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By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: General satisfaction prevails among ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) circles that the Lok Sabha 2024 elections ended peacefully in the eight Northeastern states, but for a few minor incidents reported in Manipur. In three phases, altogether 25 seats were contested. Relief was more palpable, according...
Election Commission Is Abdicating Its Constitutional Responsibility To Hold Impartial Polls
By P. Sudhir Elections to half the seats in the Lok Sabha have been completed with the third phase of polling being over on May 7. This has provided enough experience and time to assess how the Election Commission (EC) has gone about superintending the conduct of a free...
After One Year Of Ethnic Tensions, Manipur Refuses To Be Normal
By Krishna Jha How long it takes to listen to the victim’s tearful cries? That too when she is a mother of a four-year old, dares to plead to the demons for her life as her death could be the death of her child too. Their assent to it...
Sam Pitroda Was Not Wrong, Only His Way Of Presentation Was Defective
By Anjan Roy If the noblest could be compared with the plebeian, the infinite with the infinitesimal, the dignified with crass, then the underlying sentiments expressed by Sam Pitroda were in the same veins as Rabindranath Tagore’s great poem “Bharat Tirtha”. All this hyper reaction by the BJP leaders...
Haryana Politics Undergoes Big Change Impacting Lok Sabha And Assembly Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Politics in Haryana underwent a considerable change before the withdrawal of nomination on May 9 for the Lok Sabha Election scheduled in the penultimate phase VI on May 25. Election campaign would start from tomorrow in a backdrop of change of BJP’s chief minister on...
Modi’s Insinuation Against Rahul: PM Realises He’s Losing The Poll Plot
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s two latest remarks — first hitting out at Rahul Gandhi over Sam Pitroda’s ‘skin colour’ comments, and second charging Ambani and Adani with buying Rahul’s purported silence — have caused furore in the political circles. Not only have they shaken the trust level of...
Between The Lines Of Pitroda’s Declassification Of Indians
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi couldn’t have been more thrilled than when Indian Overseas Congress head Sam Pitroda spoke. On May 8, Modi feigned anger and outrage and gave Indians reason to feel divided after Sam Pitroda did what he thought was an honest classification of Indians...
Bengal Congress Strongman Adhir Chowdhury Struggling Hard To Defend His Seat In Berhampore
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Political difference is meshed with an almost personalised rivalry at Berhampore and Krishnanagar constituencies in the run up to May 13, the day of the electoral battle of the fourth phase of the 18th Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal. Careers of a stalwart and...
Major Politico-Legal Setback For Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala suffered a severe legal as well as political setback when the vigilance court in Thiruvananthapuram rejected the petition filed by party MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan seeking a probe against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter Veena on the allegation that they...
Is Russia Mulling To Experiment With Using Nuclear Weapons In Space
By Girish Linganna Russia recently rejected a UN resolution proposed by the US and Japan, which aimed to prevent the development and use of nuclear weapons in space. This action by Russia indicates that they are moving closer to making the idea of using nuclear weapons in space a...
Rift Between RSS And BJP Getting Bigger With Every Phase Of Polling
By Arun Srivastava With the passing of every phase, the anguish gripping the RSS and traditional BJP cadres and supporters is getting more pronounced and discernible, notwithstanding the attempts of the top RSS leaders to make them relent and ensure the victory of the BJP candidates. Much against the...
Low Voter Turnout A Systemic Issue Globally, Needs Targetted Corrective Action
By K Raveendran The role of State Bank of India in suppressing information about the Supreme Court-struck down electoral bonds has been well-exposed. Now more evidence of SBI’s ‘political mandate’ is emerging. For no rhyme or reason, an inhouse economist has debunked what he describes as the myth of...
Congress Depending On Its Social Guarantees For Success In Telangana Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Congress will not be able to do a repeat of the November 2023 assembly election victory. KCR’s Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) hasn’t recouped its loss and isn’t in shape despite party head K Chandrashekar Rao’s frequent pep talk to party leaders and party workers. Politics...
Congress Wants Priyanka Gandhi To Campaign Nation Wide For The Party
By Harihar Swarup The suspense is over—it is Rahul Gandhi, not Priyanka Gandhi, who is contesting from Rae Bareli, the seat their mother, Sonia Gandhi represented five times since 2004 until she entered Rajya Sabha a month ago. And party worker Kishori Lal Sharma will face BJP’s Smriti Irani...
Netanyahu Buys Time By Rejecting Gaza Ceasefire Amidst Short-Lived Celebrations
By James M Dorsey This week’s Gazan short-lived celebration of a ceasefire that was not to be, highlights what is at stake in the seven-month-old war and Israel’s refusal to end the carnage. Thousands poured into Gazan streets within minutes of Hamas advising it had accepted a Qatar and...
India’s Diplomatic Relation With U.S. Continues To Be Under Strain On Pannun Issue
By Girish Linganna Relations have soured since Joe Biden labelled India as ‘xenophobic’. Additionally, tensions have been fuelled by criticisms from Washington and a foiled assassination attempt. However, experts believe that Washington will make sure that nothing hinders its strategy to work with New Delhi in order to counter...
Leftist Columbian President Gustavo Petro Breaks Diplomatic Relations With Israel
By Luca Decola On International Workers’ Day, Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing president, announced that the country would sever diplomatic ties with Israel over its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. “Tomorrow we will break diplomatic relations with the state of Israel for having a government, for having a president...
The Tale Of Students In Two Berlins After A Gap Of Ninety One Years
By Victor Grossman BERLIN – It was May 10 in Germany’s terrible year, 1933. Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames...
