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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress has come a long way from promising ‘NYAY’ (Nyuntam Aay Yojna) on the eve of Lok Sabha elections 2019 to ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, ahead of the 2024 general elections, from Manipur to Gujarat, beginning January 14, with focus on injustices inflicted upon common people...
By Arun Srivastava Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s moves certainly did not amount to a major organisational reshuffle nor was it a step forward to revive the party. It was an inconsequential exercise based on which the leadership cannot aspire to take the BJP head-on in the 2024 Lok Sabha...
By Sushil Kutty Ram Mandir and Hindu revival are the talk of the town in the Hindi heartland. The BJP talks of a 400-plus Lok Sabha seats harvest in the 2024 general elections riding on the back of Ram Mandir, the symbol of Hindu revival. Can anyone stop the...
By Girish Linganna In 2016, India suddenly stopped using two types of banknotes, which made up 86% of all the money in use. This was done to fight corruption and hidden wealth. Known as Demonetisation, this action led to chaos at banks and ATMs. Critics argued it harmed those...
By Tirthankar Mitra Messages from Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Kolkata tour: Stress on the role of social media instead of relying heavily on public meetings and rallies. Also door-to-door campaigning by saffron camp leaders. And reposing faith in the ‘Old Guard’ as exemplified by the induction of former...
By Mohammad Wasim Four years after Article 370 was de-operationalised, the Supreme Court has held the Presidential Orders and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 constitutionally...
By Ryan Moore No one is born a Marxist — not even Karl Marx. Before he formulated his famous ideas about the centrality of class struggle to social change, young Marx surrounded himself with liberals who sought to abolish the religious authoritarianism of the old regime and bring about...
By Harihar Swarup “Make Mistakes of ambition, and not mistakes of sloth” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli. Ajit Pawar follows the maxim to the hilt. ‘Pawar has long been openly pursuing his dream of becoming Maharashtra Chief Minister. Perhaps the closest he came to achieving it was in 2019 when he...
By Kalyani Shankar The recent security breach in Parliament has severe political, electoral, legislative, and security implications. The resultant unprecedented suspension of 146 MPs has now united the Opposition coalition, the INDI-Alliance. Lok Sabha witnessed two intruders jumping from the visitor’s gallery and uncorking smoke canisters inside the Lok...
By Nantoo Banerjee China’s Xi Jinping, running the third five-year term as the all-powerful President of the People’s Republic, is 70. Vladimir Putin, aspiring to become Russia’s President for a fifth six-year term next year, is 71. The National People’s Congress chose Xi’s appointment without any opposition. The vote...
By Debabrata Biswas Two and a half months have passed since Oct 7 and I have written before that the Hamas attack was to bring the Palestinian issue back to the attention of the world. That objective has been achieved, at the cost of a heavy toll of Palestinian...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s psycho-political warfare for Electoral Battle 2024 began on December 23, the concluding day of the BJP’s two-day meet. He asked party leaders to increase vote share by 10 percent compared to the 2019 elections. Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah...
By Kunal Bose India is forever fighting to protect a fair amount of its production of fruits and vegetables from perishing. Containing wastage, from production centres to final consumers, has concentrated on handling logistics better. Now, in an attempt to further cut the loss, the Centre has inducted a...
By Arun Srivastava Many unsavoury incidents are taking place. The list is quite long. What stands out is that every incident owes its birth to the RSS move to communalise and polarise the democratic structure and its functioning and weaponise the administrative institutions and apparatuses. Four days back the...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress Party and RLD have launched their separate yatras in Uttar Pradesh to be in a position to strike a hard bargain on seat-sharing with the Samajwadi Party. This, because the Samajwadi Party insists it has the sole privilege to apportion seats to smaller parties...
By Girish Linganna The United States-led multinational naval force to safeguard and secure sea traffic in the Red Sea against attacks from Houthi rebels seems to be greatly weakened even before it started operating fully. Just a few days after the launch of “Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG),” France, Italy,...
By Tirthankar Mitra No matter how loud the cash counters at the box office jingle, Shahrukh Khan starrer ‘Dunki’ is not a film to write home about. It is themed on the issue of illegal migration and “dunki maarna”, the Hindi colloquialism for illegal migration. Also, the movie comes...
By Ashis Biswas Even as the civil war rages on in Myanmar, there is fresh concern among GOI circles regarding a somewhat disturbing report in the Sri Lankan media, stating that some Indians were being “held” as prisoners in what have been described as “terror camps” in the strife-torn...