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By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India(CPI), the second most important Left Party in the country after the CPI(M) has given a call for widest possible mobilization of all secular, political and mass organizations to counter the neo liberal and the fascistic offensive of the Modi government...
By Barun Das Gupta Will the CPI-M be able to retain its twenty-five years of uninterrupted rule in Tripura or will the BJP upset all calculations and prove every electoral arithmetic wrong by dislodging Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and his party? The answer will be diametrically opposite depending...
By Sushil Kutty There are things we want to talk about but cannot talk about. That does not apply to Mani Shankar Aiyar and Mehbooba Mufti, the two Valentines of Pakistan. Both have been talking way out of the boundaries of India. In Aiyar’s case, literally. Aiyar and...
By G. Srinivasan The apex bank, while unveiling the sixth bi-monthly annual monetary policy statement for the current fiscal on February 7 in Mumbai, justified its neutral policy stance for the present, contending that crude oil prices have firmed up sharply since August 2017, driven by both demand...
By Aditya Amir Asauddin Owaisi is delusional speaking with the Cosmos. The only Member of Parliament who likes to be called Barrister-at-Law is not loathe to step over laws he deems don’t help take forward his religious agenda, which again is more political. Owaisi’s modus vivendi –...
By Amulya Ganguli It will be unwise to dismiss BJP M.P VinayKatiyar’s warning about converting the Taj Mahal to “our temple”, the Tejo mandir, as the hate rant of a well-known rabble-rouser. It has to be acknowledged that the Sangh parivar generally gives advance notice of its...
By Aditya Aamir Another Valentine’s Day and love will take a beating – a beating of hearts, that is. News will, however, veer to beatings at the hands of the moral police, as it has already. Valentine’s Day has to be seen in the background of globalisation,...
By P. Sreekumaran The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government came to power with a firm commitment to eradicate corruption from public life. As part of the anti-corruption campaign, it had also promised to strengthen the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau(VACB). Two years into its rule, that promise...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Lok Sabha by-elections on March 11 for two seats Gorakhpur and Phulpur will prove to be a testing time for both the Yogi Adityanath government and the Opposition. The outcome will set the tone for Lok Sabha elections next year. The Gorakhpur seat...
By Arun Srivastava It may sound bizarre but the fact remains that the RSS has put its entire might to weaken and erode the support base of chief minister Nitish Kumar. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat zeroing in on the farmers is the candid example of this strategy. RSS...
By Kalyani Shankar What is the main challenge before the Congress party which dreams of containing the resurgent BJP? It is reinventing the United Progressive Alliance before the next Lok Sabha elections. The Opposition is not able to take on the government on serious matters beyond the Demonetization...
By Aditya Aamir What was Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat thinking on Sunday when he said the RSS could assemble its cadres to fight a war much faster than the Indian army could? Either he was not in his senses or he really believes his words,...
The Supreme Court continued last week hearings in the sensitive case of Judge Loya’s mysterious death in 2014. Indira Jaising, appearing for Admiral Ramdas, argued that there were sufficient reasons to suspect the alleged death of Judge Loya, including several inconsistencies in documents. There was no entry of Judge...
By Anand Vardhan Dubai has emerged as a major centre in the global fashion circuit. A Local designer, who is a member of the Sharjah ruling family, has played a key role in the high-profile Dubai Fashion Week. She is Shaikha Hind Al Qassimi, a multifaceted personality with an...
By Sushil Kutty Kamal Haasan is a thorough ‘actor’ in real and reel life as opposed to Rajinikanth, who comes out in real life a ‘natural’ and in his cinema roles, an actor. Last Saturday Kamal was in Harvard, where he told the audience there he hoped Rajini’s...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: After hectic efforts Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has succeeded in making the two by-elections a contest between the Scindias. While the Congress campaign is led by Jyotiraditya Scindia, the BJP is projecting Yashodhara Raje Scindia as the commander of its campaign. Yashodhara is...
By Arun Srivastava It is an open secret that BJP does not depend on the strength of its allies for survival at the Centre, but it will have to depend on their support during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The politics of partnership is crucial for swaying the...
By Sankar Ray “Naqeeb Masud Shaheed: Zwanan Mo Qatal Kege Da Sanga Azadi Da, Pashto Der Khkule Nazam.- a pick from a song in Pashto by Pashtuns has been reverberating in the wide space confronting of the National Press Club, Islamabad, where thousands of Pashtuns began a sit-in...