Category: World

By K Raveendran It is no joke that under Indian laws anyone can be hauled up at any time, anywhere, because there are some laws that can be slapped against anyone who the authorities are not well-disposed towards. In fact, these laws have become a tool of repression and reprisal at the hands of the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India have been listening PM Narendra Modi and his supporters claiming the “great work done” for the workforce in the country, especially during the pandemic. However, the revelation made by Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav in the Lok Sabha on February 13 is quite shocking. A total of 1.12 lakh daily […]

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By Sushil Kutty Why is it that when certain things (for want of a better word) are constitutionally set and there cannot be two ways about it – also no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’- that such matters are taken to court and the courts, as if this was the first time such a matter had come […]

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By James M Dorsey This could be India’s decade if it plays its cards right. The sub-continental state is poised to be the next China, even if its path will likely be less straightforward than that of China and more of a Leninist two steps forward, one step backwards. Leaving aside the multiple domestic issues […]

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BJP Karnataka president Nalin Kumar Kateel during his speech at the ‘Vijay Sankalpa Yatra’ in Koppal district has not only spoken about Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan but also attacked former chief minister Siddaramaiah by calling him a “broker” who was previously striking deals with the JDS and now with the Congress to become the CM […]

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has hit out at Governor RN Ravi over the delay in according assent to the Bill to ban online gambling and regulate online gaming in the state. The state assembly had approved an Ordinance for ban after an expert committee recommended the action to prevent the ill-effects of the […]

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n Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday sparked a fresh row by claiming that a “blatant intelligence failure” was responsible for the death of 40 CRPF personnel in the Pulwama terror attack of 2019. A tweet by Singh on the fourth anniversary of the suicide bombing of a CRPF convoy evoked a sharp reaction […]

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Around 60 locations across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were raided by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a massive crackdown against suspects having links with the banned terror outfit ISIS, sources have said. Searches are being carried out in connection with last year’s blasts in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore and Karnataka’s Mangaluru, they said. The October […]

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By Kalyani Shankar There could be a musical chair this year with nine states going for elections. It will be a trailer and the semi-final before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The results will show whether the BJP continues to sway the voters or the Congress-led Opposition will defeat the BJP in the upcoming elections. […]

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By Sushil Kutty It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine’s Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at multiple locations. Recall that the Modi […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world back on track for 2030 SDG […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, with only 48 hours before the scheduled Assembly polls on February 16, the state Congress unit has been left to fend for itself by the party high command in carrying out its pre poll campaign. Despite earlier assurances by local Congress leaders, neither Mr Rahul Gandhi nor his sister Priyanka […]

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reiterated her call to defeat the BJP in 2024, and said the country should strive to bring in a “people’s government to end anarchy”. Speaking in the Assembly, Banerjee, in an apparent reference to BJP president J P Nadda’s recent remark on violence and corruption in Bengal, […]

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Launching a scathing attack on the Prime Minister over his alleged link with business tycoon Gautam Adani, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the PM “thinks that he is very powerful, but he doesn’t realise that the absolute last thing that I am scared of is Narendra Modi.” In a no holds barred attack […]

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday called his state budget a “model” for others to follow and offered to send a copy to the Centre, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi poked fun over a goof-up during his Budget presentation. At a rally in Rajasthan’s Dausa on Sunday, Modi had picked on a […]

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Three years after he teamed up with Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar in an overnight coup to form the government in Maharashtra, deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the exercise had NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s backing. “We had an offer from the NCP that they needed a stable government and we should form […]

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The stand-off between Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi and the state government has intensified with the former’s fresh jibe at Chief Minister MK Stalin that Dalits in the state face atrocities every day. “We have been talking so much about social justice. But, every other day, there are some atrocities against Dalits… either human faeces […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve the regulatory and statutory mechanisms to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India, MGNREGA workers across the country has been protesting against substantial budget cut for the second year reducing the earlier employment guarantee making the rural workforce restive. The reduction in budget allocation would adversely affect 15.51 crore active rural […]

