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By Sankar Ray The price of a vote is estimated at € 6 for the legislative elections, and € 32 for the municipal polls in France, according to a working paper ‘The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France 1993-2014’, scheduled to be published in February 2019 and,...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have started preparations for the Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. At present Congress holds only three seats while the BJP’s tally is 26. The Congress won only two seats in the 2014 general elections. The victorious candidates were Kamal Nath...
By Kalyani Shankar While the Opposition has been touting a Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), what is happening on the ground is quite different. It is quite clear now that a Grand Alliance is unlikely and instead the parties are inclined to go for state-specific alliances. This is because the...
By Sushil Kutty Behen Mayawati marked her birthday, January 15, with a presser and for millions of BSP supporters, it is ‘Waka Waka’, which translates to ‘this time’, and this election season it’s ‘this one for Prime Minister’. Never before in Indian electoral history have so many set...
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The Measles and Rubella immunisation campaign is going to be rolled out from tomorrow. The campaign will be run for one month. This is part of the nationwide Measles and Rubella immunisation campaign, under which all children from 9 months to 15 years will be...
By Ben Chacko Thousands marched through Berlin on January 13 to pay their respects 100 years after the brutal murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht on January 15, 1919. Socialists from all corners of Germany and many foreign countries laid red flowers at the tombs of...
Civil Court cannot interfere in matters in which powers have been granted to the NCLT –The Supreme Court reaffirmed the jurisdiction of the NCLT in the matters for which powers have been granted to it. The case raised the question as to a dispute of title to shares should...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The Parliament has passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth) Amendment Bill, 2019, which sought to amend Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution, by providing 10 per cent reservation in the public employment and higher education for the economically weaker sections. The economically weaker...
By Ashis Biswas Even as Assam and parts of the Northeast remain embroiled in vigorous protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, one hopeful sign is that new ideas to arrive at a balanced solution have been put forward. The fact that there has been no major outbreak...
By Amulya Ganguli As the humiliating treatment of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the matter of seat distribution for the parliamentary polls, and the party’s defiant response show, the 134-year political patriarch is currently battling both...