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By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury While evidence has emerged pointing to disturbing nexus between numerous politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and European Union as well as US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and an undesignated terrorist organization in Bangladesh, there is report about embattled MP from...
Centre Has No Clue On How To Bring To An End The Continuing Violence In Manipur
By Sushil Kutty Police stopped Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Manipur and without being asked “what next for Manipur?” the disqualified Congress Member of Parliament said, “Manipur needs healing” – the panacea the violence-hit Manipuris have been yearning for months. Distraught people everywhere, across time zones and over the...
Tamil Nadu Is Getting Big Focus In BJP’s Lok Sabha Poll Strategy For Southern States
By S. Sethuraman Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday night chaired a nearly five hour long huddle of the BJP top brass to discuss organisational and government changes, narrative focus and strategy and tools for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The meeting at the official residence of...
Risk To India’s Growth Trajectory In 2023-24 Fiscal Is Real
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.5 per cent during 2023-24 with risks evenly balanced at this juncture, the slower global growth, potential volatility in the global financial system, and the persistence of core inflation, notwithstanding a dip in April 2023, could pose...
BJP Scores A Self-Goal On Uniform Civil Code Move And Manipur Clashes
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Government’s failure to control the riots raging in Manipur and the move to bring in a uniform civil code in the country have evoked strong protests from the opposition parties not only in Kerala but also across the nation. At one stroke, the...
Possibility Of Cabinet Reshuffle Gives Modi Ministers The Jitters
By Rahil Nora Chopra Prime Minster Narendra Modi, just after returning from his first State visits to the US and Egypt, met with President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. While it is standard practice that the prime minister briefs the President on foreign visits, the fact his meeting...
BrahMos Aerospace To Produce World’s Fastest Supersonic Cruise Missile
By Girish Linganna BrahMos Aerospace, The Indo-Russian missile maker, recently announced that they had concluded the initial design of a new generation of BrahMos-NG missiles. The export director of the missile producer has stated to Russian news agency Sputnik that the design of the forthcoming BrahMos-NG missiles has been...
Centre’s Announced Minimum Support Price For Current Kharif Season Is Inadequate
By Dr. Soma Marla In the initial days of June, the Indian agriculture sector witnessed three important events. Farmers in Kurukshetra waged a two-week agitation as the state government refused to procure Sunflower seeds at the minimum support price (MSP) announced by the government. Second incident the union government...
Looking Back At Stonewall Rebellion By Gays Fifty Four Years Ago
By C.J. Atkins Fifty four years ago, on June 28, 1969, when a bar named the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village became ground zero for the modern gay rights movement, there were, of course, no corporate sponsors. No political allies in positions of power. And rather than keeping people...
Dilemma And Desperation Plague BJP Top Brass Before Lok Sabha Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Karnataka loss in May this year despite the twin strategy of BJP – high decibel election campaign focussing on polarisation of Hindu votes and harping on PM Modi’s charisma – that shocked the top brass of the party, has now finding itself into a deep...
Big Power Rivalry Influencing Bangladesh Polls Due In January 2024
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, East Pakistan used to receive international media attention only during its natural calamities. Major powers remained mostly fixated on the tensions and conflicts involving India and West Pakistan. Even after breaking away from Pakistan, Bangladesh had to wait patiently for nearly three decades...
With UCC, RSS And Modi Press Nuclear Button Of Communal Divisiveness
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is not known for speaking rationally. This time he has faulted in the matter of raking up Uniform Civil Code. While justifying his stand, he said that the country cannot have two laws: one for Hindu and a second one for the ‘other’. By...
Congress Leadership Truce At Chhattisgarh Bodes Well For Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, two states ruled by the Congress are scheduled to go polls before the year is out. Also, both with a leadership problem at the state level! Those were the similarities till a couple of days ago when the Congress high command, after years...
India Seems To Have Lost Its Strategic Autonomy In Global Diplomacy After PM Visit To USA
By P. Sudhir The outcome of the Modi visit to the United States has made one thing clear – India has become more cemented to the United States in a strategic and military relationship. Whatever the rhetoric “of the partnership between two democracies” and shared values, the compulsions for...
A Look Back At The Fascist Aggression Against Soviet Union In 1941 Is Timely
By Krishna Jha It was more than eight decades back, when on June 22, 1941, Hitler launched his fascist attack on Soviet Union. The onslaught was called Operation Barbarossa. Six years before the Operation Barbarossa, Georgi Dimitrov, the general secretary of the Communist International, in his famous address to...
Bengal BJP Divided Over Nominating Its Candidate For Rajya Sabha Poll
By Tirthankar Mitra As the campaign for the panchayat elections is in full swing in West Bengal murmurs of divided opinion have arisen in BJP’s state unit over the choice of a candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha elections in the state. The polls to the Upper House are...
Donald Trump Hints At Deportation Of Communists From US, If Elected
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON: Attempting to deflect attention from his criminal indictment on charges of violating the Espionage Act, former President Donald Trump is escalating his use of anti-communist and anti-Semitic red-baiting rhetoric to smear opponents and investigators. For years, Trump has wielded accusations of left-wing radicalism against anyone...
Gujarat Gets Status Of First Among Equals In Line With Modi’s Love For Home State
By K Raveendran The standard definition of crony capitalism is the existence of an economic system characterised by mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials. Going by this, at least two major decisions this week are India-centric, though with linkages to domestic as well as international. The...
