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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Kamal Nath and his Member of Parliament son Nakul Nath suffered great set back when their several loyalists severed their ties with Congress to embrace BJP. This was the happy moment for the BJP which created possibility of snatching only Lok Sabha seat which...
By Girish Linganna On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called out the DMK party for not being consistent about the Katchatheevu island issue. He said new information has shown the party’s true colors. Before this, he had also pointed out that the Congress party gave away the island to...
By Sushil Kutty External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is least bothered about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his painful trials and tribulations, it doesn’t matter if the world’s big powers are bothered about the manner in which Kejriwal is being treated in poll-bound India with all the accompaniments...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Right wing President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party got a major jolt in the Sunday’s local elections as the main opposition made huge gains at the cost of the ruling party candidates, apart from consolidating their hold in their own areas. The authoritarian...
By Nantoo Banerjee President Vladimir Putin’s record fifth term in office is good news for both Russia and India although there was absolutely no doubt about Putin’s registering thumping victory in the election, last month. Diplomatically, India has always maintained a pro-Russia stance in international forums despite its growing...
By Kalyani Shankar 2024 is election year in 64 countries, such as India, the US, the UK and the European Union, Mexico and South Africa. Political advertising is increasing worldwide. Political parties and candidates often use negative campaigns to make themselves appear better and their opponents weaker. Parties have...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Three incidents of March 21 have significantly altered the political narrative for the Lok Sabha Election 2024 – First, the chief opposition Congress informed the nation that their bank accounts have been frozen; Secondly, under the direction of the Supreme Court of India all details...
By Sushil Kutty The Israeli Defense Forces struck a Palestinian Islamic Jihad command center in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balahon Sunday. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in no mood to listen to US requests to steer clear of Rafah,...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Despite assurances of a more lenient rule following their ascent to power, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which is also known as Taliban (Pashto for “students”) have intensified restrictions on various aspects of women’s lives. Women in Afghanistan face a multitude of constraints, including exclusion...
By Arun Srivastava Despite nursing the unpleasant realisation that JD(U) of Nitish Kumar and LJP of Chirag Paswan will not succeed in turning peoples’ disposition in the favour of the saffron ecosystem and help BJP retain its 2019 winning seats, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenants in the...
By Nilanjan Banik Over the last one decade India is witnessing the emergence of oligopolistic market structure. Oligopoly, characterized by a few large firms dominating an industry, has become increasingly prevalent across several sectors in India, including aviation, gas and energy, infrastructure, telecommunication, banking, retail, media, and automotive. The...
By Girish Linganna On last Friday Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Microsoft co-founder, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, came together at the former’s residence in Delhi in a free-wheeling and insightful exchange on a range of topics that was as diverse as it was intriguing and thought-provoking—the future of Artificial...
By Tirthankar Mitra Hurling charges of corruption past and present to catch one’s political opponent off guard in a poll battle has been a time honoured practice with Krishnanagar Lok Sabha campaign in West Bengal being no exception. But the charge doing the rounds is one whose origins can...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Extortion from business and corporate by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government for the ruling BJP has already been exposed recently, after the names of the donors and receiver political parties that were kept secret under Electoral Bond Scheme, had to be published under the...
By K Raveendran In an unprecedented move, over 600 lawyers penned a letter to the Chief Justice of India, raising alarms about a ‘vested interest group’ allegedly attempting to influence the judiciary’s decisions, particularly in cases involving political figures and corruption. This letter has garnered significant attention, not least...
By Sushil Kutty The INDI-Alliance has to win 2024 general elections, especially Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s “mitti mein mila doonga” mission is death-dealing. The BJP is going after the gangster-culture holding up the Samajwadi Party superstructure with vengeance with damaging results for the entire opposition ecosystem. Chief...
By Harihar Swarup On the day Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered the tribal district of Nandurbar on March 12, it was greeted with much fanfare. The mood of Congress leaders was upbeat, as Rahul Gandhi addressed huge rallies in Nandurbar and Dondaichain Maharastra. The jolt, however, came the...
By Prabhat Patnaik Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher who was himself a victim of fascism, had linked the ascendancy of fascism to the failed proletarian revolutions that had preceded it. He had of course Germany in mind, where, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, there had been several...