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By Sushil Kutty The alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is over, “khaalaas” as it is said in the Gulf countries — in UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia… After weeks and months of being taken down by the state unit...
India Can Take The Lead In Implementing Health Equity Of G20 Declaration
By Dr Arun Mitra The declaration on health at the G20 summit has highlighted several objectives. These include Food security; Pandemic preparedness; equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and other medical countermeasures. Concern was shown for growing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Mental health problems and the impact of climate change...
Narendra Modi Expressing Deep Concern About Women Is Misleading
By Dr. Gyan Pathak PM Narendra Modi has been expressing deep concern for women in every election rally in the country after the passage of Women’s Reservation Bill in the Parliament of India with near unanimity, barring only two AIMIM members who opposed it in the Lok Sabha. However,...
BJP’s Second List For Madhya Pradesh Polls Signals That CM Seat Is Open
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: In a surprise and dramatic move, the BJP shifted MPs including three Union Ministers, asking them to contest for the Vidhan Sabha in Madhya Pradesh in the coming polls. Observers feel that this move has twin objectives. The party feels that this time it...
BJP Leadership Recasting Its Strategy For Lok Sabha Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Shocked by humiliating defeat at Ghosi assembly by-polls early this month, an unnerved BJP high command is busy in making new road map to face INDIA in Uttar Pradesh to get maximum seats in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Before Ghosi by-polls, BJP was confident of...
PM’s Speech On IAF Bombing On Mizoram Rebel Areas In 1966 Creates Furore In North East
By Ashis Biswas Among major tribal leaders in India’s Northeast region and influential civil rights organizations, the recent reference made by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in Parliament to the bombing of some areas in Mizoram in 1966 by the Indian Air Force, has revived old, bitter, divisive memories...
Decoding The Renaissance Man Of Bengal Vidyasagar After 203 Years
By Tirthankar Mitra One can enter into a civilized debate or a heated altercation about whether Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar should be remembered for his erudition or his everflowing kindness. It would not be out of place as his 203rd birth anniversary is being widely observed on September 26 but...
PM Narendra Modi May Prepone Lok Sabha Elections To February 2024
By Nitya Chakraborty After the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament in the special session last week, the think-tanks of the BJP aided, by veteran poll strategists, have been busy working out the best time suited to the party for holding the Lok Sabha elections, due in...
Trudeau’s Bid To Involve India In Nijjar Killing Probe Is More Political Than Diplomatic
By Nantoo Banerjee Had Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, been alive today, he would have probably been a little embarrassed, if not distressed, to see his beloved country has become a home of small migrant Sikh terrorist groups hopelessly engineering to separate the...
India-Canada Political And Diplomatic Ties Facing Serious Threat
By Kalyani Shankar The ongoing massive diplomatic row has brought a sudden spotlight on the Canada-India relationship. Differences emerged between the two countries after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged Indian involvement in killing a separatist Sikh activist, Nijjar. Outraged, New Delhi vehemently denied the claim and dismissed it...
Is Rahul Gandhi Finally Emerging As INDIA Candidate To Take On Narendra Modi?
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the front-runner though INDIA’s Rahul Gandhi could be ahead. Ask random Congress leaders and their faith in the Gandhi scion is unwavering. They are adamant Modi has slid behind Rahul Gandhi in people’s reckoning and that the Wayanad MP has left...
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Firm On No Caste Census In West Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Having built Trinamool Congress from the scratch and weeding out those who might question her style of functioning, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is long accustomed to having her ways. But a dilemma confronts her whether to be tagged with imploding...
Inequality Emerging As A Major Election Issue For 2024 Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India is heading closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, two sets of issues are being brought forward before the people of the country. BJP and AIMIM are harping on Hindu and Muslim communalism respectively, the former seems pushing the corruption issue against the...
China’s Low Growth Level Impacting Rejuvenation Of ASEAN Economies
By Subrata Majumder Notwithstanding political rift, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lauded New Delhi declaration of G-20 a diplomatic triumph for India. It pushed India to the leadership for Global South, leveraging its political clout in the world. Eventually, induction of 55 members of AU (African Union) as permanent members...
Political Outsider Stefanos Kasselakis Wins Race To Head Greece’s Left Wing Syriza
By Satyaki Chakraborty In an event of huge political significance for Greece as also Europe, an outsider Stephanos Kasselakis, with no previous experience in the politics of Greece was elected as the President of the Syriza, the main leftwing opposition party in the Greece which ruled the country from...
BRICS Expansion Creates A Global Super Power In Renewable Energy
By K Raveendran The planned expansion of the BRICS bloc, through the addition of new members Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Ethiopia and Argentina, will transform the grouping into a global leader in renewable energy in the coming decades. The six new members will join the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Emerged As A Global Leader
By Harihar Swarup With the success of the G20 summit in Delhi, is Narendra Modi, making a mark globally as Jawaharlal Nehru did on the world stage after Independence? India’s first Prime Minister had carved out a niche for the country as the leader of the non-aligned movement even...
Lok Sabha Member From Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri Was Speaking The Language Of The RSS
By Sushil Kutty After the high of the ‘Naari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’, the BJP is battling getting a bad name because one of its Members of Parliament could not hold his tongue in the Lok Sabha and flung invectives like they are BJP’s lingua franca. BJP’s South Delhi MP...
