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By Nantoo Banerjee The United States Trade Representative, Ms. Katherine Chi Tai, may not be fully aware that most of the high-tech mass market electronics gadgets such as laptops, tablets and personal computers under global US brands exported to India are not manufactured in the US. They are built...
PM’s Bid To Rouse Passions On The Issue Of Sanatan Dharma Failing In Poll Bound Five States
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hindutva brand politics seems to be in trouble in all the five poll bound states – Telangana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Mizoram – for which election schedule are to be announce within few weeks from now. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come on the...
Two Term Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Still At His Peak On Turning 74
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 74 on Sunday, September 17. Who cares is what one set of people say. The other set’s cloying sycophancy was on full display. That said, successful people have charisma. What about Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Hundreds of millions hang on to...
RSS Conclave At Pune Charts Out Roadmap For Bringing BJP To Power Again
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of Atal Behari Vajpayee advice to Narendra Modi, within a month of the Gujarat pogrom, that he should follow Rajdharma, the RSS Joint General Secretary Manmohan Vaidya told the three-day RSS coordination meet at Pune that situation in Manipur continues to be “worrisome” but the...
Samajwadi Party Is Still Waiting For Signal From The Congress For Talks
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Ghosi assembly by-election victory has boosted the morale of leaders and workers of INDIA partners Samajwadi Party, Congress and RLD to take on BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party is a bigger partner with more than 100 MLAs in UP...
Making India A Developed Country By 2047 As Projected By PM Is A Challenging Task
By Arun Kumar The Prime Minister has set the goal of India becoming a developed country by 2047. On the way, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is soon going to surpass that of Germany and Japan, if the current official rates of growth are maintained. In today’s world, projecting...
Maratha Quota Still Remains A Live Issue In Maharashtra As Lok Sabha Poll Approaches
By Tirthankar Mitra Quota for Marathas, a decades old issue remains a problem vexing successive dispensations in Maharashtra. If Manoj Jarange-Patil, the leader spearheading the agitation for quotas has been persuaded by chief minister Eknath Shinde to put the stir on hold for now, a lasting solution does not...
Indian Workers For Decisive Protest Actions Before 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Preparations are afoot on the August 24 decision made in the first ever historic joint national convention of workers and farmers at Talkatora Stadium New Delhi for launching decisive protest actions across the country during forthcoming December-January, with the slogan “Oust Modi, Oust BJP”. Barring...
‘One Nation, One Election’ Proposal Needs Extensive Debate And Discussion
By Harihar Swarup The debate on “one nation, one election” seems to revolve around two related themes — technical feasibility and political motives. The supporters of this motive evoke several technical issues—the ever increasing cost of elections, administrative technicalities and possibilities of corruption, the negative impact of frequent elections...
Delivery Of Packets By Drones May Become Mainstream Sooner Than Expected
By K Raveendran Drone cameras at weddings and social events no longer make eyes pop up. But the day may not be far off when your favourite pizza will be delivered to you by a drone rather than the Swiggy rider, adding to the chaotic scenes on the roads...
Dissensions And Infighting Mark BJP Party In Madhya Pradesh As Poll Approaches
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is paying special attention to Madhya Pradesh reports of mounting discontent and anger in the party are pouring in Bhopal from various areas of the state. It was Prime Minister’s sixth visit to Madhya Pradesh in the last six...
Climate Strikes Bring Gradual But Definite Change In Global Environment
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Global Climate Strike, initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, with events scheduled for September 15 and 17. By the time of going to press, the strike has started in several countries and Thunberg’s Twitter page has...
Confusion And Uncertainty Shape Debate About United States’ Gulf Policy
By James M Dorsey Debates about the US commitment to Gulf security are skewed by confusion, miscommunication, and contradictory policies. The skewing has fuelled uncertainty about US policy as well as Gulf attitudes in an evolving multi-polar world and fuelled misconceptions and misunderstandings. The confusion is all the more...
RSS-BJP Aggressively Working To Metamorphose Our Secular Republic Into Hindu Rashtra
By Sitaram Yechury As India approaches the 75th anniversary of the constitutional republic (2025), the Hindutva narrative is being aggressively scripted to metamorphose the secular democratic character of the republic into a fascistic Hindutva rashtra. The prerequisite for this is to ensure that the Modi led BJP government wins...
Prime Minister Is Making Full Use Of ’Sanatan Dharm’ Row To Trap The INDIA Alliance Before 2024
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has thrown a “Brahmafans” (the unfailing thread to traps the enemy), if we can use the mythological metaphor from ‘Sanatan Dharm’, the term he used to attack on INDIA alliance alleging that their leaders want to destroy Sanatan Dharm....
INDIA Alliance’s Decision To Blacklist 14 Anchors Of TV News Channels Makes No Sense
By Sushil Kutty It is one of the most foolhardy things to do, the Congress decision that the INDIA alliance parties will not send spokespersons to prime-time shows of 14 television anchors. It is poor decision-making. Hasty also. It is tantamount to boycotting the media not knowing when it...
All Eyes On Dalit Voters In Uttar Pradesh In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra Which way will the Dalits go in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh? Will they turn to BSP, or vote for either of the rival blocs, I.N.D.I.A., or NDA? Dalit votes also get bifurcated on the basis of sub-castes. For example, Jatav, Pasi,...
G20 Declaration Gave Lipservice To Tackling The Urgent Economic Issues
By Prabhat Patnaik The G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute economic crisis of the world economy. The advanced capitalist economies are expected by the IMF to witness a growth slowdown from 2.7 per cent in 2022 to 1.3 per cent in 2023; according...
