Category: World

By Harihar Swarup From a fiscal point of view, the state governments are in a strong position to emerge key drivers of economic growth this year. But while the availability of funds doesn’t appear to be a constraint, surprisingly, actual spending by states so far has been muted. Their ability to ramp up capital expenditure […]

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By K R Sudhaman There is a general euphoria with a PIO Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister of United Kingdom.  This is natural as India being a vibrant democracy, politics is at its best even on a non-issue. In this, there is some case for celebration with Sunak being a practicing Hindu and for the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The provisional payroll data of EPFO released in October 2022 reveals that formal job creation in August sharply dropped by 7 per cent compared to a month earlier in July, though the government press release preferred to claim that the organisation added 16.94 lakh net members, which was an increase of […]

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The Election Commission is likely to announce schedule for the Gujarat Assembly polls this week. Citing convention followed in 2017, the poll panel had not announced the Gujarat poll schedule when it came out with Himachal Pradesh election dates earlier this month. While election in HP will be held in a single phase on November […]

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is a ‘Shiv Bhakt’. Gehlot was in the Nathdwara town of Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district for the unveiling of a 369-foot-tall statue of Lord Shiva, which is claimed to be the world’s tallest. The “Viswas Swaroopam” statue was inaugurated by him along with preacher […]

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National Conference leader and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah has said he wishes for the return of peace in Jammu and Kashmir so that all communities could live without fear. Recalling the communal bonhomie that existed in the erstwhile state before the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s, he said, “There […]

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Delhi Police on Saturday filed an FIR against news portal ‘The Wire’ and its editors on a complaint by BJP IT department head Amit Malviya accusing the media outlet of “cheating and forgery” and “tarnishing” his reputation. Malviya had on Friday said he would pursue criminal and civil proceedings against the portal over stories, since […]

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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s personal phone was hacked by suspected agents working for Russian President Vladimir Putin when she was foreign minister, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. Those agents gained access to “top-secret details” of negotiations with international allies in addition to private messages exchanged with Truss’s close friend Kwasi Kwarteng, who […]

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By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state. Also, the laboratory where the Gujarat […]

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By Arun Srivastava Only after six days of the Supreme Court passing stringent orders to the police chiefs of Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh to file suo motu cases against hate speeches made by people from any religion, and warned of contempt action if the orders of the court are not complied with, the proactive […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati is busy these days to enlarge the support base of her party to face civic polls and later on Lok Sabha polls in 2024. After worst ever performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held in March this year, Mayawati is working very hard to […]

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Aam Aadmi Party boss Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched a crowdsourcing campaign to select the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the Gujarat elections as part of its efforts to trump the BJP in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. The “Choose Your Chief Minister” campaign is the latest push by the Delhi Chief Minister who […]

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By James M Dorsey The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive a wedge between the community and […]

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The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government has removed ‘categorised’ security cover of 25 leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, an official said. It means these leaders would not have permanent police security outside their houses or escort. The decision was taken after a fresh assessment […]

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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that the Election Commission did not follow rules while preparing the voters’ list in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls earlier this year. He alleged that there is a “conspiracy” by the BJP government to suppress the voice of the opposition. “Had the Election Commission followed rules regarding electoral […]

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The Election Commission (EC) issued a notice to Telangana’s Energy Minister Jagadish Reddy on Friday for allegedly threatening voters, saying all welfare schemes will be stopped if they do not vote for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate in the upcoming Munugode bypoll. The poll panel has given Reddy time till 3 pm on […]

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India’s forex reserves dropped by USD 3.847 billion to USD 524.52 billion for the week ended October 21, the RBI said on Friday. This is the lowest since July 2020. The overall reserves had dropped by USD 4.50 billion to USD 528.37 billion in the previous reporting week, and have been declining for many months […]

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Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s assembly seat was declared vacant by the Uttar Pradesh speaker this evening, formalising his disqualification as the MLA from the Rampur seat. Mr Khan, Vidhan sabha sources told NDTV, was automatically disqualified on Thursday, when he was sentenced to three years in prison for a 2019 hate speech against Prime […]

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By Binoy Viswam The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India will be marked as the Congress of confidence and rejuvenated spirit. The Party Congress held in the historic city of Vijayawada gave new impetus to the Party to march forward. Each moment of the Congress from October 14 to 18 was full of […]

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By Prakash Karat Kerala is witnessing the spectacle of a governor who is out of control. One day he is demanding the resignation of all the vice chancellors of Kerala universities and on another day he “withdraws pleasure” from a minister in the government and asks the chief minister to remove him from the cabinet. […]

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By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification” to score brownie points Floccinaucinihilipilification’s dictionary […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP on Wednesday of building three garbage mountains in 15 years and filling the national capital with waste, and then visited the largest site at Ghazipur today, that became a scene with BJP workers protesting with black flags and sloganeering […]

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Several Opposition-ruled states including West Bengal, Delhi, Bihar and Telangana, did not send their political representatives to attend a ‘Chintan Shivir’ being chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Faridabad. According to the official list, political representatives of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Telangana, West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Delhi, Lakshwadeep […]

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah justified the cancellation of licences for many non-government organisations (NGO) and strengthening of the Foreigners Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) on grounds that some NGOs were indulging in religious conversions, anti-national activities and misusing funds. “Some NGOs were misusing FCRA in propagating anti-India activities and also indulging in religious conversions blatantly, […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today. PM Modi and his British counterpart discussed the need to close a balanced free-trade deal between India and the UK soon. “Glad to speak to Rishi Sunak today. Congratulated him on assuming charge as UK PM. We will work together to further […]

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Elon Musk completed the $44 billion acquisition of the micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday evening, reports said. A report by the Insider quoted sources as saying that Twitter and Musk formally closed on the billionaire’s offer to take the company private on Thursday evening by paying $54.20 per share, or approximately $44 billion. Musk reversed […]

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In a tragic incident, three students from India died in a road accident after the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle in western Massachusetts. Prem Kumar Reddy Goda, 27, Pavani Gullapally 22 and Sai Narasimha Patamsetti 22, died on scene of the collision, Berkshire District Attorney’s Office said in a statement on […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. The […]

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By Ashis Biswas With the Assam Government sealing the newly opened museum devoted to ‘Miya culture’ within hours of its opening in Goalpara district, clearly the targeted marginalisation of Bengali speaking Muslim settlers is set to intensify further. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma personally spearheads the offensive, describing the community as not indigenous. The […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP’s core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which is on a backfoot in the […]

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By G. S. Bajpai and Neha Kapur Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which shook the world, changes in employment patterns have become apparent. Flourishing sectors with dynamic work environments suffered jerks and trembled with fewer jobs, high prices and minimal demand. In the wake of the post-pandemic period, a new phenomenon gaining […]

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also in charge of the home department, will not attend the two-day meeting of home ministers of states convened by the Centre at Surajkund in Haryana, a senior official has said. The state government will not send Home Secretary B P Gopalika or Director General of Police […]

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After four days, the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Makthal in Narayanpet district of Telangana on Thursday, party sources said. The yatra kicked off at 6.30 am from Makthal with State Congress president A. Revanth Reddy, MP Uttam Kumar Reddy, CLP leader Bhatti Vikramarka and a number of party leaders joining Gandhi. This […]

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New Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has formed a steering committee with 47 members including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi. The committee will function in place of the Congress’s Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party, till the plenary session is held. New members of the Working Committee will be chosen at […]

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