Category: World

Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of appeasement politics, declaring their black-clothes protest was actually against the foundation ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Pointing out that today is the anniversary of the foundation ceremony, he said the Congress, by holding the protest in black clothes, “is sending a subtle […]

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By Anjan Roy In the face of persistent inflationary pressures and tie in prices, the Reserve Bank of India has jacked up on Friday its basic policy rate —the repo rate— by 40 basis points to 5.4%. With this hike, the RBI policy rate now reaches what it was before the pandemic started. This is […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Spectrum (radio waves) is a scarce resource, and almost all of us may have already heard something about 2G, 3G, 4G, and now 5G. Even PM Narendra Modi has been championing for it for quite some time. However, it would be shocking to know that the management of spectrum in India […]

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By Sushil Kutty If a Karnataka lingayat seer is to be believed, Rahul Gandhi will be prime minister in 2024. With that taken for granted, the Congress can set its eye on winning the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. The lingayat seer is invested in Rahul Gandhi. He also happens to be from the lingayat mutt […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra With the ongoing war of words between former Karnataka chief minister PC Siddaramaiah and state president D K Shivakumar over the chief minister’s candidature within the Congress, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appealed to the party’s state unit leaders to work amicably with fraternity for the 2023 assembly polls. He appealed […]

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By Ashis Biswas Largely unnoticed by the Indian mainstream media, Bangladesh hosted the Ministerial Conference of Developing 8 grouping, D-8 for short, a few days ago. This relatively new alliance brings together eight Muslim countries spread from South East Asia to Africa. There were a few tangible, positive decisions taken at the virtually conducted Foreign […]

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Ahead of Congress’ protest against rising prices, MP Rahul Gandhi said that India is witnessing the ‘death of democracy’. Congress will today hold protests over rising prices, unemployment and GST hike. Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and senior leaders will take part in “PM House gherao” while Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs will hold […]

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A Chinese research and survey ship is due to dock in the Chinese-run Hambantota Port in southern Sri Lanka on August 11, leading India to closely monitor the situation. Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry media spokesman Colonel Nalin Herath said Sri Lanka understands India’s concern as the ship is capable of monitoring military installations, but it’s […]

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By Prakash Karat Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, spoke recently about how a strong government should be.  Addressing a university convocation in Chennai on July 29, Modi said: “A strong government does not control everything or everyone.  It controls the system’s impulse to interfere…A strong government does not move into every domain”.  He further said: “A […]

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By Binoy Viswam At the 75th year of Independence, India witnesses unusual initiatives from BJP, the ruling party. They are taking extra pains to exhibit their loyalty to the national freedom struggle and the National Flag. Anyone with a little understanding of history knows that neither the BJP nor its predecessors who form part of […]

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By Sushil Kutty The prime-time anchor couldn’t hold back his happiness. He wanted to know from the anti-corruption crusader exactly where the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was happy to oblige. Both had tried and found Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi guilty. The anchor spelled out the verdict and the anti-corruption crusader said there was […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, common people have been bearing the brunt of the once-in-a-generation cost-of-living crisis since the beginning of 2020. Hundreds of millions lost even access to food, energy, and finance, millions of them just perished, and millions somehow survived on assistance in cash or kinds from […]

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By Dr Arun Mitra As we approach August 6, we remember 8.15 am on that day in 1945 when the US exploded first ever nuclear weapon on human population at Hiroshima in Japan. This was followed by another attack on Nagasaki on 9th August. Over two lakh people died on these two days in these […]

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The Personal Data Protection Bill, which sought to regulate how an individual’s data can be used by companies and the government, has been withdrawn after a joint parliamentary committee suggested 81 changes to it. According to government sources, considering the report of the joint parliamentary committee, a comprehensive legal framework is being worked upon that […]

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Heightened police activity outside the Congress party’s headquarters and chief Sonia Gandhi’s residence following the sealing of the offices of a company linked to the party’s leadership was an attempt to intimidate the opposition, Congress leaders said on Wednesday. “@INCIndia is under siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs, and homes of INC President & […]

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Raghuram Rajan, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank, told NDTV today that while growth figures in India is better than many nations, the country needs more on account of its huge population. Though the growth figure is around 7 per cent — which the government quoted in parliament in response to the debate on […]

