Kejriwal says BJP will end reservation if it comes to power
AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the BJP...
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Modi stand detrimental to communal harmony: Sharad Pawar
NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday claimed that the stand taken by...
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‘Pro-Pak’ J&K outfit says to shun separatist cause if ban lifted
The Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, which has been outlawed under the Unlawful Activities...
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Purkayastha Arrest: There Is More Than Technicalities At Stake
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court decision to declare the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of news website NewsClick as illegal has reignited the debate on the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual liberty. While Purkayastha’s release is a positive development, the court’s reasoning raises questions about...
Modi Back To Polarising Hindus Ahead Of Last Three Phases Of Polling
By Arun Srivastava Within twenty hours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped public assertion, saying “if I do Hindu-Muslim, would not be fit for public life”, he made a classic somersault and declared: “Congress wanted to allocate 15 per cent budget to Muslims”. On Tuesday, while filing his nomination...
The Post-Bail Behaviour Of Arvind Kejriwal Is Becoming Curiouser And Curiouser
By Sushil Kutty If the Bharatiya Janata Party wins June 4, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will become Prime Minister and Yogi Adityanath will be removed from his post of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in three months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join LK Advani in the ‘Marg-darshak...
BJP Led NDA’s Majority In 18th Lok Sabha Does Not Seem To Be A Done Thing
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing outside support to INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress Supremo Mamata Banerjee has just expressed the opposition’s belief at the pick of election campaign for the fifth phase that India is heading for a hung parliament. Election campaign for the fifth phase will end on...
Hiking Deposit Rates By SBI In The Midst Of Lok Sabha Polls Smacks Of Politics
By Anjan Roy In the context of the US presidential election, economists and political scientists are all wondering why the ground performance of the American economy is not boosting incumbent Joe Biden’s popularity. US unemployment rate is at rock bottom levels, the economy is growing steadily, there is no...
Preventing Muslims From Voting In Sambhal By Uttar Pradesh Police Was Inspired By PM
By P. Sudhir Narendra Modi cannot speak nowadays anything which even approximates the truth. His latest false utterance is in an interview after having filed his nomination in Varanasi. Modi said that when he talked of “those who have more children”, he had not meant Muslims. He further went...
Conviction Of The Killers Of Narendra Dhabolkar Was Long Overdue
By Krishna Jha In the early hours of August 20, 2013, Narendra Dabholkar was on his morning walk, part of his daily routine, when two bikers drove up to him and shot him dead. Dabholkar was a rationalist, believed in scientific thinking, and always tried to struggle against any...
India Has Planned To Triple Nuclear Capacity By 2030 With Russia’s Rosatom
By Girish Linganna India is set to triple its civilian nuclear power capacity by 2030 in collaboration with Russia. Rosatom is poised to significantly contribute to India’s objective of tripling its nuclear power production. Rosatom is a Russian state corporation specializing in nuclear energy and nuclear power plant construction...
What Is The Truth Behind Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Hindu-Muslim’ Clarification?
By Sushil Kutty Fact-checker Muhammed Zubair checked and declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not speak the truth. Modi did indeed do ‘Hindu-Muslim’ as he went about drumming support from Hindus. But Zubair stopped short of asking Modi to “quit public life” as Modi said he would if he...
Modi Gives Inheritance Tax A Spin To Create Communal Polarisation In Larger Agenda
By K Raveendran Narendra Modi has an uncanny knack for converting insults hurled at him into campaign rallying points, with verbal slips by Congress leaders ending up overturning Modi and his party’s s electoral fortunes. It was during the 2014 general elections, that Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar referred...
