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Bypoll Results Show Congress Emerging Stronger In The States

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress winning three Vidhan Sabha Constituencies and the BJP and its ally winning two in the byelections held for five seats in four states’ legislative assemblies –Maharashtra, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu – is defeat a clear indication of the Congress emerging stronger vis-à-vis...

Mar 3 · >

Supreme Court Order On Composition Of Election Commission Is A Positive Step

By Sushil Kutty Before the year is out there will be more than one troubling contretemp for the Bharatiya Janata Party. For the Supreme Court, and for the Modi government, too. Both are in the middle of a war over the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and his...

Mar 3 · >

Modi Ecosystem Presenting Distorted Image Of Tripura Poll Verdict

By Arun Srivastava Riding on the back of the regional forces in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the political ecosystem of the BJP has put its entire effort and resources into projecting Narendra Modi as the invincible leader and new face of the New India. The BJP megaphones in the media...

Mar 3 · >

Eye On Lok Sabha 2024 Polls, Congress Renews Focus On Social Justice

By Rahil Nora Chopra In an attempt to revive the politics of social justice before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress made 85 amendments in its constitution at its 85th plenary session, seeking to provide 50 percent reservation to scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), other backward classes...

Mar 3 · >

Suspension Of Start By President Putin Imparts A New Dimension To Ukraine War

By Prabir Purkayastha The Ukraine War has now completed one year. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of the war is that the New START, the last remaining arms control agreement on nuclear weapons and missiles, has also gone into limbo. On February 21, President Putin announced that Russia has...

Mar 3 · >

Trinamool Congress Has Got A Big Jolt In State Assembly Elections

By Ashis Biswas Ironically, opposition parties in India were further divided by the outcome of Assembly elections in three Northeastern states, not to mention the Sagardighi seat by- election in West Bengal. In broad terms, the Left parties and the Indian National Congress (INC) fared much better than their...

Mar 2 · >

DMK Supremo M K Stalin’s Call For Broadest Unity Of Opposition Against BJP Is The Need Of The Hour

By Binoy Biswam The decisive battle is coming closer. In this battle the very idea of India is at stake. The forces, which control political power since 2014, are adamant to prepare the ground in their favour. They have mobilized all their resources to win the battle once again. ...

Mar 2 · >

RBI Is Yet To Find A Viable Policy Of Balancing Both Inflation And Growth

By Anjan Roy The latest GDP figures show that the Indian economy is slowing down. The last quarterly figures indicted national income grew by 4.4%, which was lower than in the preceding two quarters. This was immediately ascribed to the hikes in interest rates by the Reserve Bank for...

Mar 2 · >

New Netanyahu Govt In Israel Has Intensified Attacks Against Palestinians

By Prakash Karat Ever since Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government comprising far-right and ultra-orthodox religious parties, at the end of last year, there has been a spate of attacks by the Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. The Netanyahu government has declared...

Mar 2 · >

Narendra Modi’s Backing To Yediyurappa Signals Nod To Communal Politics

By Arun Srivastava Eulogy of senior BJP leader B S Yediyurappa as the strongest and tallest political figure from the Lingayat community by the prime minister Narendra Modi early this week at a public meeting certainly is an ominous indicator of the political development that would entail in the...

Mar 2 · >
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