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By Tyler Antonio Lynch This September, Brazil — the world’s largest net exporter of agricultural commodities — announced the biggest grain harvest in its history. Farmers brought in a staggering 322 million tons of corn, soy, and wheat, said the government’s head of agricultural statistics — 50.1 million tons...
ZPM Sweeping Assembly Polls In Mizoram Is A Verdict Against Corruption Under MNF
By Tirthankar Mitra Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM)’s sweeping victory in Mizoram bins the proverbial belief that Indian politics has little space for the young gun. Of course, there are exceptions when mint-fresh political parties are known to end the regime of an established political outfit. Indeed recent election results...
Assembly Elections To The Five States Have A Set Of Winners And Losers
By Harihar Swarup The results of the assembly elections to the five states announced on December 3 and 4 led to many winners and losers for the time being. All of them will be getting another chance to prove their mettle in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Narendra Modi:...
For Congress And Its Allies, The Signals For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Are Ominous
By Nitya Chakraborty Let us call the spade a spade. The results of the five state assemblies announced on December 3 and 4 are sending ominous signals to the anti-BJP opposition just four months before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May 2024. To be frank, the final results...
India Needs A Strong Resolution To Protect Its Currency
By Nantoo Banerjee In his recent Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was troubled by the trend of some “big families” conducting weddings abroad, and urged people to hold such celebrations on Indian soil so that the country’s money does not leave its shores....
After December 3 Results, Focus Has Shifted To The Choice Of Chief Ministers
By Kalyani Shankar After the Five States Assembly poll results, speculation about who the new chief ministers will be is rife. The BJP has won three states and the Congress one. In Mizoram, the XDF has won defeating the ruling MNF. Although the B.J.P. has strengthened itself in the...
After December 3 State Poll Results, Narendra Modi’s Chariot May Run Faster For Lok Sabha Polls
By Sushil Kutty The thumping victories in the ‘Hindi Heartland’ has given a tremendous boost to the BJP going forward. In fact, it took Prime Minister Narendra Modi only hours to claim total dominance and he did not hold back from warning the Opposition to mend its ways and...
Overconfidence After Karnataka Win Led Congress To Ignore Partners As Poll Allies
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Beginning with resurgence in Karnataka by mid-May after being able to throw BJP out of power in the state, overconfidence of the Congress leadership shot up too high to perceive some ground realities beneath their feet. They continued with their idea that “resurgent Congress does...
Rahul Must Focus On Rejuvenating India Bloc For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava Drubbing of the Congress in the just concluded assembly elections would certainly not put the centrality of the grand old party in the opposition’s INDIA camp under a cloud, but undeniably, it would encourage other opposition leaders to look straight into the eyes of the Congress...
BJP Leaders In Madhya Pradesh Attribute The Massive Victory To Modi Magic
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan always been described as “Ghoshna Veer” (as one who only makes promises but never cares to implement them). But this time it proved wrong. Eight months before the assembly elections Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced an allowance of...
Assam Opposition Leaders Resent Centre’s Latest Move To Implement CAA From 2024
By Ashis Biswas Opposition non-BJP leaders in the Northeast have strongly protested against the recent announcement made in neighbouring West Bengal, by Union MOS for Home, Mr Ajay Mishra, confirming Delhi’s intent to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2024. Through the said legislation passed in Parliament in...
War Of Nerves Between BJP And Congress Day Before Election Results
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi bhakts are absolutely correct in saying “Modi hai to mumkin hai” (everything possible with Modi around). Elections to the Madhya Pradesh assembly were held on November 17, thirteen days ahead of the Telangana elections. During the intervening days, political analysts and even some of...
Indian Foreign Diplomacy Is In A Mess Despite All The Talk Of Vishwaguru
By Sushil Kutty There is some confusion on whether India should consider itself “Vishwaguru” or be wise and hold back on the boast? One view is why go the extra mile with the “present government’s exaggerated sense of the country’s global power and indigenous capability”, i.e., Prime Minister Narendra...
State Assembly Polls Showed Congress And BJP Competing On Granting More Freebies
By Harihar Swarup As the polls for five Assemblies elections are over— and Rajasthan and Telangana have become unexpectedly exciting, with the Congress putting up a fight—it’s time to capture some broad trends. What is striking are the areas where consensus is now developing across parties, and one of...
Resumption Of Gaza Fighting Adds To Gold’s Impetus To Rise, Hitting Record Levels
By K Raveendran The renewed escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict is providing additional impetus for gold to climb higher levels. The yellow metal has already been trending higher over the past two months, but the end of truce between Hamas and Israeli forces, unleashing new bomb attacks and destruction...
Growth Data For This Fiscal’s Second Quarter Has Many Encouraging Signs
By K R Sudhaman Government statistics released this week paint a rosy picture of the Indian economy with GDP growth clocking 7.6 per cent in the second quarter of this financial year 2023-24 on the back of strong manufacturing sector. This also strengthens India’s position as the fastest growing...
New ILO Research Found Social Downgrading Of Workforce In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A two-volume new ILO research has revealed that participation of India in Global Value Chains (GVCs) has resulted into social downgrading of the workforce, chiefly due to non-integration of labour standards into trade and investment. It is just opposite our expectation, since GVCs are a...
Despite Hiccups, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s OBOR Project Making Good Progress
By Kunal Bose India’s unreserved opposition to China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative launched across four continents over ten years ago by President Xi Jinping with great fanfare was given vent to from time to time by powers that be, including prime minister Narendra Modi. More recently, India’s...
