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By Ashis Biswas Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh is the winner from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib parliamentary constituency, putting the central government in a fix. The government appears undecided on what should be done with him. Speculation is rife over whether he would be released on interim bail from Dibrugarh Central jail in Assam, where he is […]

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By Ashis Biswas At the end of the bitterest general elections in recent times, it is only in Assam that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition, the Congress, are broadly satisfied with the outcome. The BJP won 11 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats while the badly divided, and always under-estimated […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India, under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna, has been giving free foodgrains to 80 crore poor people who are dependent for food on government, because they don’t earn enough to support their needs for food. Their number remained the same for the last 10 years of the Modi regime. Children […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee The country’s industrial outlook for the current year as well as the next few years will depend on the stability of the new government and how the Bharatiya Janata Party deals with its alliance partners and the opposition, which will have a formidable presence in the newly-elected Parliament. At stake are several […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The NDA coalition government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just taken office, and it’s too early to predict how it will perform, even whether it will run its five-year term. It is common knowledge that India has a messy history of multi-party governments. Late BJP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee also […]

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By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi is now Prime Minister of India for the third time. He took the oath of office Sunday evening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. As many as 30 cabinet ministers, 36 ministers of state (MoS) and 5 MoS (independent charge) were also sworn in along with Narendra Modi, who seemed unusually accommodating […]

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By Sushil Kutty It is the same old story. The boringly repetitive drama of Congress leaders imploring Rahul Gandhi to take on a plum post – this time that of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The two sides never tire of the game. On one side, Congress leaders and on the other side, […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now decided to go ahead alone and has started reviewing relationship with INDIA bloc. The party’s path ahead is already embattled with legal battles, with its three key leaders – CM Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Satyendra Kumar Jain – put behind the bar. The Enforcement […]

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By K Raveendran Fuel consumers would do well to be ready to loosen their purse strings and face the post-election nuanced reality after they enjoyed a Rs 2 per litre cut in prices before the Lok Sabha elections. There has been a pattern in the price behaviour during and after every election. The most curious […]

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By James M Dorsey The coming week or two could determine Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political fate and reshape the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s Gaza war. That is, if Netanyahu fails to comply with war cabinet member Benny Gantz’s demand that the prime minister produce a plan for the post-war administration of GaIf Gantz […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra The regional satraps, JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar and the TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, have been made kingmakers by the Lok Sabha election results. With the BJP short of majority in Lok Sabha elections, no government can come to power without them. Both parties — JD(U) and TDP —have re-pledged their […]

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By Arun Srivastava It was shocking to see incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who is even followed and revered by Lord Jagannath of Puri, prostrating before two mortal politicians Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu for their support to satiate his desire for becoming prime minister for third consecutive term. During a phase when the saints and […]

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By Sushil Kutty Nothing odd, but reports speak of unrest in the ranks of the Shinde Shiv Sena. The Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena looks the better bet. Amidst this, the crowning of Narendra Damodardas Modi as the leader of the NDA parliamentary party. Were the Shinde Sena MPs present in the Central Hall of the […]

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By Hansgeorg Hermann PARIS: As the European Parliament elections are on from June 6 to June 9, the bourgeois party Les Republicains, founded by Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president and adviser to current President Emmanuel Macron, is plummeting, as is the latter’s Renaissance formation. So far, Le Penʼs Rassemblement National, with its top candidate and […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis under PM Narendra Modi’s first two terms since 2014, is most likely to continue in his third term , unless the jobless growth model is changed. Out of about one billion working age population, the number of people in employment has been hovering around 40 crore for the […]

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Prominent allies on Friday proposed the name of Narendra Modi as the leader of NDA, clearing the decks for him to become the prime minister for a third consecutive term. Modi’s name as leader of NDA parliamentary party was proposed by Rajnath Singh and supported by Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, and others during the meeting on Friday at […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty In a span of three days this week, three largely populated countries — South Africa, Mexico and India got the results from the national elections and all three signalled the triumphant march of the vibrant democracy in each country. The results showed how the vigilant electorate punished the majority Hindu right party […]

