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Chinese Business In India Is Ballooning Despite Restrictions
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing presence of Chinese industrial investors in India despite the so-called government restrictions is more alarming than Chinese spy balloons over the Indian sky (detected by the US) and spy ships close to its territorial water. These Chinese industrial investors pose a big threat to...
There Is A Strategy Behind Arvind Kejriwal’s Sudden Personal Attacks Against PM
By Sushil Kutty Ten years is a long time in politics. Ahead of the watershed 2014 general elections, the two main players in the reckoning were Gujarat-model famous Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi whose sole claim to political relevance was dynasty. Also trying to edge in sideways,...
Russia’s Planned N-Arms Deployment In Belarus
By Girish Linganna US President Joe Biden, on Tuesday, March 28, came down heavily on a Russian plan to deploy nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, terming it “dangerous” talk. Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced last week that Russia planned to deploy in the neighbouring state tactical, small-yield N-arms...
India Losing Its Influence In Sri Lanka Too, After Bhutan And Nepal
By Ashis Biswas During the tenure of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government, India’s diplomatic influence and outreach have noticeably declined within its immediate South Asian neighbourhood. After the wake-up call on the Doklam stand-off from Bhutan, now comes news that temples and ancient cultural/traditional holy sites...
Communal Violence In Bihar And Bengal On Ramnavami Has A Planned Design
By Arun Srivastava It was not a coincidence instead a well-designed subterfuge to polarise the Hindu voters just a year ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election. While on April 1, the day people usually celebrate the Fools’ Day, Narendra Modi cracked a vicious and spiteful joke in Bhopal,...
Samajwadi Party And BSP Fighting Each Other In Uttar Pradesh Over Poaching
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are engaged in a big fight over poaching of each other’s core voters to enlarge the vote share to face local bodies polls and later on 2024 Lok Sabha polls. There is realisation in Samajwadi Party that with the...
India’s Declining Donkey Population Is Facing An Existential Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s donkeys are facing existential crisis. Their population has suffered about 90 per cent drop in the last three decades, and a drastic 61 per cent between 2012 and 2019. Concerns have repeatedly been raised, however, no comprehensive conservation programme has yet been initiated by...
Terrorist angle in attack in bogey of running train in Kerala
Three people were killed and many suffered burn injuries after an unidentified person poured petrol on co-passengers and set them afire inside the D-1 coach of the Alapuzha-Kannur Express around 9.50 pm on Sunday after the train left Kozhikode railway station. Police has police recovered the assailant’s visuals recovered...
It May Be Time For RBI To Decouple From Policies Set By U.S. Federal Reserve
By K Raveendran With the US Federal Reserve set to continue raising interest rates to combat record inflation rates, the highest in 40 years, there are calls that the Reserve Bank of India deviate from its traditional policy of mirroring the US interest rate hikes. The RBI has effected...
Congress Is Steadily Finding More Allies Despite Some Differences
By Harihar Swarup As we head into another massive electoral season, starting with Karnataka assembly polls on May 10 and ending with the Lok Sabha 12 months later; two parallel political processes are at work. These processes will play out in the coming months as the main actors figure...
