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Dharmendra Pradhan Seeks CM Nitish Kumar’s Nod On Murmu

By Rahil Nora Chopra Senior BJP functionary and union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Tuesday. According to sources in the BJP, the meeting is being deemed important in the context of the upcoming Presidential polls. Moreover, in the wake of the...

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Trinamool Congress MLA Comparing Mamata With Sarada Devi Creates Furore

By Ashis Biswas Once more, there is confirmation of the familiar public plaint that in their zeal to nestle ever closer to the ‘supreme ‘leader of the moment by using barefaced flattery, practicing   politicians often cross all limits. Mostly the outcome is amusing, even as the glorified bigwigs squirm...

Jul 1 · >

Supreme Court Has Failed To Secure Justice For Gujarat Riot Victims

By Krishna Jha We never had experience of loss of democracy…Living in our multiplicity, nobody has ever forced us to violate the cultural limits. We have never been isolated from the other, in fact it never had a separate identity. Yet, in the third decade of the twentieth century,...

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Agnipath Scheme Challenges All Traditions Of Indian Military Service

Dr Yugal Rayalu The military recruitment drives are ‘festive times’ in some of the states in north India. Village elders bless the youth going for the tests. Women folk would send the sons (now daughters too) with tilak and best wishes. In some of the families it is the...

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Public Sector General Insurance Unions Reject Wage Revision Offer

                                                              By Trilok Singh The Joint Forum of Trade Unions and Associations in the public sector general insurance companies, having around 58,000 employees and officers, have unanimously rejected the offers given by the General Insurers Public Sector Associations of India (GIPSA) management. The long-pending wage revision talks between the...

Jul 1 · >

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Is Under Siege By BJP Leadership

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Having emboldened by the success in Maharshtra, the BJP has just started its political game in Jharkhand to destabilize the Mahagathbandhan government led by JMM. Chief Minister Hemant Soren has just betrayed his commitment towards opposition unity and ditched the anti-BJP political parties by announcing...

Jun 30 · >

Testing Time For Uddhav Thackeray As The Battle For Shiv Sena Control Begins

By Sushil Kutty What next for Shiv Sena? Will the Eknath Shinde faction grab the party from “rightful owners”, the Thackeray’s, and run with it? That must be in Shinde’s mind. The fellow is no angel. It requires a stout mean heart to rebel and run roughshod over shallow...

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Pakistan Struggling Hard To Secure Emergency Financial Aid From IMF

By Anjan Roy About a week back, Pakistan’s Finance minister was urging its citizens to consume less tea as the country was scraping the bottom of the barrel to organise even essential imports. Foreign exchange reserves had sunk to cover just a few days imports. Every leaf of tea...

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Punish Culprits For Gruesome Killing Of Tailor In Udaipur

By Sitaram Yechury The horrendous killing in Udaipur has been universally condemned. While the authorities have acted in rounding up those involved, the culprits must receive severe punishment. The growing incendiary atmosphere of hate and violence in the country is dehumanising our society. This spiral of hate must end....

Jun 30 · >

Samajwadi Party Takes Lessons From Defeat In Bypolls In Uttar Pradesh

By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav blamed BJP government gross misuse of official machinery and breakdown of democratic institutions to win Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha by-elections. Akhilesh Yadav said that voters of Azamgarh and Rampur we’re in favour of Samajwadi Party but BJP government...

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