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By K R Sudhaman The G20 summit under India’s presidency to be held in New Delhi next week on September 9 and 10 could not have come at any time better for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to highlight the need to establish a new World order that is free...
India-China Confrontation Over Water Resources In Himalayas Accentuates
By Girish Linganna As diplomatic efforts persist in addressing the ongoing border standoff between China and India, a fresh source of tension is emerging, centred around water resources. New Delhi is in the process of revitalizing 12 hydropower projects along the border, while China is actively constructing a substantial...
Puthuppally Bypoll In Kerala: No Cakewalk For Congress
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the Left Democratic Front (LDF) score an upset victory in Puthuppally Assembly constituency, which is going to the polls on September 5? That is the million dollar question agitating the minds of Keralites. The by-election has been necessitated by the passing away of former...
Uttam Kumar, A Quintessential Screen Heart Throb Of Bengalees
By Tirthankar Mitra Born in a house in Ahiritola in the heart of north Kolkata on September 3, 1926, and growing up in a middle class joint family household in Bhowanipore, Arun Kumar Chattopadhayay did not quite stand out in a crowd when he first sought to essay the...
Modi Govt’s ‘Shock And Awe’ Strategy Mainly Aimed At Overwhelming Opposition
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s dramatic moves to convene an out of turn parliament session later this month and set up a panel headed by former President Ramnath Kovind to study the possibility of introducing one nation policy may be part of a ‘shock and awe’ policy...
INDIA Alliance In Need Of Taking Along Workers And Farmers
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though, at the conclusion of the third INDIA alliance meet in Mumbai on September 1, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has promised ‘a clear set of ideas’ to involve ‘the farmers, and the workers’ in the progress of this country, what actually needed is to devise...
Big Exodus Of BJP Leaders To Congress Continues Before Assembly Polls
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: There is near exodus from BJP to join the Congress. Among them who are leaving BJP include sitting MLAs and important party leaders. Significantly those who are leaving are listing two factors – rampant corruption and being ignored because of the preference being given...
In Ghosi By-Poll In Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Is Fighting Its First Battle Against NDA
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The entire country is watching the first electoral battle between NDA and the just formed INDIA being fought in Ghosi assembly by-election in Uttar Pradesh. This is direct fight between BJP candidate Dara Singh Chauhan who belongs to OBC and supported by NDA factions and...
Sudden Calling Of A Special Session Of Parliament Is Another Gimmick Of PM
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to keep people guessing. In fact, he thoroughly enjoys the experience whether all the people like it or not; for, there is always a comfortable majority which votes for him and the quirks of electoral democracy ensure he remains in power....
Mamata’s Opposition To Caste Census Is Not Helping INDIA Alliance
By Arun Srivastava West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to accept Nitish Kumar as the convener of the opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc, while also expressing aggressive hostility to a caste census, has not gone down well among the backward caste people as well as Dalit and OBC leaders of...
High Inflationary Pressure On Economy Has Emerged As Major Issue For 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup The most significant political development this year is not the formation of the Indian Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), a congregation of forces opposed to the BJP. It isn’t the tentative alliance that BJP is seeking to build with its older and newer partners. And it it’s...
Decoding The Work Of The Great Film Lyricist Shailendra Who Mesmerised Common Viewers
By Tirthankar Mitra A self effacing man with a deep commitment to egalitarianism who worked as a welding apprentice in Indian Railways, Shailendra would have been just another man in a crowd whose birth and passing do not deserve a mention had he not given vent to his penchant...
Uttar Pradesh Politics Signals A Significant Change
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ghosi assembly bypoll has signalled a significant change in Uttar Pradesh politics. Congress joined Samajwadi Party’s election campaign, the first of its kind after the formation of INDIA opposition alliance. The election is scheduled for September 5, and it is the firs one-on-on electoral battle...
In The Expanded BRICS Grouping, There Are Three Distinct Kinds Of Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik At the Johannesburg summit of the BRICS countries, it was decided to expand the group beyond its original five, namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to include six more countries. These are: Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. These...
INDIA Alliance Constituents Have To Implement One On One Formula In 400 Seats
By Sushil Kutty In January 2019 — ahead of the May 2019 general elections — a ‘Mood of the Nation’ survey suggested that the BJP could be electorally wiped out in Uttar Pradesh if the Congress joined the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party in an alliance. It said the BJP...
We Have Many Prime Ministerial Candidates, NDA Has Just One: I.N.D.I.A.
By Rahil Nora Chopra The race has finally begun on who would be the I.N.D.I.A. alliance prime ministerial candidate. The current political buzz says that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former Congress...
Sudden Rahul-Abhishek Meeting Upsets Congress Leaders In West Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra West Bengal Congress leaders are in a tizzy before September 5 Dhupguri by election owing to the no longer secret meeting between former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress de facto number two Abhishek Banerjee. The state Congress unit appears to be a divided house...
Will India Be Able To Deal With Google’s Advertisement Tech Monopoly?
By Praneel Panchagavi Alphabet Inc.’s digital giant Google has established itself as the largest digital advertising platform in India and accumulated around ₹25,000 crores in ad revenue in 2022. However, the underlying phenomena behind such success lies within the monopolisation of advertisement technology (adtech) by Google. The tech giant...
