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Opposition Parties Have To Do Lot Of Homework After Karnataka Results
By Sushil Kutty NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was the last political stalwart to jump into the Karnataka electoral showdown and predict the Congress will get the Karnataka electorate’s thumbs up in the May 10 assembly elections results of which will be out by May 13 afternoon. Pawar based his...
Mothers And Babies Are Most Unsafe In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Decreasing investment in maternal and newborn health has stagnated the progress in preventing premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies globally, due to which death befalls on one every 7 seconds. Indian mothers and babies remain most unsafe both in number and its share...
Kong Yiji Story Of China Can Be Replicated In India Also As Problems Are Same
By Anjan Roy A hundred year old story has become a hot topic in China, which is finding sympathies among young people. It has been trending on the Chinese internet. A short video based on the story was viewed over three million times. It has become a huge favourite...
On Victory Day, Need To Forge Unity Of Anti-Fascist Forces Once Again
By Ben Chacko Victory Day, celebrating the surrender of Nazi Germany in Second World War, should be an occasion for international unity. Time zone differences mean a surrender effective from 11.01pm Central European Time on May 8 1945 is celebrated on May 8 in the West and May 9...
Turkey’s May 14 Election Offers A Glimmer Of Hope For The Left
By Matt Broomfield The Turkish opposition candidate challenging incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently addressed the nation in a pair of viral videos — including the most widely shared social media clip in Turkish history, which is Twitter’s most popular video outright since the start of 2022. With a typically...
Karnataka Results Will Be The Harbinger Of The 2024 Battle Mood
By S. Sethuraman An ominous silence will now descend upon Karnataka, the scene of thus far the bitterest electoral battle at the state level, with uproarious, often abusive BJP-Congress exchanges, both with high stakes for future survival. The 224-member Karnataka Assembly goes to polls on May 10 and the...
Militancy Makes Lithium Mining In J&K A Challenging Task
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to understand why the government is in such a tearing hurry to auction the recently discovered large lithium reserves in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district before the end of the current year itself. The secretary to the Union Ministry of Mines, Vivek Bharadwaj,...
Narendra Modi Has Turned The Karnataka Assembly Polls Into A Referendum On Him
By Arun Srivastava Veteran of many electoral battles, Narendra Modi, has been forced to adopt a defensive strategy in the face of critical ethical attack from Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. It may look like an incredulous argument, but the bare fact is it was in riposte to the...
Afghanistan Joining China’s BRI Programme Is A Big Diplomatic Defeat For India
By Sushil Kutty “Brotherly neighbours” China and Pakistan have been joined by Afghanistan to pin down India on CPEC. Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Islamabad on the heels of the SCO foreign ministers meeting in Goa. The Pakistan-China-Afghanistan nexus should worry the so-called Hindu nationalist government...
PM Modi Going Communal In Karnataka Shows His Desperation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has desperately raised the religious slogan ‘Bajrang Bali Ki Jai’ in the Karnataka electoral battlefield. Obviously to rescue the BJP from the danger of being defeated by the opposition alliance of the Congress and JD(S). Everyone heard the communal intonation underlying...
