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Mafia Induced Violence In West Bengal Has A Long Political History
By Ashis Biswas The Hon’ble Calcutta High Court’s decision to entrust the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)with the power to probe the ghastly Birbhum village massacre instead of leaving the job to the Bengal police, is commendable: it makes any cover-up job planned by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) more...
Move For A Dedicated Indian Environment Services Within Civil Services
By Harsh Mahaseth and Gauri Goel The discourse that arose in the Supreme Court in January this year about the creation of an Indian Environment Services has its origins in a report by a high-level committee that was headed by former Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian. The committee was established...
Signals Emanating From Chinese Foreign Minister’s Visit Indicate India’s Confidence
By Anjan Roy If you go into the details of the way the unannounced visit of the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, was handled in New Delhi on Friday, India was clearly “cold shouldering” the initiative. It is important to remember the visit was from the foreign minister of...
Prime Minister Now Favours Holding Of Simultaneous Polls In Centre, States
By Harihar Swarup Now that the Narendra Modi government is firmly in saddle, it has re-opened the issue of linking Lok Sabha and assembly elections as was the practice till 1967. The argument advanced in favour of linking both elections are in these lines. It is argued that one...
Ukraine Imbroglio Brings India Collateral Oil Benefits
By K Raveendran With self-interest having been the overarching consideration of US policies, whether domestic or international, or even relating to third party issues, Washington understands India’s Ukraine policy as much as New Delhi does. That explains why the US has been circumspect in criticising India for its stand...
2024 Lok Sabha Polls Calculation Formed The Basis For Yogi’s Ministry
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP has started preparations for 2024 Lok Sabha elections which is evident from w from rainbow coalition of various caste and social engineering reflected in ministry formation of Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath in Uttar Pradesh. Once again BJP has repeated two deputy chief Ministers giving...
Modi Government Must Initiate Talks With Central Trade Unions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two-day workers strike across India on March 28-29 on the call of the joint platform of 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC – and Sectoral Federations and Associations is getting larger support, barring from...
BJP To Improve Its Position In North East Through Rajya Sabha Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha After the saffron party’s recent victory in the assembly polls, particularly in the northeastern state of Manipur, it was expected that there would be a positive impact in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the northeast, which financially depends mostly on the Centre. The return...
Iran Nuclear Deal As White House Cushion For Russian Embargo
By Matein Khalid While I have been uber-bullish on Brent crude and seven sister oil and gas supermajors ever since last summer, I never imagined the sheer scale of the supply shock that the global wet barrel market endured after President Biden imposed sanctions on Russian energy exports to...
Only A Course Correction Can Ensure Some Form Of Credibility To Imran
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The very mention of Pakistan brings up the image of a country infested with religious fanatics, fundamentalists, terrorists where state actors such as ISI and Pakistan military provide support to these non-state entities. No prime minister in Pakistan has ever completed a full five-year term....