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RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should utilise his position as “kingmaker” in the NDA to ensure special status for Bihar. On Wednesday, photos of the RJD leader sitting with his former boss on a flight to Delhi went viral on social media. Both NDA and INDIA partners flew […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 2024 Lok Sabha elections have brought some cheers to the Left block comprising CPI, CPI(M) and the CPI(ML)-L as after a long gap, three members have been elected from the Hindi heartland states- two from Bihar belonging to the CPI(ML)-L and one from Rajasthan belonging to the CPI(M). The total strength […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Democracy is the biggest winner in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as the results declared on June 4 underline the diversity in the political views of the largest democracy of the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was the one man mascot of the ruling party BJP has got his biggest rebuff […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty As expected, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority in the national elections in South Africa held on May 29 paving the way for the formation of a coalition government as the leading partner after its uninterrupted rule for thirty years since the holding of first elections in 1994 after […]

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By Kalyani Shankar After the seven-phase elections, the June 1 exit polls indicate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely win big. The INDIA block, a coalition of regional parties, also competed, but its chances were slim. The results on January 4 will reveal the actual winner. Election results often surprise. In 2004, the U.P.A. […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Apprehensions and expectations of India’s Central Trade Unions (CTUs) have reached their climax at the completion of the Lok Sabha elections on June 1, 2024. Since the fate of trade unionism and the workers’ rights amidst the rising working poverty in the country much depends on the outcome of the election […]

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By K Raveendran It may be time for an Anna Hazare-type agitation to reclaim the integrity and independence of the Election Commission, completely compromised by the incumbent commission like never before. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar is no T N Seshan, who proved that the Election Commission had enough powers not to let anyone interfere […]

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The Congress’s decision to skip exit poll debates has provided fresh ammunition to the BJP ahead of the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha election, in which the party is hoping for a historic third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After the announcement by senior Congress leader Pawan Khera, both BJP chief […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2024 has brought India’s faultlines in sharp focus – which included the falling credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in ensuring free and fair election, the apparent threat to democracy and the Constitution, widening chasm between the religious majority and minorities, unprecedented level […]

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Delhi government has requested the Supreme Court for additional water supply from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh for a month amid a severe shortage in the national capital. In its petition, Delhi said that the need for water has increased in the national capital amid sweltering heat. “Delhi’s need for water has increased in […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha Election 2024 campaign ended on Thursday May 30, but after raising unprecedented level of political dust which will take much longer time beyond its result on June 4 to settle. Irrespective of who or which political party or alliance wins, people will continue to suffer from the “We and […]

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was shocked to learn that a former member of his staff was detained at the Delhi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle gold. Shiv Prasad, an aide of Tharoor, was caught at the IGI Airport with gold worth Rs 35 lakh. Tharoor said that he supports the authorities in […]

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ISIS-K has called for a “Lone Wolf” attack on the India-Pakistan World Cup Cricket match here next month, a top police official has warned while putting security on high alert. In a video that has gone global, the terror group is “calling for that ‘Lone Wolf’ to act out”, said Patrick Ryder, the Police Commissioner […]

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By K Raveendran The credibility and trustworthiness of the Election Commission of India (ECI) have hit a new low in the current Lok Sabha elections and the situation has come to such a pass that it cannot be retrieved without certain cataclysmic changes in the system. India’s election commission had won the world’s admiration for […]

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  The Supreme Court will not hear Arvind Kejriwal’s request seeking a 7-day extension of his interim bail in a corruption case linked to the Delhi liquor policy. The Court last month granted interim bail to Kejriwal to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections and had asked him to surrender on June 2, a day […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty For Latin American Left as also the Global Left, there seems to be a welcome news waiting on June 2 as nearly 100 million voters of Mexico including a record number of first timers will be polling to elect a new President as also many other positions including 628 member Parliament. All […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Contrary to the wide publicity that the latest X-Putin agreement will push for “a comprehensive, sustainable and just settlement” of the Ukraine-Russia conflict through peaceful means, the document throws little light on how to solve the situation within a possible timeframe. China merely talks about a dialogue on a peaceful Ukraine war […]

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