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The West Bengal government on Thursday verbally moved the chief justice’s bench at the Calcutta High Court, seeking permission to file a petition challenging a single bench order that directed the state police not to register any FIR against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari without permission of the court. The move came after the Supreme Court […]

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BJP Karnataka strongman B S Yediyurappa on Thursday dismissed reports he is being neglected in the party and said he has his own strength and no one can finish him off politically. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, meanwhile, rubbished reports of differences with his predecessor Yediyurappa. ”There is no truth in the statement that I am […]

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BJP Lok Sabha members Thursday termed the deaths in Bihar due to the hooch tragedy as ”mass murder” and urged the Centre to take immediate action against the government under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, holding it responsible for the incident. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, BJP’s Paschim Champaran MP Sanjay Jaiswal claimed that spurious […]

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  India has successfully carried out night trials of the Agni V nuclear-capable ballistic missile which can hit targets beyond 5,400 km, sources in the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, amid heightened tensions with China over clashes along the de facto border in Arunachal Pradesh last week. The test was carried out to validate new […]

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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said today that he would form his cabinet after the assembly session, amid reports of intense lobbying for ministries among Congress factions delaying the process. Sukhu denied any pressure or challenge in naming ministers. “There is no pressure, I am very relaxed…always relaxed,” the Chief Minister told NDTV […]

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By K Raveendran A global survey of companies has revealed a serious shortage of tech talent when it comes to artificial intelligence, which is threatening to slow down the shift towards the new productivity tool. A majority of respondents in the survey, carried out by management consultancy McKinsey, have reported difficulty in hiring for each […]

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By Ram Kumar The tendency to centralise administration and power – and thereby weaken the federal structure of the constitution – is a hallmark of the Narendra Modi government’s policy. One of the important ways in which the Modi government attempted to violate the constitutional powers of the states was by forming a ministry of […]

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By Krishna Jha In almost every act of development, there keeps flowing an undercurrent of loss. Every beginning is based on the negation of its preceding one. One glaring example is that of global warming. There is smog, wide spread and dense, erosion destroying the course of streams and rivers that had sheltered the human […]

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By Sushil Kutty The morning of December 14 ex-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan hitched his wagon to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The timing made sense. One, the Bharat Jodo Yatra was traversing through Congress-ruled Rajasthan. Two, the Congress had just a couple of days ago defeated the BJP in Himachal Pradesh. Three, of the three […]

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Telangana Congress workers have taken to the streets after a sweep by cyber police at the party’s social media war room. Authorities raided the office of Congress’s chief poll strategist Sunil Kanugolu on the night of December 13 after they received five FIRs against the party for allegedly running derogatory content against chief minister K […]

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“Only we can defeat the BJP” — For Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s new national general secretary, organisation, Dr Sandeep Pathak, the goal and the roadmap to achieve it are clear. Pathak, who was made a permanent invitee to AAP’s 11-member political affairs committee ahead of the party gearing up for assembly elections in more than […]

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Separate walkouts by Congress and TMC in the Lok Sabha over skirmishes along the China border have exposed problems in Opposition floor coordination in Parliament. As soon as the Question Hour ended, leader of the Congress party in the House Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who had moved an adjournment motion on the issue, sought a discussion […]

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Multilateral platforms are being misused to justify and protect perpetrators of terrorism, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday during an open debate at the UN Security Council, in a veiled attack on China and its close ally Pakistan. Presiding over the UN Security Council open debate on ‘Maintenance of International Peace and Security: […]

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Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, endorsed Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra on Wednesday, underscoring the need for “internal harmony”. This, he indicated, was also the way the sufferings of the “lower middle class” could be addressed, he indicated. Dr Rajan had joined the footmarch from Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur. The […]

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By Anjan Roy Energy shortage could become a thing of the past and so could be the concerns about global warming if what the US scientists have achieved could really be rolled out commercially. US department of energy has announced that its scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough in “fusion technology” for generating electricity. […]

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By Arun Srivastava More than keeping his promise made to the RJD leaders and other alliance partners, it is the importance of Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar’s caste oriented politics that led Nitish Kumar to announce Tejashvi, his deputy in the alliance government, as his successor. The Bihar Mahagathbandhan will go to the 2025 assembly elections […]

