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Women Voters Will Play A Key Role In The 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By Kalyani Shankar Can Women voters decide the upcoming 2024 General elections? Their growing number of voters and favourable legislation, such as the one-third reservation for women in Parliament and legislatures, make them an important segment. Political parties are trying to attract women voters, a critical segment. To do...
Rahul Gandhi In The Crosshairs Of Overrated Political Pundits
By Sushil Kutty A “diligent political columnist” writes that any hope of sending Prime Minister Narendra Modi packing is out the window because the Congress party’s ‘Nyay Patra’ is pitted with Modi’s guarantees and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should stop “devitalizing” key words in the Congress campaign with “overuse”....
Health Of The Nation In Dire Situation, Healthcare Government’s Responsibility
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Healthcare is government responsibility, especially at a time when health of the nation is in dire situation and more than 97 crore people of the country can’t afford even healthy food as per the World Bank Atlas. In this backdrop, the Health of the Nation...
Tharoor Has A Tough Rival In CPI’s Raveendran With BJP’s Rajeev Way Behind
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The entry of CPI stalwart Pannian Raveendran in the race for Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency has made it a prestigious and no-holds-barred battle. Three-time winner Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor is trying to make it four in a row. BJP nominee Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar is...
2024 Lok Sabha Polls In Bengal Mainly Bipolar Between TMC And BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra The ever volatile Lok Sabha poll campaign in West Bengal is in full swing now as the main opposition in the state BJP and the other combine Left Front-Congress have announced most of their candidates. There is a fourth contestant Indian Secular Front (ISF) which broke...
European Union’s Pro-Far Right Future After June Elections Is Planned
By Francesca De Benedetti Forget the “cordon sanitaire” against the far right. Today, European neoliberalism is defended by a cordon into which such forces have already been integrated. The European Union’s future is being built well before citizens actually cast their votes on the first weekend of June: the...
Six Months After October 7, Israel Expands Its Area Of Confrontation Further
By Girish Linganna Six months have passed since the beginning of Israel-Hamas war on October 7 last year, but instead of agreeing to the UN ceasefire plan, Prime Minister Netanyahu has expanded the confrontation to Syria by bombing the Iranian embassy in Damascus. On April 1, an alleged Israeli...
Govt To Overhaul Bilateral Treaties To Woo Foreign Investors
NEW DELHI: To create a more investor-friendly climate, the government has decided to revisit its approach to bilateral investment treaties (BITs). The move is triggered by the fact that the BIT text adopted by India after comprehensive review in 2016 has found few takers among key trading partners. According...
Public-Sector Banks May Be Allowed To Transfer Unclaimed Shares To IEPF
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry is considering amending the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970, which governs public sector banks (PSBs), to make suitable provisions for allowing PSBs to transfer shares to the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) when dividends of such shares remain unclaimed...
Adani Group To Invest Rs 2.3 Trillion In Renewable Energy, Manufacturing Capacity
KHAVDA/AHMEDABAD (GUJARAT): Adani Group will invest about Rs 2.3 trillion through 2030 in India’s most ambitious renewable energy expansion and solar and wind manufacturing capacity addition ever as it shrugs off a short-seller attack to pursue its trademark rapid growth plans. Adani Green Energy Ltd, India’s largest renewable energy...
