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By Kalyani Shankar How does one assess the impact of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s just completed Bharat Jodo yatra? Has he achieved his goal vis-a-vis himself, his party and the Opposition? The answer is yes; he has partially succeeded in his image makeover. But about the Party and the Opposition, it is too soon to […]

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By Sushil Kutty The courts of the land should watch their words. The Supreme Court, especially. The top court cannot utter words that put a question mark on its integrity and its motives. More than any entity, the topmost court must be responsible. Observations such as “there is no room for hate crimes based on […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak While policies and institutional arrangements aimed at intensification and growth of the Indian agriculture sector are inevitable for the livelihoods and food security of the country’s vast population, the inclusion of land-constrained farmers especially women, therein requires certain fundamental changes in the approaches. This observation has been made in an ADBI […]

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By Chinmay Bendre The Budget Session of Parliament began on January 31 and will continue till April 6. While taxation policies continue to be a top concern for the aam aadmi in the Union budget, this article examines the Union government’s track record of upholding assurances given in the Parliament. Elected representatives elicit information from […]

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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal on Monday held meetings with floor leaders of opposition parties. During the meetings, leaders across party lines were of the view that discussions should be held on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address. Opposition sources said the chances […]

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The Enforcement Directorate has questioned and recorded the statement of Alankar Sawai, a close aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a money laundering case in which TMC spokesperson Saket Gokhale was recently arrested by the agency in Gujarat, officials said. Sawai was questioned and also confronted with Gokhale in Ahmedabad over three days earlier […]

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The newly formed political party Tipra Motha is likely to emerge as the kingmaker after the Tripura assembly polls, in which it will fight a triangular contest with the BJP-IPFT and Congress-Left Front alliances. Tipra Motha, headed by erstwhile royal scion Pradyot Manikya Debbarma, refused to stitch an alliance with either the BJP or foes-turned-friends […]

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High drama ensued in the national capital on Saturday after BJP workers gathered outside Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s office and demanded his resignation over allegations made against the ruling AAP by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). BJP workers raised slogans against the ruling AAP government after ED alleged that Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party used money […]

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Former Karnataka chief minister and the Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramiah, on Monday triggered controversy with his remark that he is not anti-Hindu but anti-Hindutva as according to him, Hindutva is for murder, violence and discrimination. Speaking in Kalaburagi during the launch of a book – a biopic of former congress MLA […]

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After a third attempt, the mayor and deputy mayor of Delhi could not be successfully elected by the Delhi Assembly. A brand-new date will now be fixed once again by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in the coming days. This is the third time in a month that the municipal House failed to elect a […]

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In yet another jolt to the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, MLA Suman Kanjilal joined Trinamool Congress in presence of party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday. Several BJP MLAs including Mukul Roy, Arjun Singh, and Rajib Banerjee have switched sides following Mamata Banerjee’s landslide victory in the 2021 state Assembly elections. There […]

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In what could give some anxious moments to the Bhagwant Mann government, a large-scale protest broke out in Punjab’s Faridkot district with victims of the Kotkapura police firing incident along with several Sikh organisations blocking the Bathinda-Amritsar national highway for several hours. The Kotkapura firing incident had taken place on October 14, 2015, after alleged […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The Russia-Ukraine war will complete a full year on February 23, this year. And, there is no sign of the war coming to an end any time soon. In fact, the armed conflict between the two East European neighbours is becoming deadlier by day. As of January 29, this year, the UN […]

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By Sushil Kutty After the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government was forced out by the breakaway Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena in June 2022, revenge has been exacted. The BJP has been defeated in the Nagpur legislative elections. But while some are calling it a “major electoral setback for the BJP”, others are surprised that […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Under normal circumstances, comprehensive and wide-ranging reforms undertaken in the economy during the last eight years, would have accelerated India’s growth. But that was not to be. The ‘culprit’ is India’s balance sheet stress caused by the credit boom in previous years. This scapegoat for deceleration of the Indian economy since […]

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By Arun Srivastava Within a week of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s vow that he “would prefer to die instead of having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again”, rumour of prime minister Narendra Modi offering a very senior position in his cabinet to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, probably next to […]

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Both houses of the parliament were adjourned till 2 pm today amid loud protests and sloganeering from opposition parties demanding a discussion on and an investigation into allegations of fraud against the Adani Group. Opposition parties, following a meeting at the chamber of Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, in the parliament […]

