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By Girish Linganna For 20 years, Iran supported various militias in the Middle East as it opposed Israel from a distance. However, its recent direct attack on Israel represents a major change in strategy and a significant risk. Iran is aware that its military is not as strong as...
Myanmar Junta Losing Hold Of Border Districts To Pro-Democracy Forces
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Myanmar celebrated on April 17 the first day of the Burmese New Year, the Thingyan festival. It’s a Buddhist festival celebrated for four to five days in the middle of April. Myanmar nationals in other countries celebrated the Thingyan festival, marked by great fun throwing...
INDIA Bloc Has An Edge Over NDA In First Phase Of Lok Sabha Election 2024
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the day of closing of Election campaigns on April 17 for the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 scheduled to be held on April 19, INDIA bloc seems to have an edge over NDA, though BJP is set to win largest number of...
Oil Plays Hide And Seek With War Tensions Ahead Of Some Big Possible Moves
By K Raveendran Oil has spooked the market by registering a fall in prices when it was widely expected that Iran’s retaliatory strike on Israel over the weekend would lead to an instant spike. Not only that the spike did not materialise, but prices fell in a well-telegraphed response...
Supreme Court Favours EVM As Against Ballot Papers, Despite Scope For Manipulation
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court observed humans can manipulate electronic voting machines but is averse to the return of ballot papers. Also, trust in the Election Commission is not 100 percent. The word used was “manipulate”. But ballot papers are a strict “no-no” as “India is not Germany”....
Congress Party’s Ghar Ghar Guarantee Programme Is Having Good Impact
By Harihar Swarup On April 3, when Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge walked into narrow lanes of Usmanpur in North Delhi to launch the party’s ‘Ghar Ghar Guarantee’ programme, it was also a trip down the memory lane. It was in this very area nearly five decades ago that the...
BJP Is Facing Major Hurdles In Retaining Its Three Lok Sabha Seats In First Phase In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Campaigning in Jalpaiguri, Coochbehar and Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituencies in north Bengal were not at all warming up exercises for either Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. Apart from going by the saying that well begun is half done, both the...
Iran Revolutionary Guards Holding Syria As Hostage In A Grand Design
By Manish Rai Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi were killed in an airstrike attributed to Israel on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus. This attack has...
Narendra Modi’s Visit Fails To Boost Kerala BJP’s Sagging Fortunes
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: He came. He saw. But he failed to conquer. That broadly sumps up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest visit to Kerala. The PM’s Mission Kerala has failed to serve the purpose of boosting the sagging fortunes of the BJP in the elections. No doubt, the...
Narendra Modi Is Making A Mockery Of Nuclear Disarmament Issue In His Poll Speeches
By Dr Arun Mitra Speaking in an election rally in Pipariya town in Hoshangabad Parliamentary constituency in Madhya Pradesh on April 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a mockery of nuclear disarmament. In his speech he said ‘those who talk of nuclear disarmament cannot protect the country;’ some...
Congress Engaged In A Last Ditch Battle To Save Chhindwara Lok Sabha Seat
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: BJP is leaving no stone unturned to snatch Chhindwara from Congress – the only seat which it won in 2019.LokSabha polls in Madhya Pradesh. Besides all possible powers, it is also using police to demoralise the Congress candidate Nakul Nath as also his father...
Pakistani Leaders Concerned At Involvement Of Iran In West Asian War
By Girish Linganna The Friday Times in Islamabad reports that recent changes in the political dynamics of the Middle East could lead to more extensive conflicts. This situation points out a crucial lesson for Pakistan’s military and strategic decision-makers: nations must emphasize their own security. Given the uncertainties in...
INDIA Bloc Is Well Set To Make A Clean Sweep In Polls In Tamil Nadu
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Lok Sabha election campaigns nearing to its close in Tamil Nadu, INDIA bloc allies seem to have established their political dominance in all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the state. NDA is trailing far behind in all seats and therefore likely to not...
Andhra Pradesh Slow-Walking To Double-Whammy 2024 Elections
By Sushil Kutty Talk polls and Andhra Pradesh is lacklustre. Telangana hogs all the publicity and sucks dry any left for Andhra Pradesh. Part of the reason is Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y Jagan Mohan Reddy’s glamour quotient. Last Saturday, a flying stone found his forehead and there was...
Samajwadi Party Working Hard To Defeat NDA In Western Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: It is going to a very tough fight between NDA and INDIA bloc candidates in Western Uttar Pradesh also known as jatland in all the eight Lok Sabha seats facing polling in first phase on April 19. It is going to be a testing time...
Netanyahu Has Got Upper Hand After Iran’s Failure To Damage Israel
By Girish Linganna Around midnight on Saturday night, air raid sirens screamed across Israel as Iran launched a major drone and missile attack on the country, sparking fears of a larger conflict in the Middle East. Residents were advised to seek shelter as explosions were heard, even as air...
U.S. And Western Regimes Must Suspend Arms Supply To Israel
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The risk of catastrophic war in the Middle East is real. Western governments, including Britain’s, calling on Israel not to spark such a war have the means to force it to comply and must be made to use them. Israel is to blame for the...
Old ‘Ghoshnas’ Dressed Up In ‘Sankalps’ Is BJP’s 2024 Election Manifesto
By Sushil Kutty If the newspapers had Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman missing from the line-up on stage of BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, displaying the party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ that shouldn’t be construed as where women might end up in the...
