February 18, 1958, T T Krishnamachari (TTK), the then finance minister of the Union government, resigned from his cabinet position. What led to his resignation was the LIC-Mundhra Scam, in which the newly formed Life Insurance Corporation of India invested Rs 1.26 crores in the firms controlled by Haridas Mundhra, a […]

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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Who will be the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh? This question is being asked in political circles – both in the BJP and Congress. While this question is almost settled in BJP the issue is still open in Congress. While it is certain that the BJP will contest the next […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra After conquering the erstwhile Congress bastion of Amethi, the former constituency of Rahul Gandhi that he lost in 2019 Lok Sabha elections to Smriti Irani, the BJP now is solely focussing on Raebareli and started preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. Raebareli, the Lok Sabha constituency of […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a misleading statement the other day that is not expected from a responsible member of the union cabinet. Talking about the resource transfer to the states in the recent budget, she said that the magnitude of transfer had been raised “sharply”. Now, this statement, while creating the […]

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The Congress on Thursday rushed senior party leader from Kerala Ramesh Chennithala to assess the latest political situation in Maharashtra and report back immediately. The Maharashtra unit of the Congress is faction-ridden with PCC chief Nana Patole and legislative party leader Balasaheb Thorat at loggerheads with each other. Maharashtra in-charge HK Patil had also held […]

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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday virtually ruled out contesting the CWC polls if the party decides to hold them, saying he is not considering any further elections after having fought the AICC presidential polls and it is ”for others to step forward”. In an exclusive interview with PTI on the Congress’ upcoming plenary […]

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  In the run-up to the assembly elections in Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, the seizure of cash, liquor, drugs, precious metals and freebies has increased 20-fold from 2018, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Thursday. The data up to Wednesday shows that seizures worth Rs 147.84 crore have been done after the announcement […]

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Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be visiting the United Kingdom later this month and will also deliver a lecture at the Cambridge University’s business school. Sharing information about his visit to the UK, Gandhi said he is looking forward to visiting his alma mater and that he will be engaging with some of the […]

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The income tax “survey” at the BBC’s Delhi and Mumbai offices ended Thursday night after nearly three days of officials going through digital records and files. Some 10 employees, including the senior editors of Britain’s public broadcaster, returned home after spending three days at the office in central Delhi’s Kasturba Gandhi Marg. The income tax […]

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By Prakash Karat The recent appointment of six new governors by the president of India has revealed a lot about how the post of governor is viewed and cynically misused by the Modi government. The appointment of Justice S Abdul Nazeer, who had retired from the Supreme Court just two months ago, as the governor […]

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By Krishna Jha It was the continuing process of instability in the economy that was more obvious with CMIE data showing the country’s unemployment rate touching a four month high, at 7.9 percent in December, 2021, the urban employment rate rose from 8.21 in November 2021, to 9.3 percent in December 2021.  In December, 2022, […]

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By Arun Srivastava During the last one month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited poll-bound Karnataka three times, notwithstanding the top leadership’s consistent reiteration that the state leaders would design and spearhead the campaign. Union home minister Amit Shah is also not far behind PM Modi. Shah has visited Karnataka for no fewer than half […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Even as Nagaland goes to the state assembly election on February 27, with an eye on the polls, BJP has unfolded its game plan to pre-empt trouble in its sensitive area- eastern Nagaland. Party president, JP Nadda made some promises for its development while releasing the election manifesto. The reason of giving […]

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said there is a big drop in terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and a record number of tourists are visiting the Union Territory. Presenting the President’s Colour to the Haryana Police in recognition of its exceptional service, Shah also said the […]

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Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Wednesday flagged an “inordinate delay” by the leadership in taking action against those who “defied” then president Sonia Gandhi by not letting a legislature party meeting take place, and said the decision on the party’s affairs in Rajasthan must be taken soon if the trend of alternate governments has […]

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday said a “new tradition” of levelling allegations and counter-allegations being observed in Parliament and state Assemblies these days is not proper for the country’s constitutional democracy, and stressed the need for constructive debate and discussion in Houses to make democracy “lively and active”. Inaugurating a two-day orientation programme […]

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Karnataka Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Nalin Kumar Kateel on Wednesday sparked a row as he spoke about the 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan and called for the “killing” of all his ardent followers. Reiterating the common right-wing stand that considers Tipu Sultan a tyrant who forcefully converted thousands to Islam, Kateel said he […]

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Police have asked the authorities of the Bhadrakali temple at Thiruvananthapuram’s Vellayani to use multicoloured decorations for the temple’s festival instead of using only saffron. The temple’s festival committee, however, alleged that the police were implementing the agenda of the CPI(M)-led government. It has approached the Kerala High Court with the matter. “This is the […]

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Religion is at the center of a political controversy in Maharashtra now as the Opposition has hit out at the BJP-Eknath Shinde combine for an advertisement by the Assam government which claims that India’s sixth Jyotirlinga lies in the state. The advertisement has triggered opposition parties, with several political leaders from Congress, NCP and Shiv […]

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