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  Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in Delhi on the night of January
  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security last evening to  assess
  Lucknow: A sedition case has been filed against a Samajwadi Party MP and two others in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal
New Delhi: Former CBI official Rakesh Asthana's appointment to the post of Commissioner of Delhi Police and his one-year extension
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice before admission to the Central Government in a batch of petitions seeking probe
New Delhi: The government today announced a new category of electronic visa to fast-track applications from Afghans who wish to leave

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Bernie Sanders Gives Eight Lessons To The Americans In His New Book

By Yaseen Al-Sheikh It’s an exciting and frustrating time to be a socialist in the United States of America. On the one hand, the two presidential bids launched by Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020 helped precipitate a resurgence of anti-capitalist political organization and labour militancy, with organizations like...

Feb 25 · >

Congress Plenary In Raipur Has To Adopt A Flexible Approach To Opposition Parties To Take On BJP

By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress plenary session in Raipur which began on February 24 has to perform the historic task to frame its policy of alliance with the non-BJP opposition parties which are ready to take on the saffrons in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress is the...

Feb 24 · >

Will Shashi Tharoor Make It To The Congress Working Committee?

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Shashi Tharoor make it to the Congress Working Committee (CWC)? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Congress leaders and workers in Kerala even as the 85th plenary session of the Congress begins in Raipur   on February 24. While Congress president Mallikarjun...

Feb 24 · >

Supreme Court Order In Favour Of EPS Led AIADMK Is A Setback To BJP

By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) who will henceforth remain in sole control of the AIADMK. It is a blow to rival O Panneerselvam (OPS), and a setback to the BJP’s Tamil Nadu ambitions. That said, the top court only upheld...

Feb 24 · >

BJP In Alliance Talks With Kushwaha, Chirag Paswan For 2024 Polls

By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024, the BJP is in talks for alliance with the disgruntled JDU leader Upendra Kushwaha, the chief of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), Mukesh Sahani, as well as with the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader, Chirag Paswan. In...

Feb 24 · >

Centre’s Actions In BBC Income Tax Surveys Are Blatantly Unlawful

By Tushar Kohli and Vineet Bhalla The raids last week at the offices of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Mumbai and Delhi — officially a ‘survey’ under the Income-tax Act, 1961 — provided further proof that the ruling dispensation at the Centre has an abysmally low tolerance for anything...

Feb 24 · >

Mental Health Of Indian Children And Youth Deteriorating

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Mental health of Indian children and youth has been deteriorating, if ever increasing number of their suicides is of any indication. Girls below the age of 18 are more vulnerable than boys, while boys between 18-30 are more prone to fall in the trap. Since...

Feb 24 · >

The New York Left Is Continuing To Make Political Gains At The State Level

By Liza Featherstone The New York State Senate voted down Governor Kathy Hochul’s conservative nominee for chief judge last Wednesday. On the same day, that body also took major steps toward enacting New York City Democratic Socialists of America’s (NYC-DSA) environmental agenda. Throughout the week, Democratic legislators in Albany...

Feb 24 · >

European Economy Is The Worst Sufferer In One Year Of Ukraine War

By Dr. Nilanjan Banik February 24, 2023 marks the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war. What seems to be a fight between David and Goliath is still continuing. The Russian armed force has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, the second largest fleet of ballistic missiles, and almost...

Feb 23 · >

Biden’s Visit To Kiev Has Encouraged Ukraine To Escalate The One Year Old War

By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins Most of the corporate media hailed President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Kiev this past weekend where he met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, whom the administration has said cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons or diplomatic negotiations, was told ahead of time,...

Feb 23 · >
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