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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Nantoo Banerjee At a time when the countries such as the United States, Japan and South Korea are going slow on electric vehicles (EVs) for various reasons, it is difficult to understand why India is going gaga over its utility, substantially raising the EV production and sales targets...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP’s election manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha polls is presentation of a romantic view of India’s future. It is a camouflage grandiloquence and guarantees given fall short of any specific commitment. It talked about “good governance” and left its meaning to be understood by imagination,...
By Kalyani Shankar The Lok Sabha elections are coming up in Karnataka and will be held in 28 constituencies on April 26 and May 7. The Congress party and the BJP-JD(S) alliance will compete to win voters’ support. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the state multiple times to...
By Arun Srivastava With the Lok Sabha elections coming closer, RSS and Narendra Modi have started showing their true colours unnerving the voters tasked to elect their destiny-makers. Modi has made his intentions long clear that he would go to any extent to rig and turn the election results...