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By Sushil Kutty Behind the back lots of things happen. The Enforcement Directorate, for example, on February 4, questioned a very close aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a money laundering case involving a jailed Trinamool Congress spokesperson. And it is the kind of roundabout thing that makes a person wonder “What’s Rahul Gandhi’s […]

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By James M Dorsey Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has put Israel’s closest allies and some of his key partners on the spot. So has a generation of Palestinian youth that has nothing to lose and no longer sees fruitless engagement with and acquiescence of the Jewish state as a means of realizing their national and […]

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By Eric A. Gordon You have to hand it to people like Eran Kolirin. He’s the film director who in 2007 gave us The Band’s Visit, about an Egyptian military band that by some fluke managed to find itself in a sad, godforsaken Jewish desert town in Israel, whose residents unexpectedly were able to find […]

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The AAP will contest all 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, due later this year, a party office-bearer said on Saturday indicating the Arvind Kejriwal-led party will pitch the Delhi model of governance to target the BJP and opposition Congress and accused them of playing “destructive politics”. AAP organisational general secretary Sandeep Pathak cited […]

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Despite no announcement from the Uttar Pradesh government for a caste-based census in the state, Deputy CM and key BJP leader Keshav Prasad Maurya on Saturday backed the demand for it and said he is “all for it”. This can be considered a significant turn in OBC politics in the state, as the BJP-led stat […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday asserted that the drive against child marriage, launched by the state police from the previous day, will continue till the next assembly elections in 2026. More than 2,250 people have been arrested in the state till Saturday in the crackdown on child marriage, according to an official […]

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Boom. And the Chinese spy balloon, of the size of three buses, that had strayed into the US airspace was shot down with a single missile, showed a video. The Pentagon said on Friday that it had surveillance capabilities. China angrily voiced its “strong dissatisfaction” at the move and said it may make “necessary responses.” […]

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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday attacked the Centre for discontinuing the Maulana Azad National Fellowship, alleging that the government is on an “overdrive” to make life more difficult for students from minority communities. In a written reply in Lok Sabha earlier this week, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani had said, “As the Maulana […]

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By Harihar Swarup Since his 3,506-km Bharat Jodo Yatra ended on January 30 in Srinagar, it is time to assess its impact. Rahul Gandhi has shown incredible stamina, a will to complete what he embarked on, instead of, running abroad halfway—which he was known for. The Yatra also showed another side of the usually inaccessible […]

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By K Raveendran With China slowly reopening after it abandoned the zero-Covid policy, global markets are bracing up for an industrial inflation, denoting higher industrial material prices. Already signs of importers of Chinese goods and materials having to dish out more for their requirements are visible, according to analysts. China’s zero-Covid policy has been central […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It has become a nauseatingly unredeemable tale of rejection and rebuff for Kerala. True to pattern, the State has once again been given the cold shoulder in the Union Budget. None of the demands made by the state have been accepted. The only silver lining has been the decision to increase […]

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By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Economic Survey (ES) 2022-23 prepared the ground for the focus points in the Union Budget 2023-24 presented on February 1… Labour law reforms were implemented. It is not a question of the Union Government’s failure. It is the duty of the Union Government to pass laws and frame […]

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The Reserve Bank of India today said the country’s banking system remains resilient and stable, amid concerns about the exposure of lenders to Adani group companies. “Various parameters relating to capital adequacy, asset quality, liquidity, provision coverage and profitability are healthy. Banks are also in compliance with the Large Exposure Framework guidelines issued by the […]

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The Congress has strongly objected to the introduction in the Rajya Sabha of a private member’s bill which seeks to repeal the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Repeal Bill, 2022 was listed for introduction in the Upper House of Parliament on Friday by BJP member Harnath Singh […]

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Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday took a swipe at “arm-chair liberals” and “professional Congress bashers” who stayed away from the Bharat Jodo Yatra while continuing to pontificate on it, sharing an animation on them. Taking to Twitter, Ramesh shared a 40-second animation with a Hindi voice over which shows the “home of an […]

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There is no proposal to use the remote electronic voting machine (RVM) in the “upcoming election” in the country and it is also not proposed for the use of Non-Resident Indian (NRI) voters, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. Responding to a question in the Lower House of Parliament, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said in […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 2023  assembly election season has started with the polls in Tripura scheduled on February 16 and Meghalaya, Nagaland on February 27. The results of all the three states in the first phase, will be known on March 2. The outcome will be having significant impact on the tempo of the poll […]

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