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By Dr Arun Mitra The cow is in picture again, this time with the approval of competent authority and on the direction of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy. With emphasis on aiming to celebrate the ‘Vedic tradition’ and the immense benefits a cow possesses, the Animal […]

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By K Raveendran In a desperate bid to defend Adani, an orchestrated attempt is being made to present shorting as something undesirable and even abominable. Adani himself has tried to pretend that the action by US investment firm Hindenburg in exposing the irregularities in his group’s accounting practices as an attack against India and the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market remains volatile. The month of January 2023 witnessed a large number of unemployed moving out from the labour market after they got frustrated after months of searching jobs. This act of the unemployed excluded their count as unemployed resulting in fall in unemployment rate from 8.3 per cent […]

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The Eidgah Maidan issue in Karnataka is back in the news again as the state heads towards assembly elections. The BJP-administered Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) has decided to rename Hubballi’s Eidgah Maidan to Kittur Rani Chennamma ground. The corporation has asked citizens to file any objections to the proposal in 30 days. In August, a […]

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Asking who in India uses their maternal grandfather’s surname, the Congress on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on the Gandhis not using the Nehru name and said he doesn’t have the basic understanding of Indian culture. “Only god can save the country,” AICC general secretary Randeep Surjewala told reporters […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new campus of an educational institute of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslims on Friday in an outreach to one of Mumbai’s most influential communities ahead of the high-stakes municipal elections in the city. PM Modi was seen walking, holding hands with the head of the community, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, at […]

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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday took potshots at Congress and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over his budget gaffe saying that last year’s budget was read in the state assembly. Nirmala Sitharaman, who replied to the debate on the Union Budget 2023-24, hit back at Congress over corruption allegations against the government, saying […]

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In a move that could benefit tens of thousands of foreign tech workers on H-1B and L1 visas, the US is planning to resume “domestic visa revalidation” in certain categories on a pilot basis with the goal of scaling it up in the next few years. The pilot project, to be launched later this year, […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik Gautam Adani’s calling Hindenburg’s allegations of fraud against him an attack on the Indian nation is a matter of particular significance. Just before this episode, the BBC documentary on Modi had been labelled a product of the colonial mindset by the government and hence also construed to be an attack on the […]

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By Sushil Kutty The human body is 80 percent water. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s is 80 percent hubris, the remaining 20 percent hot air for ballast, also called ‘bombast’! Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma and qualities to inspire are garnished with enough narcissism to sink INS Vikrant! And his breadth of vision matched only by […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the race for prime ministerial candidate from the combined Opposition will most likely include the names of Sharad Pawar, Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee. But after the remarkable response of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the former Congress president has emerged as an equally […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Even after Pradyot Kishor Manikya Debbarma, chief of the most powerful party of the tribals in Tripura Tipra Motha (TM) sought to carve out a separate state from Tripura, none of the leaders of the major political parties contesting the state Assembly elections have dared to label him a separatist. For the […]

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In a stinging attack on the Gandhi family, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked why they do not use “Nehru” as their surname and said India is not a slave to any family. The Prime Minister also accused the grand-old-party of toppling several state governments during their rule at the Centre. “If in some […]

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A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached one of his properties, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel offered rich praises to deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, setting political tongues wagging in Maharashtra. The programme was organised by Patel in his home constituency of Gondia to mark the birth anniversary of his father Manoharbhai […]

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The infighting within Congress has led to a political turmoil in Maharashtra and now, Shiv Sena (UBT) has jumped into the controversy. Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ has targeted Congress state chief Nana Patole, saying his “immature” step of abruptly resigning from the position of Speaker in the State Assembly cost the MVA government very dearly, putting […]

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Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday asked Rajya Sabha chairperson, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, why parts of his speech on Prime Minister Narendra Modi were scrubbed from parliament records, a day after similar action against party leader Rahul Gandhi. “I don’t think there was anything unparliamentary or accusatory against anyone in my speech… But a […]

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By Arun Srivastava While the 140 crores Indians, even those spread across the world, were impatiently awaiting a resilient rebuttal from their prime minister Narendra Modi to the allegations levelled by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against him of patronising and promoting corporate giant Gautam Adani, who allegedly indulged  in financial irregularities and fraud, Modi, […]

