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China has opposed the holding of a G20 meeting in Kashmir, while Turkey and Saudi Arabia have not registered for
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced to withdraw Rs 2000 note from circulation. The notes will continue to
After long deliberations, Karnataka Congress Chief, DK Shivakumar, has reluctantly accepted to take up the Deputy Chief Minister's role following former
The suspense over the next Karnataka Chief Minister continues days after the Congress received a clear mandate in the assembly
Soon after a delegation of the Shiv Sena (UBT) handed over a 79-page letter to the Maharashtra Deputy Speaker seeking
The National Assembly of Pakistan on Monday passed a resolution for a committee's formation to file a reference against Chief

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Centre and The Ruling Party Have Lost All Propriety By Defending The Accused BJP MP

By Sushil Kutty A farmer – ‘Bharat ka kisan’ – prevented the hard won gold, silver and bronze medals of the protesting wrestlers from immersion in the polluted waters of the Holy Ganga at Haridwar. This, after the wrestlers refused to take lying down any further the Centre’s intransigence....

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Brazil President Lula Pushes For Integration At South American Summit

By Satyaki Chakraborty The move for the integration of the economies of South American nations has got a big boost after the conclave of twelve countries of the region at Brasilia on May 30. Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated the conference which signalled the arrival of...

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The Bloody History Behind The British Possession Of The Koh-i-Noor

By Girish Linganna The Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan diamonds went on display at an exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday (May 26, 2023) as representations of victory and a ‘symbol of conquest’. The Koh-i-Noor has been displayed as a tourist attraction and is backed by a video which...

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US Govt Putting Pressure On India To Join NATO+ As A Part Of Asia-Pacific Strategy

By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s yearning to be acknowledged as the world leader (Vishwa Guru) has landed India in a unpleasant quagmire endangering its identity and credibility built over the years amongst the global fraternity. The longing was so acute that he even ignored the conventional wisdom to realise...

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Political Outcome From Communal Cauldron May Not Favour BJP

By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has broken its legs in Karnataka   assembly polls when it fell into the pitfalls of majority politics. The party, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left no stone unturned to polarize Hindu majority votes in their favour, but miserably failed. BJP’s loss, if translated...

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No Real Truce Is Ready At Ending Gehlot-Pilot Infighting In Rajasthan Congress

By Sushil Kutty The latest Sachin Pilot-Ashok Gehlot patch-up will last till June 8 when disqualified Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi returns from his trip to the United States where the Congress scion will be raising yet another front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi like he had from...

May 31 · >

Slowdown In Containerized Exports Poses Setback To Pro-Export Agenda

By K Raveendran There is a marked slowdown in the containerized exports from India, attributed mainly to a decline in consumer demand for Indian goods in the US, EU and the UK markets, according to data from Container xChange, a leading online platform for container logistics. This trend has...

May 31 · >

Sons Of First Joint Climbers Of Mount Everest Are Carrying The Legacy Of Their Fathers

By Harihar Swarup The first Everest climbers families took their person bond and love for the mountains to a new high on May 29, 1953, seventy years after that great achievement by tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who became global icons during that period. Tenzing Norgay’s son Jamling and...

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Shiites And Not Jews Emerge As Touchstone Of Saudi Moderation

By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia has removed anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli references from Islamic studies schoolbooks, according to an Israeli textbook watchdog. The watchdog, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), said the deletions were part of a broader textbook revision that also eliminated...

May 31 · >

Kerala Govt To Move SC Against Centre’s Cut In Net Borrowings Ceiling

 By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a swift move, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala has decided to move the Supreme Court  challenging the Union Government’s decision to drastically cut the State’s net borrowing ceiling(NBC) on market borrowings for 2023-24. This was one of the decisions taken at...

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