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By Sushil Kutty ‘No’, President Joe Biden is in no mood to step away from the race. Not for the sake of Vice President Kamala Harris nor for making the “Vice President Donald J Trump” gaffe. President Joe Biden mixed up names and titles at the Nato presser in...
Collapse Of Bridges, Flyovers In Bihar Has Become A Routine Affair
By Arun Srivastava Some twenty years back a division bench of Patna High Court had bemoaned the absence of work culture in Bihar. The officials who have the authority to enforce the work ethics are reluctant to improve the governance and ensure that the subordinates perform. Division bench of...
No Relief For Common Struggling Masses Can Be Expected In 2024-25 Budget
By Anil Rajimwale Narendra Modi government will present the first budget of its third term on July 23 in the budget session from July 22 to August 12. The BJP-led government is widely expected to continue its policy direction claiming ‘reforms’. The dialectics of budgets and economic policies over...
By-Polls In Ten Assembly Constituencies In Uttar Pradesh Are Crucial For BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP leadership are facing biggest challenge to retain seats won by the party in the 2022 assembly polls during the coming by-elections to 10 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. Ten assembly seats going for by-elections are Karhal, Milkipur, Sishamau, Kaktheri,...
Congress To Demand Chairing Of Standing Committee On Finance, Home
By Rahil Nora Chopra In the forthcoming session of parliament which commences from July 22 and scheduled to end on August 12, Congress will put forth its demand with Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government for the chairmanship of Standing Committee on Finance and Home, as previously under the...
Drastic Changes Are Being Contemplated In Bengal BJP Organisation
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The West Bengal BJP has tied itself up in knots after its tally in 2024 Lok Sabha elections came down to 12 from the figure of 18 won in 2019 elections. Intra-party recriminations have taken place and are going to be followed by change at...
Europe Is Poised To Enter A New Period Of Confrontation Between NATO And Russia
By Nitya Chakraborty Europe has entered a dangerous period with all the potential of the 28 month old Ukraine war crossing the border into other parts of the continent. The summit of the 32 nation North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO) held in Washington on July 9 to 11 has decided...
French Voters Have Given A Firm Mandate For Anti-Far Right Government
By P. Sudhir People of France have voted against the far-right in the parliamentary elections. Contrary to many opinion polls, the National Rally of Le Pen could win only 143 seats and stood third. The newly formed Left coalition, New Popular Front achieved a victory by emerging as the...
Adequate Funding Concerns For Public Health Plague Union Budget 2024-25
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Given the huge shortage of healthcare professionals and hospital beds, lack of pre and post hospitalization medical facilities at affordable costs, inadequate funding, and non-release of promised budgeted funds even under the much-publicized government medical and health insurance schemes have emerged as serious concerns for...
Supreme Court Order On Alimony For Divorced Muslim Women Is Welcome
By Sushil Kutty Telangana resident Mohd. Abdul Samad can’t do much. He must be feeling exactly like how Shah Bano Begum felt in 1986. Then, too, the Supreme Court of India had skin in the game and had come to the rescue of divorced Muslim women, like it had...
India Pursues Its Hardcore Objectives In Modi-Putin Summit In Moscow
By Anjan Roy For the last two years, India has been riding on two horses diplomatically: while befriending the West, particularly the USA, the Indian moves have also placated Russia in the face of its unilateral aggression against Ukraine in February 2022.. The West had so far turned its...
The Newly Introduced Three Criminal Laws Are Full Of Ambiguities
By Krishna Jha Crime itself is a morbid act and the three new criminal laws, effective from July 1, 2024, are threatening to throw the country’s criminal justice system into even greater confusion. Its criticism has been that strengthening police power would be instrumental in turning the country into...
In One Week, Labour PM Starmer Is Positive On Domestic Front But Following Same Policy On NATO
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Labour has spent its first week in power signalling a changed approach from the Tories — a national wealth fund for infrastructure projects, a reset to devolution with a new council of the regions. In Washington Keir Starmer’s purpose is different — to show his...
Modi-Putin meet in Moscow re-affirms a time-tested friendship
By Annie Domini The 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit held in Moscow on July 8-9 2024 will go a long way in re-embellishing one of the most enduring friendships in the geopolitical theatre. Moscow and New Delhi have seen many ups and downs together, no matter who has been in...
Modi’s Russia visit deepens economic partnership amidst Moscow’s diplomatic isolation
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia holds significant implications for the economic partnership between the two countries, spanning various sectors from energy to technology and beyond. As such, it is a pivotal moment for both countries, especially against the backdrop of evolving global dynamics and...
Narendra Modi’s tussle with RSS leadership over choice of next BJP president mounts
By Arun Srivastava Classical case of parental humiliation.. RSS, the organisation which fathered BJP, is finding it tough to have its suggestion heard and prevail on its progeny to appoint the new president of the party of its choice. What a let-down. It is really disgraceful for the RSS...
Governance and political setbacks mark the first month of Modi 3.0
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Several governance and political setbacks have marked much prominently than any of the good performances of PM Narendra Modi led government during the first month of its third term (Modi 3.0). All these began with taking his oath on June 9, 2024, as a Prime...
Rahul Gandhi’s political turnaround is being closely monitored by all parties
By Sushil Kutty Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son K Taraka Rao does not like Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, especially Rahul’s “double standards” on “defections”. KTR and KCR’s party Bharat Rashtra Samithi is reeling under a slew of defections and KTR is unhappy...
