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Govt Sets Coal Production Target Of 170 Million Tonnes For FY25
NEW DELHI: The government has set the target of producing 170 million tonnes of coal from captive and commercial coal blocks in the country during the current financial year. In FY24, captive and commercial coal blocks produced 147.12 million tonnes (MT) of dry fuel, 26 per cent higher from...
Supreme Court Must Intervene To Restrain Central Agencies Operations Against Opposition Till June 1
By Nitya Chakraborty It may be a bit late as only six days are left for the beginning of the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19, but still it is high time that the Supreme Court intervenes to ensure level playing field for the opposition...
Narendra Modi’s Communal Campaigning Violates Model Code Of Conduct
By P. Sudhir The election campaign of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is resorting to open appeals based on religion. It has made the Ram temple an election issue and dubbed some of the opposition parties as being against the temple and Lord Ram. This is...
Rahul’s Nyay Yatra Paying Dividend To Congress In North East
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All the eight states in the North Eastern part of the country will go for poll in the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 on April 19, covering 14 Lok Sabha Constituencies out of 25 in the region.BJP seems to have upper hand in...
Narendra Modi Will Resort To Any Means To Win Lok Sabha Election
By Arun Srivastava In the drawing room of a famous Bengali writer, who is certainly not known to have a strong anti-system views, in the posh locality of politically sensitive South Calcutta on Sunday, a group of academics, filmmakers, retired IPS and army officers, in a pensive mood, are...
AAP’s Door-To-Door Drive, Congress Candidates Soon For May 25 LS Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The AAP on 9 April initiated a door-to-door drive in Delhi’s Shahdara as part of its “Jail ka Jawab Vote se” campaign to seek support for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail. Under the campaign, AAP leaders will visit every...
Bengal Govt-BSF Spat Over Guarding Of Borders Helps Smugglers
By Ashis Biswas In India, it would be hard to name any political party that attacks the Border Security Force (BSF) organisation more viciously than the Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal-based Trinamool Congress (TMC), through its statements and allegations. This being a general election year, the political ramifications of the TMC’s...
Israel-Iran Confrontation May Help Netanyahu To Appease President Biden
By Girish Linganna Recently, tensions have surged between Iran and Israel. On Twitter, Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated that Israel’s reported attack on a site within an Iranian embassy area in Damascus— capital of Syria and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities—was tantamount to aggression...
Workers Rise Up Against Finland’s Right-Wing Pro-NATO Government
By Mark Gruenberg HELSINKI: Shades of the far-right British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher more than 40 years ago: After just over a year in office, Finland’s right-wing, pro-NATO Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a supporter of sending weapons to Ukraine, is trying to bust Finnish unions through wide curbs on...
ADB Raises FY25 India Growth Forecast To 7 Per Cent On Investments, Consumer Demand
NEW DELHI: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday upgraded India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for 2024-25 (FY25) to 7 per cent from 6.7 per cent earlier, citing better prospects of robust public and private investment and strong services sector growth. However, it said unanticipated global shocks,...
