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By Subrata Majumder West Bengal has so far organized four Bengal Global Summits and the fifth one is on the way in February. Sarcastically, each summit raised big hopes for investment, but all those hopes were belied. In the previous summit, big houses queued up and they were...
By Arun Srivastava Ever since the 2017 UP assembly election, BJP has been trying to counter Ambedkar’s influence by projecting some lesser known dalit leaders and trying to exploit the differences amongst dalit sub castes. The party probably feels that playing up the sub caste icons will...
By Amulya Ganguli Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into big-time politics from having been a part-time caretaker of the two family boroughs of Amethi and Rae Bareli of the Nehru-Gandhis has set the cat among the pigeons. Those in the BJP who thought that Rahul hasn’t yet matured sufficiently...
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress President Rahul Gandhi has touched the right cord by announcing at a Party rally in Raipur on Monday that the Congress, if elected to power after the coming Lok Sabha elections, will implement the minimum income programme for the poor. If the declaration...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: On the eve of Lok Sabha elections strange things are happening in both Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. Deepak Bavaria, AICC in-charge, has announced his resolve to initiate contempt proceedings against his party leaders. Bavaria made this announcement while speaking at a party...
By Aditya Aamir Malayalam actor Mohanlal is troll-meat in Kerala. “Mohanlal gets the Padmabhushan; why not actor Mammootty?” asks Social Media. Mohanlal is trolled by good trolls. The justification is Mohanlal asked for it. And what gall BJP-fronted government award him the Padmabhushan? How dare he accept saffron-tinted...
By Sushil Kutty Bribing voters from public podium! How will it be done without plunging the country’s economy in a tailspin? The economics doesn’t agree with the arithmetic; hell, the econometrics is beyond the math. But then, who cares how it’s done, so long as it’s done? It’s...
By Aditya Aamir Can the police raid the office of a political party if they receive information that accused named in a criminal investigation are holed up in the party office? What if the political party happens to be the ruling party and the Chief Minister is also...
By Fiona Edwards The Venezuelan people are facing a grave and dangerous situation, as the US dramatically escalates its campaign to oust Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Donald Trump’s decision on January 23 to recognise the unelected right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s “interim president” is confirmation that...
By Arun Srivastava Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who incidentally happens to represent Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha, should take serious note of the advisory issued by the Darul Uloom Deoband appealing to its students to avoid travelling on Republic Day if possible. The advisory was issued...