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By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the  rightwing  RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces and ideological streams should come together […]

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By Ashis Biswas Pre-poll campaigning has reached its peak in Tripura, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting twice during the last three days for addressing election meetings in the state and the Home Minister Amit Shah holding road shows and meetings on February 6 and 7 and again on February 12. It was the biggest […]

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The Lok Sabha Secretariat has asked Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to respond by February 15 to notices given by BJP members regarding his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the House. In a letter to Gandhi, dated February 10, the secretariat has asked him to furnish his reply on breach of privilege notices against […]

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In a bid to ensure free and fair assembly elections in Tripura, the international border with Bangladesh and inter-state boundaries will be sealed from Monday, a senior poll official. Elections to the 60-member assembly of the northeastern state will be held on February 16. “The international border with Bangladesh and the inter-state boundaries with Assam […]

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Dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious goal of India achieving USD 5 trillion economy as a “joke” and “silly”, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday said the target should have been much bigger. Replying to the debate on the Appropriation Bill in the State Assembly, Rao, also known as KCR, hit out at […]

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The appointment of a former Supreme Court judge, Justice Abdul S Nazeer,  as Governor six weeks after his retirement, has become the latest flashpoint between the Congress and the BJP, reigniting the debate over the mandatory cooling off period for judges post-retirement. The Congress has cited a remark of the late Arun Jaitley, former law […]

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Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday targeted the BJP, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi wouldn’t have come this far had Bal Thackeray not “saved” him when the then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee had asked him to follow “rajdharma”. He said Shiv Sena protected a political leadership for 25-30 years but they (BJP) didn’t want […]

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By Harihar Swarup Recently, two large boulders, believed to be 60 million years old, were dispatched to Ayodhya. These stones were found along the Gandaki river at a site in Muktinath valley in Nepal. The region is thought to be part of erstwhile kingdom of Mithila, ruled by Ram’s father-in-law, Raja Janak.  According to the […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian tourism market is slowly but surely taking the centre stage. With Ganga Vilas, India is setting the stage for high-budget tourism products. That could bring a paradigm shift in the way the Indian tourism market is looked at. A four-day meeting of the G20 Tourism Working Group was held from […]

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By Luke Savage This week, a poll conducted by Morning Consult about the 2024 Republican presidential field put Donald Trump at nearly 50 percent support with likely GOP primary voters, ahead of presumed rival Ron DeSantis by double digits. Former vice president Mike Pence sits at a meager 7 percent, while former South Carolina governor […]

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Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Saturday launched an attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in Parliament on Thursday (February 9) and questioned if he is “Adani’s Chowkidaar”. He also said the PM spoke like he was standing at a “pan tapri”. Patole’s attack was in response to PM’s 90-minute speech in reply to […]

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Revealing details of a ‘delicate situation’ faced by the Congress and praising senior leader Rahul Gandhi’s determination, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal on Saturday said the former party chief thought of quitting Bharat Jodo Yatra due to severe knee pain during the initial days of the movement. Venugopal said even Priyanka Gandhi said Rahul […]

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  Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday charged that the Congress and the JD(S) believed in 18th century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan and that the two parties cannot do any good for Karnataka, while hailing the ruling BJP which was inspired by 16th century Tuluva queen of Ullal Rani Abbakka Chowta, for a prosperous […]

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There is no anti-incumbency wave against the Congress government in Rajasthan, said Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in an exclusive interview with CNBC-Awaaz on Saturday, adding that the party will form government again in the upcoming election. In an interview with CNBC-Awaaz, Gehlot said, “Our performance remains good and successful during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whatever decisions […]

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By Sushil Kutty Is Adani-Modi and the so-called Hindenburg revelations that brought the alleged murky ties between a prime minister and a stinking rich moneybag an issue in the Tripura assembly elections, the first of nine state assembly elections scheduled for 2023? The answer is, there is so far nothing to indicate ‘yes’ or ‘no’. […]

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