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By Ashis Biswas Ahead of the Meghalaya and Tripura state Assembly elections in 2023, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo  Mamata Banerjee , currently visiting the Northeast,  is sending out  mixed signals to  major national  parties like the BJP and Congress . Steps taken by the TMC  so far  in Meghalaya and Assam, indicate a flexible, carefully […]

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By Dr Arun Mitra The group of 20 countries, nick named as G20 includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. So far seven summits of the G20 have been held. […]

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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, has called a meeting of opposition leaders to discuss the floor strategy to corner the government in wake of recent face-off of the Indian Army with the Chinese PLA at Arunachal Pradesh. The BJP parliamentary party meeting is also scheduled […]

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With the newly elected Congress government in Himachal Pradesh deciding to set up a committee to review recent projects cleared by the previous Jai Ram Thakur regime, a war of words has begun, with the opposition hurling allegations of political vendetta even as chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu defended the move. A day after taking […]

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his Karnataka counterpart Basavaraj Bommai will hold a joint meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah today  in Delhi to discuss the border dispute between both states. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will also be present at the meeting. Earlier in the day, Bommai said he will make […]

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The Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has warned senior party leader Raja Pateriya of expulsion from the party over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Issuing a notice to Pateriya on Tuesday, Congress sought an explanation why he should not be expelled from the party’s membership. The MPCC, while terming the alleged act […]

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi will reportedly be sworn in as a minister on Wednesday. The youth wing secretary of the DMK and MLA’s swearing-in ceremony will be held at 9.30 am. “The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (M K Stalin) has recommended to the Governor of Tamil Nadu (R N Ravi) […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Now that the voters in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh have given their verdict, what next? Each of the main parties got some gains but also suffered some losses. The immediate challenge before them and the Opposition are to set right things before the final  2024 polls. BJP won a spectacular victory in […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Devil of a New Pension Scheme (NPS) has now surfaced impacting government employee-pensioners in India, many of whom are getting a paltry monthly pension in the range of Rs 2000-Rs 4000 per month retiring after 18 years of service as a government employee. In the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), they […]

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By Sushil Kutty Usually things start with a display of offensive banners and end with a flag meeting. Tempers cool followed by the rival “20-year-olds” going back to each their neck of the woods either side of the LAC. This time, it was at Tawang far to the east of Galwan and happened on December […]

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By Arun Srivastava Impervious of the defeat of his JD(U) candidate by the BJP contender in Kurhani assembly by-election, the leader of the seven party Mahagathbandhan, Nitish Kumar in a clarion call to his opposition friends underscored the need for coming together to successfully counter the BJP. After the defeat while the BJP leaders were […]

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Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge arrived in his hometown Gulbarga/Kalaburgi to a grand reception last week. A victory in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections under his belt, Kharge was more confident and aggressive. He took centre stage and was frank when he told two top leaders of the party in Karnataka – Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar […]

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will lead the Centre’s response today as it prepares for the Opposition’s offensive over the India-China border clash in Arunachal Pradesh last week. The country’s military and diplomatic leadership will meet today to discuss the next step after the December 9 border clash emerged as the latest flashpoint in the strained […]

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The Winter Session of Parliament is underway with the Opposition seeking to corner the BJP-led Central government over a host of issues including the India-China troops clash along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector, inflation, and unemployment. The Congress on Monday hit out at the Centre over the stand-off with China in Arunachal […]

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Former Madhya Pradesh minister and senior Congress leader Raja Pateria has been arrested by Panna Police, in connection with his alleged ‘kill Modi to save constitution’ remarks. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered on Monday afternoon at the Pawai police station in MP’s Panna district against the Congress leader for the controversial remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A controversy erupted after […]

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Amid speculations that some of the newly elected AAP MLAs in Gujarat may switch sides, a former Election Commission official on Monday said it will not hamper the party’s bid to get the national party tag. “The national party thing should not get affected at all because post-election people leaving (party) does not actually count. […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party has tried to balance the caste and regional equations with Patidar, Koli, Dalit, tribal, OBC, Jain, Brahmin, and Kshatriya communities getting representation in the new cabinet of second-term chief minister Bhupendrabhai Patel. Among sixteen ministers, excluding Bhupendra Patel who was sworn in again as Gujarat CM on Monday, six are from […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Few manufacturing industries in India have done as consistently well as the drug industry over the last four decades. The Indian drug industry is currently ranked the world’s third largest in pharmaceutical production by volume. The production has been increasing rapidly supported by rising domestic consumption and exports. The industry has been […]

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