Category: World

By James M Dorsey Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India. Yet, that is what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seek to achieve. Nahdlatul Ulama, arguably the world’s most moderate Muslim civil […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has a greater responsibility of protecting India’s workforce at a time when they are at high risk of being forced into accepting lower quality jobs, as warned by ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) Trend 2023, large scale job cuts is adding into the woes of the […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar was on a two-day visit to Sri Lanka on January 19-20. It follows a letter by India to the IMF that it supports Sri Lanka’s efforts to restructure bilateral debt. The multilateral financial institution has offered a $2.9 billion bailout to Sri Lanka but the actual […]

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The current situation in Karnataka politics is a minefield that makes it equally complicated for both the rivals to achieve a majority on their own in the Legislative Assembly, come May 2023. For starters, the electorate has exhibited a willingness to experiment with alternatives whenever they arise. For instance, from a Congress bastion in the […]

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Shiv Sen (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leading the Bharat Jodo Yatra is capable to be the prime minister of India and no third front will be successful sans the grand old party. He said the purpose of Gandhi’s Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir is to remove the hatred […]

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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday called the basic structure doctrine a North Star that guides and gives certain direction to the interpreters and implementers of the Constitution when the path ahead is convoluted. The remarks by the CJI came against the backdrop of the recent remarks by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar who […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that the government wants to reduce the number of Madrassas in the state and start registration of the system. Addressing a press conference, the Assam Chief Minister said, “We want to reduce the number of Madrasas in the state in the first phase.” “We want to […]

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The Sports Ministry on Saturday suspended Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, a fallout of the grapplers’ allegations of sexual harassment and corruption against the sports body’s chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. It has decided to suspend Tomar, “with immediate effect, to ensure proper functioning of WFI”. The ministry said it has […]

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By Harihar Swarup The Bharat Jodo Yatra will culminate on January 30 in Srinagar with a flag hoisting ceremony at Srinagar on the anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. By then, the yatra which began on September 7, 2022 would have traversed the length of the sub-continent from Kanyakumari to Himalayas. The yatra has […]

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By Ashis Biswas As pre-poll campaigning heats up for  the coming Assembly polls in Tripura and Meghalaya, people of Nagaland are somewhat disappointed that the greater ’political solution ‘ for the state remains unsettled.  State-based regional parties as well as local Congress leaders acknowledge that their participation in the polls may not be whole-hearted. Nagaland […]

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By K Raveendran Thanks to more crude imports by India, Russia has managed to beat the European Union embargo and the G-7 price cap on the Russian crude. In fact, there has been a strong increase in Russian seaborne crude exports, mainly from ports in the country’s west, according to industry sources. More crude is […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Modi government wants a stranglehold on the media. Period. Be it regular media outlets or citizen journalism on social media. The government does not want bad press. It does not tolerate criticism of “government policies, programmes, initiatives and achievements”. It will do anything to avoid taking hits on the chin. It […]

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The Opposition Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday claimed Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has shot a reel of her new video at her residence, a government bungalow, and sought to know if she had taken permission from authorities concerned for recording the clip inside official residential premises. The bungalow, […]

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The Gujarat Congress on Friday said it has suspended 38 functionaries for six years for indulging in anti-party activities during the Assembly polls held in December. The disciplinary committee of the Gujarat Congress met two times this month and has so far received 71 complaints against 95 persons, its convener Balubhai Patel told reporters. “We […]

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BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will step aside from India’s wrestling body for four weeks during which an oversight committee will look into allegations of sexual harassment against him, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur told reporters. After a meeting that lasted seven hours, Thakur, flanked by some of India’s most celebrated wrestlers, in a […]

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The Congress marked the beginning of the Jammu and Kashmir leg of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ criticising the central government’s decision to revoke the special status of the former state, calling it a “grave insult” to the people of the region. The statement was made by senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who called for […]

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British police issued Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a fine on Friday for riding in a car without wearing his seat belt in order to film a clip for social media. Sunak, who apologised on Thursday for what he called a “brief error of judgement”, filmed a video in the back seat of his car […]