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By K Raveendran Parliament has been witnessing a standoff between the government and the opposition over the issue of price rise and inflation, with the opposition demanding urgent debate on the issue and the Modi government showing the inclination to go to any extent, including suspension of over a scores of members belonging to the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Destitution, bankruptcy, mass famine! Some rightwing folks desperate to see the back of Joe Biden are predicting this for America. They do not like the President’s “dementia” and are not hailing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking on the People’s Republic of China in its own backyard. One of them has come up […]

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By James M Dorsey President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in a US drone strike. The problem is that’s only half of the truth; the other half is that Zawahiri was more a has-been than a power to […]

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By Anjan Roy The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri by the US intelligence network is more about the lethal capacities that the US has developed than the elimination of one person. al-Zawahiri was singled out and killed so precisely that not another person in his extended household in a Kabul safe-house had died. Ayman al-Zawahiri was […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Foodgrain crisis is set to further aggravate in India. Earlier, the heatwave conditions impacted the wheat crop leading to less production and procurement enforcing wheat export ban on May 13, and now deficit rainfall has caused a decline of rice cultivation by about 13 per cent so far. The shrinkage in […]

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Chinese fighter jets have crossed the Taiwan Strait, local media reported today, as tensions flare over an visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi is the highest-ranked American politican to visit the island in 25 years. “China’s Su-35 fighter jets are crossing the Taiwan Straits,” state TV CGTN reported, without adding further […]

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By Kalyani Shankar How should the newly elected President Droupadi Murmu be addressed? When congress leader Adhir Chowdhury referred to her as ‘Rashtrapatni’ and claimed it was a slip of his tongue later, still minister SmritiIrani held the word as derogatory. Even when the first woman president, Pratibha Patil (2007-2012), took over, Shiv Sena supremo […]

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By Sushil Kutty Actors Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan are getting “brutally trolled”, along with Laal Singh Chadda. On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And people are loving the word ‘brutally’. Especially sub-editors, and headliners. Aamir and Kareena can only “block” the trolls. But that is fraught with risk. The next thing will be the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The number of hours worked in the world fell in the first quarter of 2022 and remained 3.8 per cent below the level of the fourth quarter of 2019 – and that is equivalent to the loss of 112 million full-time jobs. The latest ILO estimate has maintained that this represented […]

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By Dr Arun Mitra The incidence where Health Minister of Punjab rebuked the Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences and asked him to lie down on the bed with torn mattress has brought shame to the nation. Dr. Raj Bahadur Gaur, the Vice Chancellor is an upright person against whom not a […]

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By Dipankar Bhattacharya The startling recovery of more than fifty crore rupees in cash and gold from two flats belonging to an actress and reportedly a close aide to the now dropped TMC minister Partha Chatterjee has once again put the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal in the dock. The recovery of the cash […]

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The United States has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to US media outlets, in what the White House announced Monday was a “successful” operation against a target in Afghanistan. Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who became one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, was identified as a mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on […]

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Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal promised to create 10 lakh government jobs in Gujarat and a Rs 3,000 monthly unemployment allowance to young people if his government gets voted to power in the state. If AAP forms a government in Gujarat, his party will ensure that each and every unemployed youth gets a job […]

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Bihar minister Ram Surat Rai on Friday heaped praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, under whose leadership India ran the world’s biggest vaccination drive during the Covid-19 pandemic, and credited him for saving the lives of Indians. “If you are alive, the credit goes to Narendra Modi. He developed the vaccine during the covid pandemic and […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The Supreme Court verdict, last week (July 27), upholding the validity of inquiry, arrest and bail provisions of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), could not have come at a more appropriate time when as many as 122 sitting and ex-legislators are facing money laundering cases […]

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By Amulya Ganguli Mamata Banerjee’s latest troubles mean that her challenge to the BJP at the national level is petering out. After the scandal involving a formerly top-ranking minister who has now been sacked, few will credit her with being a person who can give the BJP a run for its money in 2024. Her […]

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By Sushil Kutty Forget about the 56” chest; forget about ‘vishwaguru’, answer just this one question: “What was the National Security Advisor of the Prime Minister of India doing at an inter-faith meet talking national security matters with a bunch of clerics, asking their permission to ban the radical Popular Front of India, if at […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Even though no immediate solution seems to be in sight for millions of hungry people, Sri Lanka is fast becoming a strategic flashpoint. Earlier, there were talks about different world powers playing their roles in giving Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa a safe exit from Sri Lanka by getting their consensus […]

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