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REVERSES ADD TO PRESSURE POINTS By Arun Srivastava In the backdrop of the election results in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the RSS and its frontal organisations are expected to become more aggressive and this could mean queering the pitch further for the construction of Ram mandir. With...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Despite the voters failing to give clear majority, Congress has put together the numbers to form the government in Madhya Pradesh with the support of BSP and independents. And this is s a huge setback to the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president...
By Kalyani Shankar What does the crystal ball say about the year 2019? The Lok Sabha polls and the electoral fortunes of many political parties including the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress will dominate the year. The fortunes of some regional satraps like Naveen Patnaik, N....
By Amulya Ganguli The Congress’s revival after having hit the lowest point in its history in 2014 is the big takeaway from the assembly election results. By the same token, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) hope of ushering in a Congress-mukt (free) India has been dashed, along with...
By Anjan Roy The underlying story around the sudden resignation of the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not about what has happened, but what hasn’t. Dr Urjit Patel did not resign when the tussle had peaked. He had in fact dug in his heels...
By Aditya Aamir If this was the ‘semi-final’, what will the ‘final’ throw up? BJP and Amit Shah and Narendra Modi have a thing on their shoulders, and it’s a monster – the nightmare of a 2019 defeat! A count of loss of votes in the Lok Sabha...
Congress is forming government in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan while TRS in Telangana and MNF in Mizoram. In Madhya Pradesh BJP is in close fight with the Rahul Gandhi-led party. The outcome of these elections in Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram and Madhya Pradesh would work like a litmus test of...
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost his mojo after the devastating reverses faced by the BJP in the three of its ruling states- Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. The Modi magic is gone and ominous signals have been given to the BJP by the people...
By Arun Srivastava The police of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh has succeeded to eliminate a good number of Maoist cadres, but they could not quite break the backbone of Maoists in Chhattisgarh, despite severe repression using the state machinery and putting a number of innocent people in...
By Ben Chacko It’s my deal or no deal is the unwelcome message that Theresa May’s little helpers have been carrying to the far corners of Torydom over this weekend. Gin and tonic-fuelled discussions in the bars of Conservative clubs up and down the shires is perhaps not...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the major parties, Congress and BJP, are suspecting that attempts may be made to disrupt the counting tomorrow. Surprisingly, no less a person than Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan has asked party men to remain alert. Expressing confidence that BJP will be able...
RBI Governor Urjit Patel stepped down Monday citing personal reasons, but was earlier in a conflict with Union finance ministry related to monetary policy. Patel said, “On account of personal reasons, I have decided to step down from my current position effective immediately. It has been my privilege and...
By Arun Srivastava The BJP has a running grudge that the exit polls have been consistently under-projecting its tally in all elections since 2014. It is worth recalling the exit polls had forecast a BJP government in the 2015 assembly elections, but when the actual counting began the...
By Nantoo Banerjee If the world’s top ranking economies by per capita GDP and expenditure, education level, financial inclusion and digital penetration are not keen to go cashless in the face of resistance from their citizens, India’s bid to build a cashless society may be described as highly...
By Aditya Aamir ‘Can Mandir and Vikas go together?’ is the question gaining traction after the VHP rally the other day in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, which was less a ‘Dharam Sansad’ and more a ‘Dharam (in) Sankat’ congregation. If the BJP loses Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh besides Rajasthan,...
Amid no clear prediction by exit polls about who will form government in Madhya Pradesh a confident comment by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan declares his party party will emerge as the next ruler in the state. Chouhan was on a three-day vacation in Bandhavgarh and while leaving for...
Aditya Aamir Evening of December 7, post-5 pm, BJP stood for ‘Bhag Ja Party’, with most of the exit polls predicting a hammering at the hustings. There were glum BJP faces and put-up brave BJP faces on television. At 11 pm, when the anchors signed off for the night,...
By P. Sreekumaran A long-standing dream of the people of North Malabar will become a reality with the inauguration on December 9, 2018 of the Kannur International Airport (KIA). Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu will formally inaugurate the airport, built under...