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By Dr. Soma Marla In early March, the price of Kinnow fruit at Gaddiannaram fruit market, Hyderabad is Rs 40 a Kilogram. While oranges and apples are increasingly dumped in to Indian markets from California or New Zealand, small farmers in Punjab are distressed for not receiving even half...
Hardliners Win In National Elections In Iran Sidelining Moderates
By Tirthankar Mitra Iranian elections are over and given the counting trends, moderates will be taking a back seat while the hardliners are set to sweep the polls..Reformist movement has been in steady decline for years and was further damaged by the previous president, Hassan Rouhani. The reformists backed...
BJP-BJD Alliance In Odisha Can Shield BJP From Possible Loss In Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Talks for BJP-BJD alliance in Odisha is in advanced state. “There were discussions on the alliance among other issues,” said BJP MP Jual Oram, adding “the party’s central leadership will make the final call.” Obviously, there is greater possibility of pre-poll alliance between the two...
Saffrons Will Project Sandeshkhali Nationally To Discredit INDIA Bloc
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi was absolutely right in saying that the Sandeshkhali “storm” would sweep across Bengal and ensure an end to the Trinamool Congress’s “rule of terror”. His confidence emanates from the apparition of the RSS polarising the Bengali society attaining a tangible shape. Ever since Modi...
SBI Plea For Extension Of Deadline On Electoral Bond Details Is Unsustainable
By P. Sudhir The Supreme Court of India had struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional and manifestly arbitrary. That the Modi government would find this verdict unpalatable is not surprising, given the fact that the electoral bonds scheme was devised by it to legitimise political corruption. The...
Trump’s November Vulnerabilities Come To The Fore After His Tuesday Sweep
By Sushil Kutty Third day after Super Tuesday and Donald Trump is on everybody’s mind. His Republican Party rival Nikki Haley, after the drubbing she got, is full of unsolicited advice for the man who beat her in every state but two in the ongoing Republican Party primaries. And...
Observing The Spirit Of International Women’s Day On March 8 In India
By Krishna Jha “You bear the seed, flower and fruit…You who never cease to Repair life…” It was Luce Irigaray, an Italian poetess, and author, yearning to be one, in completion, separate from the other. Her tenderness is there, in suffering, in happiness, she breaks the shackles and emerges...
Big World Leaders Are Failing To Protect Peace And Security In The Globe
By Dr Arun Mitra There was lot of complacency after the end of cold war as several people felt that now we shall enter an era of lasting peace and a world free of nuclear weapons. But this did not happen. The United States and its allies, many of...
Latest Russian Space Weapons Are A Growing Concern For Western Nations
By Girish Linganna Recent news about Russia testing new space technology has made countries all over the world worried. The future of warfare is expected to involve autonomous weapons, robots, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Another crucial aspect that has come up is the competition for control over space. Satellites...
Bolivia’s Ruling Leftwing Movement Vertically Split Before Prez Elections In 2025
By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia which elected the Left wing President Luis Arce in 2020 giving a big boost to the Left and progressive forces in Latin America, is facing a split in its political leadership with the present president fighting the former president and Arce’s mentor Evo Morales. Since...
Election Promises: Needed A Mechanism To Prevent Bluff Games By Political Parties
By K Raveendran The Indian election season is a vibrant spectacle. Rallies thrum with energy, multi-coloured flags flutter, and manifestos lay out grand visions for the future. Yet, beneath the celebratory veneer lies a troubling question: are these promises merely a game of rhetoric, with little chance of translation...
INDIA Bloc May Announce Seat-Sharing In Jharkhand Next Week
By Arun Srivastava With the mission to protect and sustain the Jharkhandi pride and its identity, the constituents of INDIA bloc have finalised the seat sharing and the draft proposal has been forwarded to the national coordination committee for its approval. The INDIA bloc is simply waiting for the...
Changing Political Landscape Since February 22 Going Against BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The India TV-CNX survey, conducted between February 5 and 23, a period when BJP and PM Narendra Modi believed unprecedented gain after inauguration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 and a prospect of INDIA alliance falling apart, revealed that their hope of winning...
Haley Blown Away As Trump, Biden Take Super Tuesday By Storm
By Sushil Kutty “Indian-American” Nikki Haley’s race against “American-American” Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination was belly up in all Super Tuesday states. The exception being Vermont, where even conservatives largely vote liberal. But after the votes were cast and the votes were counted, Trump hadn’t clinched the...
How Crowdfunding Concept Is Sweeping Hollywood Film Industry?
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a visionary move that reshapes the traditional Hollywood financing landscape, Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison materialized their brainchild, Legion M, not merely as a production studio but as a thriving community. Breaking away from the conventional model, Legion M is part of a Hollywood...
Narendra Modi’s Gujarat Model Fails To Reduce Poverty In His Own State
By Subrata Majumder According to a NITI Aayog survey report, Gujarat is failing in reduction of poverty despite emerging as the fastest growing state in industrialization. The ranking of Gujarat in poverty alleviation is even lower than West Bengal – one of the poorest states in the country. Gujarat...
Closed Borders Along The Myanmar-India Line Having Humanitarian Issues
By Girish Linganna Gawa, originating from a Mizo village in Myanmar close to the Indian border, escaped in December after her village was destroyed by fire. Now, as a mother of two, she is among the numerous individuals seeking shelter along the border, attempting to escape the intensifying civil...
Durand Line: A Tool Of Deceit Employed Against Afghan People By The British Empire
By Manish Rai Last month the Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while attending a public program said that there is an absence of an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further said that Afghanistan will never recognize the Durand Line as its official border with...
