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By Dr. Gyan Pathak With second phase of Lok Sabha election 2024 held on April 26, the focus of election campaigns has shifted to the third phase election scheduled to be held on May 7. Significance of this phase of election is that a total of 285 out of...
Low Turn Out Of Voters In Kerala On Friday Favours Left Democratic Front
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a bruising battle for the mind of Kerala’s voters for 20 Lok Sabha constituencies on April 26. The poll campaign saw no quarters being asked for and none given. But the enthusiasm witnessed in the run-up to polling did not reflect in the...
Gold Prices On A Tear Forcing Discounted Domestic Prices To Keep Demand Going
By K Raveendran Gold prices have been scaling record levels and the momentum and magnitude of the price rises have been unprecedented. According to World Gold Council sources, while it took nearly a year for domestic prices to rise from Rs 50,000 per 10g to 60,000/10g, the next band...
What If BJP Wins 370 And INDI-Alliance Lodges 740 Complaints…
By Sushil Kutty “Supreme Court dismisses all petitions seeking 100% verification of VVPAT slip” did not come as a shock. By the time the top court declared the verdict “reserved”, the jolt was a spent force. The big news was the Electronic Voting Machine was here to stay and...
Controversy Over Sam Pitroda’s Inheritance Tax Talk To Hit The Congress Has Little Basis
By Anjan Roy The controversy over re-introduction of the inheritance tax, mooted by none other than yesteryears technology buff, Sam Pitroda, has landed the opposition Congress in a big dilemma in the current course of campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. However the furore created by the Prime Minister...
India Aims To Be In The Top Group Of Global Space Powers By 2047
By Girish Linganna India’s space programme has been in the spotlight ever since the Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the Moon’s southern hemisphere on August 23, 2023. The mission—costing a meager $75 million—covered everything, from the rocket launch to the propulsion system and the lunar lander and rover expenses. This...
BJP’s Election Manifesto For 2024 Lok Sabha Has Special Focus On South Indian States
By Harihar Swarup The central leadership of BJP including the party’s think tanks spent a lot of days in imparting some new dimensions to the election manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha. The Sankalp Patra moved beyond traditional ideological promises to embrace new objectives like infrastructure development and enhanced service...
Rafah Becomes A Break Or Make Proposition For Embattled Netanyahu’s Future
By James M Dorsey An Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gazan enclave of Rafah is a question of when, not if. Not because Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is oblivious to US and international pressure but because it could prove to be make or break for Israel’s embattled leader....
Election Commission Of India Degrades Itself To Modi’s Own Commission
By K Raveendran The Election Commission has forfeited all claims to be the national guardian of constitutional democracy by soft pedalling on the complaints against alleged hate speech by prime minister Narendra Modi in what the whole country was watching as a litmus test for the independence and integrity...
RSS Getting Worried At The Trends Of Voting In Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava The electoral fate of Narendra Modi is in the hands of Lord Ram. But it seems that Lord Ram isn’t too keen to bestow his blessings on him. It is this realisation that he would eventually lose the election that has compelled Modi to rush to...
PM Narendra Modi Has Mischievously Distorted Congress Manifesto
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has dangerously misread the Congress manifesto for Lok Sabha election 2024 and alleged in several of his election campaigns that Congress plan of equality is a “dangerous game.” He has also alarmed the electorate and said such things that...
Tyla’s Journey From A TikTok Star To Grammy-Winner Is Fabulous
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav It takes just a glance at one of her music videos for one stop and replay and then discover all of her playlist. Before the 22-year-old winner of the Best Music Performance Award at Grammy 2024 became a hot South African music sensation, she has...
Janata Dal (S) Key To BJP’s Karnataka Calculations In 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Janata Dal (Secular) is in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Does this mean the JDS is fighting for its “political survival”? Ask party head HD Kumaraswamy, a former Karnataka Chief Minister and the son of ex-Prime Minister HD Devegowda, and he says JDS wants...
Rahul Keeps His Focus Firm On Caste Census, Pro-Poor Justice
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has placed the OBC, SC and ST question as the top priority of the national discourse by maintaining a sharp emphasis on the matter in his election campaign speeches and demanding nationwide caste census to better evaluate the situation of India’s...
Elon Musk’s Advisers Were Not Fully Sure About Narendra Modi’s Third Term In 2024
By Girish Linganna Elon Musk’s choice to delay his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised questions about the real reason behind Musk’s s decision to postpone the visit despite Tesla’s commitment to establishing a manufacturing base in the country as a priority According to industry insiders...
Real Wages Of Rural Labour In India Have Stagnated During Ten Years Of Modi Rule
By Prabhat Patnaik By now it is well-established by several researchers that the real wage rate in rural India, whether of agricultural labour or of rural labour in general, remained virtually stagnant between 2014-15 and 2022-23 (Das and Usami in Review of Agrarian Studies, July-December 2023; Dreze and Khera’s...
Indian Workers Have To Play A Major Role In Ousting Modi Govt In Lok Sabha Polls
By Amarjeet Kaur May Day 2024 falls during the on-going election campaign for 18th Lok Sabha in the country to decide the destiny of this great composite culture and civilization once again. We want that the people choose to vote out the disastrous rule of RSS-BJP and would resolve...
U.S. Worried At The Possibility Of Harming Former PM Imran Khan In Prison
By Girish Linganna Recent discussions in the US Congress on the political situation in Pakistan have raised questions about the safety of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan presently lodged in prison..According to several sources familiar with the matter who spoke to The Intercept, the Senate Majority Leader emphasized...
