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Bengal Congress In Utter Confusion Over Mamata’s Olive Branch To The Party
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Congress national leadership has a tough task ahead of it to make some of its West Bengal unit leaders cooperate with Trinamool Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Given earlier intra-party differences coupled with panchayat election clashes, the bonhomie between Trinamool Congress supremo...
Supreme Court CJI’s Observation On Govt Failure In Manipur Is A Warning To PM
By Sushil Kutty We can do without #ModiVsChandrachud, the entire lot of us bifurcated people of India. The fight is not imaginary and is not limited to social media alone. The perception that the CJI is waging an all-out war against the Prime Minister and is weighing...
Official Data On The Decline In Poverty In India Highly Questionable
By Dr.Gyan Pathak Several recent studies have claimed that India has made significant progress in reducing poverty during the decades leading up to the pandemic in 2020, however, a recent Staff Paper prepared in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the magnitude of the decline in poverty...
Samajwadi Party To Launch Massive Campaigns In Favour Of Caste Census
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh BJP its main rival Samajwadi Party are busy in building up alliances with smaller parties and various caste groups to capture maximum seats for 2024 Lok Sabha polls from the state. UP sends 80 MP’s toLok Sabha BJP took the initiative...
Priyanka Gandhi’s Meeting In Gwalior Raises Poll Tempo In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia As the dates of the Vidhan Sabha elections are approaching, both the BJP and Congress, the two major contenders have stepped up their propaganda. They are bringing their stalwarts to influence the voters in their favour. The Congress is using the charismatic personality...
Crackdown On Drugs, Immigration From Myanmar Contribute To Violence In Manipur
By Girish Linganna Ethnic violence has thrown Manipur, India’s attractive state bordering Myanmar, into turmoil. Persistent clashes between the Meiteis and Kukis for over two months have left both feeling besieged. The neighboring villages of these communities appear to be particularly susceptible to attacks. A journalist from...
Opposition Front ‘India’ Should Be Ready For A Snap Election By 2023 End
By Nitya Chakraborty If indications from the think-tanks closer to the BJP are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of advisers are processing a number of options to ensure that the newly set upfront of the anti-BJP parties – INDIA – does not get...
Supreme Court Approach In Teesta Case Opens Up Array Of Possibilities In Rahul’s Case
By K Raveendran A Supreme Court bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K Mishra are set to take up the crucial hearing of Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against the upholding of his conviction by the Gujarat High Court on August 4. The apex court has issued...
Unemployment Likely To Rise Over 8.4 Per Cent By July End
By Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in India has been rising this month. As on July 21, unemployment rate on the basis of 30 days moving average rose to 8.4 per cent which is over 0.4 per cent more than the last month, according to the latest CMIE...
Janata Dal(S) Seeking Alliance With BJP In Karnataka To Save Its State Outfit
By Sushil Kutty Janata Dal (S) must have compulsions for wanting an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2024 general elections. For the record, the BJP, too, will not look askance at a tie-up with the Janata Dal (S). At this point in time, and right...
Opposition Alliance Against BJP Is Facing Many Hurdles In Uttar Pradesh
By Harihar Swarup Uttar Pradesh’s political waters are calm, for now. Or, perhaps, that is just how it seems, as no grand alliances have been formed, no active partnerships sought, and there has been no getting together of likeminded parties. The 2024 elections are still months away. That...
Hatred Breeds Socio Cultural And Mental Aberrations All Along
By Dr. Arun Mitra The video showing two women being paraded naked and molested by an unruly mob of males in Manipur has shocked the whole country. It has brought shame to us worldwide. This has also exposed hollowness in our society which takes pride in worshiping women...
Big Defeat Of Tories In Two By Elections Gives A Big Jolt To British PM Rishi Sunak
By Arun Srivastava Conservatives lost two seats in the parliamentary by-elections in Britain this week. Conservative victory from Boris Johnson’s old set of Uxbridge and South Ruislip has come as a face saver for the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. With this victory Sunak could avoid a...
Hollywood Strike is a Labor vs. Capital struggle in the New Economy
By Robert Reich It’s tempting to view the strike underway by Hollywood writers and TV and film actors against the studios as a war between wealthy Hollywood elites. But that’s not at all the case. In fact, what’s happening now in Hollywood is a microcosm of what’s happening...
Quantifying Political Worth Of NDA And I.N.D.I.A Is Puzzling
By Dr.Gyan Pathak July 18, 2023 proved to be significant in recent political history of India, especially in the last decade since advent of BJP leader Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India in 2014. The opposition alliance I.N.D.I.A was formed with 26 political parties, while NDA...
Uncertainty About Rahul Gandhi Continues As Defamation Case Is Deferred To August 4
By Sushil Kutty There is always a chance that justices may ask to be recused from a case involving a Congress luminary because there is no saying which justices’ father, mother, uncle, grandfather, grandmother wasn’t affiliated with the hoary old party? Just like Justice B R Gavai...
Akhilesh To Lead ‘India’ Against NDA In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The latest political buzz is that the SamajwadiParty is likely to lead the Mahagathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. While talk of an alliance has been recurrent, the major difference this time is the interaction between the opposition parties in Bengaluru,which gave clear indications of Samajwadi...
Manipur Video Of Heinous Sexual Assault On Kuki Women Is India’s Shame
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again mouthed empty shallow words before the people of India when he said, “Today, when I have come among you and am standing near this temple of democracy, then my heart is full of pain, full of anger. The incident...
