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Petrol @ Rs 15 Per Litre Proposal Before Election 2024 Is Another Jumla
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a rally organized in Pratapgarh on July 4, 2023 in the poll-bound state Rajasthan, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India Nitin Gadkari, has said that an innovative proposal has been made to reduce the price of petrol to Rs 15...
Bengal Panchayat Poll Violence Points To Shifts In TMC Support Base
By Arun Srivastava The nature and character of the West Bengal panchayat poll violence, which claimed 17 lives, two less than the 2018 poll violence, underscores an ominous development for the ruling Trinamool Congress, was at the receiving end of the brutality. This also underlines a significant shift in...
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi Is Acting As A Pawn In BJP Gameplan For 2024 Polls
By S Sethuraman The long and bitter exchanges between DMK leaders and Governor R N Ravi in Tamil Nadu over DMK “ideology” and other policy differences have led to Chief Minister M K Stalin taking the matter to President Draupadi Murmu. He dubbed Mr Ravi “biased and unfit” to...
Brazilian President Lula Takes The Lead In Convening Regional Summit On Amazon Forests
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula took a major step in protecting the climate of Amazon rainforest by announcing the holding of a regional summit in August this year. President Lula in his election manifesto last year before the Presidential, elections...
Sharad Pawar Has The Potential To Rebuild NCP Despite His Age And Health Issues
By Sushil Kutty The 82-year-old Sharad Pawar’s quest to rebuild the Nationalist Congress Party is a clear and present danger to the BJP’s “Mission Phir Ek baar Modi Sarkar”. Nephew Ajit Pawar’s unsolicited advice that the aging Sharad Pawar should retire was met with daughter Supriya Sule’s retort that...
China Launches Mineral War Against USA By Limiting Exports Of Two Products
By Girish Linganna China’s recent move to limit the export of two minerals crucial for semiconductors, solar panels, and missile systems serves as a significant reminder of its strong control over global mineral resources. This action also serves as a warning, indicating China’s readiness to utilize these resources as...
India’s IIT’s Are Going Global Focusing On The Demand In Developing Countries
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India and Tanzania signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday to establish the first overseas branch of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Tanzania. The IIT Tanzania campus is scheduled to open its doors in October 2023 and will welcome an inaugural...
UK’s Strong Support Bolsters India’s Case For Permanent Membership Of UN Security Council
By Tirthankar Mitra It has been years since India has been trying to find a seat in United Nations Security Council. That India along with several other nations should find a place in UNSC has again been raised though the aspirant countries have nothing to do with it. The...
Ruling BJP Gets Battle-Ready For 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
By S. Sethuraman Political turbulence in Maharashtra and ruling BJP’s military-style command to fight to hold power at all levels after 2024 Lok Sabha polls and charging all opposition and anything else on the way as corruption, characterise the national scene amid concerns for survival of Indian Democracy. The...
Modi Government Disrupts Employers’ And Workers’ Organisations
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Union Government of India goes on disrupting the employers’ and workers’ organisations’ independence by interfering in their internal processes and thereby worsening the fate of workers in a fast-changing world of work. This attitude of the Centre has even been...
Gujarat High Court Has Made A Mockery Of Justice In Rahul Gandhi Case
By Sushil Kutty The Gujarat High Court has said its piece on the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Modi surname defamation case. It does not take genius to deduct that the judge does not hold a candle for the disqualified MP. Just like BJP spokesperson Shehzad...
Supreme Court To Examine Key Question About Privacy In Upcoming Case
By K Raveendran With the Supreme Court repeatedly upholding privacy as a fundamental right, it has become a serious challenge for lawmakers, law enforcers and even the courts to deal with enforcement of rules and regulations that often encroach upon this right of the citizens. The task has been...
Opposition Conclave At Patna Achieved Success Due To Astute Handling By Nitish Kumar
By Harihar Swarup The air in Patna was thick with pre-monsoon moisture and a buzz about a meeting that could heavily impact next year’s Lok Sabha elections. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who played host at his 1 Anne Marg residence, had posters of several opposition party leaders put up...
The Future Of India Depends On Quality Of Its Education System
By Girish Linganna Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, recently visited the White House representing one of the world’s rapidly growing major economies. With an annual growth rate of 6%, India is currently the fifth-largest economy globally. The country’s technology industry is thriving, and there is a significant focus on...
China, Others Grappling With Understanding Meaning Of Wagner Group Revolt
By James M Dorsey The sigh of relief in a swath of land stretching from China to Africa’s Atlantic coast was audible when Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch who heads the Wagner Group, a state-funded private military company, called off his mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s military and security...
Former U.S. Officials Hold ‘Secret’ Talks With Russia To End Ukraine War
By C.J. Atkins A group of former top U.S. diplomats has been conducting secret peace talks with officials at the highest level of the Russian government since at least April with the goal of negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. That according to NBC News, which published...
Congress Is Approaching State Assembly Elections With More Unity And Better Prospects
By Sushil Kutty Finally, the Congress is on track to win Rajasthan after the Bharatiya Janata Party poured urine over its prospects in Madhya Pradesh which along with Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are among five states that will go to polls before the 2024 general elections. So, has Sachin Pilot’s...
Centre Defaming Mamata Government, Erecting Administrative Hurdles
By Arun Srivastava It is for the people of West Bengal to decipher the real nature of what the TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee observed about the Governor: “A man of C V Ananda Bose’s ‘intellect, wisdom and understanding of democratic values and the Constitution’ was needed more in...
