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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau was interviewed by Rebel News and the interviewer asked him: why people don’t like you. Trudeau replied: “I think there is a lot of frustration with the way the world is unfolding and the frustration is being taken out...
CM Patnaik & PM Modi Declare Date & Time For Govt Formation
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi laughs at politicians you never think he thinks of. Like for example, Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha, the quietest politician in the hemisphere and not even remotely a threat. But Prime Minister Modi sees an adversary and Patnaik gets Modi’s goat,...
World’s First Organised Labour Movement Took Place In Kashmir In 1865
By Iftikhar Gilani Across the globe, people observe Labour Day on May 1 to commemorate the protests in 1886 at Haymarket Square, Chicago and express solidarity with workers. But not many people know that much before this incident, the world’s first organised labour and trade union movement had...
BSP Supremo Mayawati Has Changed Some Party Candidates To Help BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party national president Mayawati is under tremendous pressure to retain 10 Lok Sabha seats won in 2019 and also to help BJP. In the beginning the manner in which Mayawati fielded candidates and announced her nephew Akash Anand to be national coordinator and...
Jose Raul Mulino Elected New President Of Panama In Prez Polls On Sunday
By Satyaki Chakraborty Jos Raul Mulino was elected as the new president of the Central American country Panama in the national polls held on Sunday May 5. He got 34.35 per cent of the votes as against 24.83 per cent received by his closest rival Ricardo Lombana. There were...
Sunita Williams’ Space Mission Delayed, New Launch Dates Explored
By Girish Linganna The launch of Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, which was scheduled to carry astronaut Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, into space for her third mission, has been delayed because of a technical issue. No new launch date has been announced. This was set to...
Women Voters Will Play A Decisive Role In Bringing Down BJP Tally In Karnataka
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The crucial third phase of Lok Sabha election is most likely to bring more seats in the BJP’s bag compared to the first and second phase of elections, but it is not bringing any cheer on PM Narendra Modi’s face. Conversely, the struggle of the...
Bengal Governor Desperate To Wriggle Out Of Molestation Case
By Arun Srivastava Contemporary politics and the idea of India have undergone enormous changes. The tenets of probity, transparency and morality have lost values and relevance. What is happening in West Bengal in the midst of the Lok Sabha elections is a good indicator of that decline. First, West...
Congress-CPI(M) Combine Working Together In Murshidabad District Of Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Even as once sworn political opponents Congress and the CPI(M) close ranks in West Bengal as a part of INDIA alliance against BJP, the coalition partners are likely to go separate ways after the election is over. The parting of ways post election has been trend...
Congress Hopeful Of Good Performance In Third Phase Of Polls In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Two former Chief Ministers and one Union Minister are among the candidates who will seek people’s mandate on May 7 in Madhya Pradesh. They are Digvijay Singh who is contesting from Rajgarh, which is his home constituency and the other former Chief Minister Shivraj...
