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Though it is not yet final and ready for public announcement, but an insider reveals the Narendra Modi-led government is planning to transfer cash to farmers instead of subsidies. The fund will club all farm subsidies including fertilizer costs. Following losing three key state elections lately the Bharatiya Janata...
By John Wojcik Demands that President Donald Trump be impeached grew after revelations Thursday that he ordered his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress. The deceptions Trump allegedly ordered were designed to hide talks Trump and his family held with people in Moscow regarding the building of...
By Arun Srivastava It is too premature to predict that Theresa May’s career is over. Nothing is impossible in the game of politics. The latest development has not come as surprise. Things followed the dotted line. May’s friends had warned of the disastrous effect on her moves, but...
By Amulya Ganguli Even if the rally of the national opposition leaders in Kolkata last Saturday was a fairly impressive affair, it was nowhere near what the people of the city had seen earlier, notably during the Left Front’s heyday. Perhaps the opportunity provided by television to...
By Nantoo Banerjee The shrinking job market is becoming an increasing concern for the country’s millions of students studying at home and abroad with education loans. Also concerned are those unemployed youth who had finished education with the support of bank loans that they are unable to return....
By Nitya Chakraborty The massive rally organized in Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground on Saturday by the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to demonstrate the unity of the opposition parties for unseating Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government in the coming Lok Sabha poll,...
By Sushil Kutty The ‘mahagathbandhan’ is in place. There is also the ‘gathbandhan’. And don’t forget the ‘federal front’. The first and third overlap, they say. The question then is ‘What now?’ Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati, if one is ambition, the other is Mayavi. The day Brigade Ground...
Confessions of a nervous sterling bull in Dubai! Matein Khalid The epic political dramas of last week (Aunty Theresa’s Brexit plan was rejected by the House of Commons but she managed to survive a no-confidence vote by a narrow margin) strengthened the British pound, exactly as I had expected....
The grand alliance of opposition parties is against the people of India too apart from being anti-Modi, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Satruday in a Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Silvasa, union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The opposition parties staged a show of strength in Kolkata...
By Aditya Aamir The Kerala government has ‘51’ reasons to hang its head in shame. And Pinarayi Vijayan is the ‘head’. The only place Vijayan can hide is Pinarayi, the village with the rock that delivered CPM. Friday, Pinarayi Vijayan was on a slippery slope. He is atheist...