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By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blocked the demand raised by the Opposition in the Parliament for an enquiry to be monitored by the Supreme Court or to set up Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Adani group’s manipulations of the stock market and fraud and into the allegations levelled against the industrialist […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The result of the election for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held on December 4, was declared on December 7, 2022. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had won 134 seats in a house of 250. The BJP that had been ruling the MCD for the last 15 years could win 104 seats […]

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By Subodh Verma The union budget for 2023-24 has unveiled a big assault on lives and livelihoods of the people. Spending on schemes and programmes that provide direct economic benefit to people has been slashed across the board. But even bigger and more alarming are the sins of omission. Key problems confronting the people have […]

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The Congress on Wednesday strongly criticised the expunging of certain remarks made by Rahul Gandhi in Parliament targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and alleged that “democracy was cremated” in Lok Sabha. Gandhi had made these remarks while participating in a debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. […]

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The feedback unit (FBU) set up by the Delhi government to check corruption allegedly collected ”political intelligence”, the CBI has found in a preliminary enquiry and recommended that an FIR be registered against Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. The AAP dispensation had proposed setting up the FBU in 2015 to gather relevant information and actionable […]

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Uddhav Thackeray, who heads a faction of the Shiv Sena, on Wednesday said that the decision by the Supreme Court on the disqualification of the party’s rebel MLAs should come first and then by the Election Commission on who the original party belongs to. Addressing a press conference, Thackeray also asked why the EC froze […]

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AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said the Narendra Modi government is bringing back the “Indira Gandhi era” as he referred to a tug of war over the process of appointment of judges and raised concerns over those holding constitutional posts commenting on the “basic structure” of the Constitution. Participating in a debate on the […]

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The US is not looking at sanctioning India over its oil purchase from Russia, Karen Donfried, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, said on Wednesday. The relationship with India is most consequential and while the policy approach of US and India may differ, both share a commitment to uphold the order […]

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By Arun Srivastava It is for the first time in the history of the RSS, the proponent of politics and philosophy of Hindutva, that it has come out in the favour of a capitalist. The reason is simple: to protect the interest of its political front, the BJP, and its public face, Narendra Modi. The […]

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By Sushil Kutty ‘Hindu-versus-Hindutva’, and the ‘casteism’ that plagues Hindu society are the issues for the 2023 9-states’ assembly elections, as well as for the 2024 general elections. Ask people from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and they will agree. Especially after the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. It does not need rocket science, […]

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By James M Dorsey A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000 respondents in Iran and 42,000 Diaspora […]

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By K Raveendran Further hikes in steel prices are in the offing as upside risks in the global markets have strengthened in recent weeks. Faced with a decline in global production, manufacturers across the world are raising their prices. Indian steel mills have already effected a 3-5 percent increase in prices across the board, with […]

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BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday accused Rahul Gandhi of making baseless, shameless and reckless allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and charged that the Congress and the Gandhi family were involved in “big scams” which “tarnished” the image of the country. “Deal and commission” have been part of the Congress’ working culture and […]

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BJP Uttar Pradesh chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary on Tuesday said SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya’s remarks on the Ramcharitmanas was “nonsensical ranting” and claimed that such comments were being made as the opposition party had no agenda left. Maurya, a general secretary in the Samajwadi Party (SP), had recently courted controversy after he alleged that […]

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GV Sanjay Reddy, Vice Chairman of the conglomerate GVK, has strongly denied Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s comments that the Modi government arm-twisted GVK and “hijacked” Mumbai airport from the conglomerate and handed it to the Adani group. “There was absolutely no pressure from the Adani group or anyone else to sell Mumbai airport,” Reddy told […]

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A poem criticising Mahatma Gandhi recited by a school student sparked a political flashpoint in Madhya Pradesh. The poem, recited at an event in Seoni’s CM Rise School, accused the Mahatma of being “silent” during a “period of violence” — an apparent reference to the Partition. The poem also questioned who were the ones who […]

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Reality Star Rakhi Sawant’s husband Adil Durrani has been arrested by Mumbai Police after the former filed an FIR against him, alleging he mishandled her funds. The Oshiwara Police filed the FIR under IPC Sec 406 and 420 against Adil Durrani. Later in the evening, the police also added sections 498 (A) and 377 of […]

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