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By Arun Srivastava Winning the battle of Bengal will open the wide vista for the RSS to have its political hegemony on the entire eastern and north eastern states. Though the RSS has succeeded in having a deep penetration in the north east, by exploiting the internal conflicts amongst the indigenous people of the belt, […]

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By Sushil Kutty Don’t India’s opposition parties have feelings for the electorate? Watching them behave the way they do does not betray any people-friendly vibes. It would not be wrong to label them cynics. In fact, they should be “gently poked in the arm and told to stop being such misanthropes.” That is one view. […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. This concept is given great currency by the […]

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By Prabir Purkayastha The recent announcement of the Narendra Modi government of a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 19,794 crore) National Green Hydrogen Mission has created two kinds of questions. The most common reaction is what is green hydrogen? And do we have a plan for a green hydrogen path for which Rs 20,000 crore is […]

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BJP MP Brijendra Singh on Thursday demanded a thorough probe into the allegations made by top grapplers against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and his party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, asserting the accusations cannot be taken lightly. Wrestlers including three-time Commonwealth champion Vinesh Phogat and Olympic bronze medallist duo of Bajrang Punia […]

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At a time when various political parties are looking at ways to form a Congress-free alliance and are attempting to spread their influence, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) has surpassed the grand old party in terms of annual income during 2021-22 to be at the second position after the BJP, Election Commission data shows. […]

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Madhya Pradesh Pnchayat Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia has offered Congress leaders of the state two options: Join BJP or face the bulldozer. The ‘offer’ has stirred a massive controversy, with the video of the minister making these comments has gone viral on social media. In the video, Mahendra Sisodia is caught saying, “Join the BJP. […]

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Barely 12 hours after the assembly election was announced in Tripura, former arch rivals CPI(M) and Congress gathered to finalise a seat-sharing formula as their poll strategy. “We needed to come together for the people of the state. There is literally no democracy in the state. We appeal to all democratic fronts to join us […]

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Defending Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the British Parliament, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak distanced himself from the BBC documentary series, saying he “doesn’t agree with the characterization” of his Indian counterpart. Sunak made these remarks on the controversial documentary that was raised in the British Parliament by Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain. “The UK government’s […]

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By Prakash Karat Union law minister, Kiren Rijiju is at it again. He has written to the chief justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, suggesting that a new “search and evaluation committee” be set up which will include a government nominee for making recommendations to the supreme court and high court collegiums for appointment of […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of bank fraud cases across India more than doubled in eight years, and about 12 lakh crore rupees were just vanished from the banking system. Indian Economy has been systematically fleeced, both through legal and illegal means, by big borrowers and bank officials. The Centre and the Reserve Bank of […]

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By Binoy Viswam Stating that there are nearly 400 days left for the 2024 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi masked himself by exhorting the BJP cadres to keep aside electoral aims and work for all sections of people. He was addressing the recently concluded national executive meeting of the BJP. It is one example of […]

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By Sushil Kutty The problem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that he thinks and dreams elections, only elections. Winning elections. And setting electoral records! Not that setting a record in elections has helped the people who voted the BJP, or helped those who did not vote the BJP. Like the Muslims of India, both […]

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Former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal joined the BJP on Wednesday and slammed the Congress, which he quit before starting his new political innings, for factionalism. He lauded the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, saying India has emerged strong, including diplomatically and economically, under their nearly nine-year rule. Voicing concern over the […]

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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee held her first campaign rally in Meghalaya on a day when elections were declared in three northeastern states. The state, along with Nagaland, will go to polls on February 27 while Tripura will vote on February 16. The chief minister and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday took an indirect dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while voicing displeasure over the Centre’s “refusal” to grant special category status to the state. In a free-wheeling conversation with journalists at Buxar district, which he toured as part of his state-wide mass outreach programme ‘Samadhan Yatra’, Kumar referred […]

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Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday urged the party leadership to field only candidates with corruption-free image in the coming Assembly elections in Karnataka to help project an “alternative” to the BJP in the State. The former Chief Minister claimed that his party’s prospects in the polls are “very bright” and alleged that […]

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