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By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati is brimming with generosity. Like her entering into alliance with Samajwadi Party after nearly a quarter century of nursing animosity, her leaving two seats to the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and for his mother Sonia Gandhi is an exceptional political act. By...
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...
By Aditya Aamir The day after Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav sealed the SP-BSP gathbandhan for Uttar Pradesh, several you-tubers went to different parts of UP to test the impact of the gathbandhan. Impact it did, and how? ‘It rocked’, is one way to put it, sent shock waves...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is most surprising that India’s bid to enforce data localisation should be strongly contested by the European Union, which boasts one of the world’s toughest personal privacy regimes. The EU, US, Russia and China all have their ways to strongly and legally protect their...
The formation of grand alliance against Bharatiya Janata Party is just a short-term, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday during an interaction with booth-level workers from five Parliamentary constituencies in Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Modi said the opposition is trying to build their own empire while his...
By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik With the 116th Congress in session now in Washington, there seem to be four constants voters can expect in the next two years on Capitol Hill: The Democratic-run House will pass progressive legislation which will sink from sight in the GOP-run Senate...
By Aditya Aamir On the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index, a Niti Ayog report ranks Kerala top of the heap, along with Sikkim, on gender-equality – scoring 69 out of 100. Does this mean Kerala can beat Sikkim to second place if women of all age...
By Harihar Swarup Now that Parliament has passed the Constitution amendment bill providing for a new 10 per cent quota for the “economically backward” among those outside other quotas, what is likely to be its fall out? Evidently, a Pandora’s Box of new quota demands is set to...
Pollution is one of the major challenges in India and considering this should get a solution the Narendra Modi government launched Friday a five-year action plan to tackle the situation in 102 Indian cities, which were earlier identified by the Central Pollution Control Board. Ministry of Environmental, Forest and...