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As Mallikarjun Kharge swept the party president election with a huge margin over Shashi Tharoor, former Congress chief and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi said he won’t comment on the what his role will be going ahead as that “is for the president to decide”. Rahul Gandhi, who was asked several times by senior party leaders […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party could not be in a worse place than in Nagpur in the state ruled by the BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance. The saffron party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be stewing in their juices when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra makes […]

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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court of India has added very little to its credibility by holding a special sitting on a most uncommon Saturday morning and setting aside the Bombay High Court order for the release of human rights activist G N Saibaba, the wheel-chair bound former Delhi University professor, who had been sentenced […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is among the worst countries in the world where children are facing severe child food poverty, the latest UNICEF data reveals. Severe child food poverty is reaching dire levels, 1 in 3 children under five live in it globally, but in 13 countries, situation was worse with more than 2 […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Future of work has been increasingly dependent on algorithm management for quite some time, the process of which has been accelerated after the COVID-19 crisis changing the world of work. It is posing new challenges to the labour market in general, and workforce in particular. It is potentially disruptive, and to […]

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Less than 12 hours after the Congress released its first list, the BJP on Wednesday released its first list of 62 candidates for the November 12 assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh after late-night deliberations. The party has kept on hold names for the remaining six seats. To ward off any anti-incumbency, the party has denied […]

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CPI(M) politburo member Manik Sarkar has claimed that the BJP has failed to keep leaders in the parties that had toppled the Left Front government in the state in 2018 as five MLAs of the ruling coalition have quit to join other outfits. The situation has now changed in the northeastern state and three BJP […]

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After Rajasthan Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena stirred a row after he remarked Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Bharat Jodo Yatra being “much bigger” than Lord Rama’s padyatra from Ayodhya to Sri Lanka, Maharashtra party president Nana Patole in a statement on Tuesday clarified that no comparison was drawn. Rajasthan Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena in a […]

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J Jayalalithaa’s close aide VK Sasikala has denied an inquiry commission’s allegation that she was responsible for the lapses in the treatment of the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. In a 3-page letter, Sasikala rejected charges made against her by Justice Arumughaswany Commission and said the need for an angiogram never arose for Jayalalithaa and […]

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked the Gujarat government’s reply to pleas challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case is very bulky wherein a series of judgments have been quoted but factual statements are missing. The Supreme Court granted time to the petitioners to file their response to the […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Indian Rupee (INR) is constantly depreciating against the US Dollar (US$). If the trend continues the exchange rate of INR vis-à-vis US$ may touch Rs.100 for a dollar before the end of this financial year. It could be a matter of great concern if India continues to import heavily from US$ trade […]

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By Amarjeet Kaur The situation worldwide and in India for the working class and the common people in general has further deteriorated on all counts since the last CPI  party congress held at Kollam, Kerala. In 2018. The 24th congress of the CPI is currently on in Vijayawada till October 18. There is world-wide shift […]

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By Berry Craig There’s ample historical precedent for Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP embracing far-right, if not outright fascist, European politicians. Their latest hero is Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s likely new prime minister. Never mind that her authoritarian, racist, Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ Brothers of Italy Party was founded after World War II by […]

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By Antoni Kapcia As academics and the media recall and reassess the Cuban missile crisis sixty years on, their focus will primarily be on the two superpowers — the United States and the USSR — that seemingly came close to nuclear war. However, it is also timely to reconsider those who found themselves in the […]

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The Congress retained its hold over the Nagpur Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra as both its candidates were elected to the posts of president and vice-president of the local body on Monday. The Congress’ Mukta Kokarde was elected as the president and Kunda Raut as the vice-president during a special general body meeting of Zilla Parishad […]

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After a 96% turnout for the Congress presidential post elections, the party resumed its ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh with renewed vigour and a band performance. Of the total 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that form the electoral college to pick the party chief in a secret ballot, over 9,500 cast […]

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There is “no vacancy” for the post of prime minister as opposition is “out of the race” and Narendra Modi will become PM again in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Union Minister Anupriya Patel said here on Monday. “Her party (Apna Dal-Sonelal) has contested four elections with the BJP and got good results. 2024 elections are […]

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Ahead of Diwali, the Gujarat government on Monday announced a reduction in VAT (Value Added Tax) on CNG and PNG by 10 per cent and said two cooking gas cylinders will be given free every year to 38 lakh beneficiaries who have got gas connections under the Centre’s Ujjwala scheme. The reduction in VAT on […]

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Slamming Arvind Kejriwal for comparing his deputy Manish Sisodia and minister Satyendar Jain with Bhagat Singh, a close relative of the freedom fighter, Harbhajan Singh Dhath, on Monday asked the Delhi Chief Minister to “fight his fights politically”. Dhath also asked Kejriwal to refrain from “equating” criminals with freedom fighters and suggested that he “concentrate” […]

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By Arun Srivastava Riding on the back of Boris Johnson’s support, Liz Truss entered into the cosy office of the prime minister of Britain, but this success has not provided her with the vision as to how to govern Britain. During the Tory leadership contest, the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak had cautioned that her plans […]

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Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said the Gandhi family has struggled to strengthen the party, and he would have no shame in taking their advice and support in case he is elected party president. Kharge, considered close to the Gandhis, joined Rahul Gandhi in Bellary on Saturday for the Bharat Jodo Yatra and […]

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On the eve of voting to elect the new Congress president, Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he is batting on a track with an “uneven bounce” and doesn’t want “pitch tampering”. Asked to comment on the fairness of the polls, Tharoor in an interview told PTI, “I had said there is an uneven playing field […]

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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, called for questioning by the CBI in the liquor policy case, predicted his arrest today as part of a BJP “plan” to stop him from campaigning for the upcoming Gujarat election. He took out a roadshow and made a series of stops on his way to the CBI office, […]

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The Border Security Force shot down a quad-copter sporting drone on Sunday night along the India-Pakistan international border in the Amritsar region, officials said. This is the second such incident in last three days at this frontier. The drone weighing 12 kg had four propellers, intercepted and shot around 9.15 pm near the Rania border […]

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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal today said a “storm of change” is sweeping over Gujarat and his party will form the next government. Addressing a rally in Bhavnagar, Kejriwal said people in Gujarat are tired after 27 years of BJP rule and are eager to vote AAP. Kejriwal is […]

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By K Raveendran The move by the US and western nations to enforce a price cap on Russian crude as part of their sanctions against Moscow to put even a tighter leash on its finances provides another opportunity for India to maximise its benefits through the purchase of discounted Ural crude. India has made it […]

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By Harihar Swarup RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s vijayadashami speech exhibited the confidence of the organization and its strong desire to  intervene  in the contemporary social and cultural churning in India. RSS’s ideological shadow has spread beyond its organizational reach and cadre. Sontosh Yadav, the chief guest at the function on October 5, said, “she was […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Congress presidential hopeful Shashi Tharoor spring a surprise by winning the election for the top party post?  That is the question uppermost in the minds of Congress leaders and activists in his home state Kerala. Political experts, however,  say the odds are against  Tharoor. Although the Congress High Command has […]

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By Sushil Kutty Earlier this month, October 10 to be precise, Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, stunned the world when she admitted to the European Parliament that Pfizer did not know if its Covid-19 vaccine had been tested for the prevention of the transmission of the virus at the time of its […]

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The BJP on Saturday slammed JD(U) president Lalan Singh for using highly objectionable and unparliamentary words while alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 claimed to be from an extremely backward class though Gujarat has no EBC category. While Singh refused to apologise for the comments he had made on Friday, RJD leader and […]

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Supporters of JanaSena Party chief and actor Pawan Kalyan raised slogans outside Andhra Pradesh’s Vishakhapatnam Airport on Saturday, as he arrived in the city. They briefly protested against YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders Roja and Jogi Ramesh, and TTD Chairman YV Subba Reddy. They spoke up against the proposal of three capitals for Andhra Pradesh, […]

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Nihar Thackeray, the grandson of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray, has said that he supports the Eknath Shinde faction of the party and is ready to campaign for the upcoming Andheri East Assembly byelection as well as the Mumbai civic body polls. He also did not rule out joining electoral politics. The BJP, supported […]

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At the opening of a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping said that China has achieved comprehensive control over Hong Kong, turning it from chaos to governance, while condemning what he said was interference in Taiwan. Xi Jinping walked onstage to thunderous applause from nearly 2,300 delegates who have gathered at Beijing’s […]

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Shashi Tharoor, who is running for Congress President, has clarified on his recent comments that some people in the party were assuming that there’s an official candidate. It was seen as alluding to Mallikarjun Kharge, the other candidate in the Congress President election, which is being closely watched by party insiders as well as the […]

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