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New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee met with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi today in their first meeting since the two
  Srinagar: A massive volume of water rushed down from the mountains near the holy cave of Amarnath in Jammu
Lucknow: 18 labourers, sleeping on the road in front of a bus, were crushed to death this morning by a
  Basavaraj Bommai, home minister in BS Yediyurappa's cabinet, was picked to succeed him as the Chief Minister of Karnataka
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive in India on a two-day visit on Tuesday with an extensive agenda
  Guwahati: Gunshots ringing out on the highway, puffs of smoke, a road littered with stones and tear gas canisters

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Prime Minister’s Refusal To Probe The Fraud In Adani Group Smacks Of An Unholy Alliance

By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blocked the demand raised by the Opposition in the Parliament for an enquiry to be monitored by the Supreme Court or to set up Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Adani group’s manipulations of the stock market and fraud and into...

Feb 9 · >

BJP Is Derailing Democracy In Delhi Hurting Federalism

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The result of the election for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) held on December 4, was declared on December 7, 2022. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had won 134 seats in a house of 250. The BJP that had been ruling the MCD for the last...

Feb 9 · >

Modi Govt’s 2023-24 Budget Proposals Have No Clue To Dealing With Job Crisis

By Subodh Verma The union budget for 2023-24 has unveiled a big assault on lives and livelihoods of the people. Spending on schemes and programmes that provide direct economic benefit to people has been slashed across the board. But even bigger and more alarming are the sins of omission....

Feb 9 · >

The Threat Of Corona Virus Is Still Not Over, Precautions Are Needed

By Sushil Kutty It speaks a lot that human beings are by their very nature courageous. True, but also true is the fact that human beings are foolhardy and brave. Like, how many of us continue to wear the mask, which in the heyday of Covid-19 kept the novel...

Feb 9 · >

Where Does Indian CBDC’s 50K-User Milestone Fit In Global Innovations?

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that the retail e-rupee has accomplished the first milestone set for it – 50,000 users. Launched on December 1, 2022, the e-rupee is India’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot which was launched within a closed group...

Feb 9 · >

Battle To Control Microchip Supplies Will Define Twenty-First Century

By Ben Wray If energy resources are the heart of global capitalism, pumping fuel around its body to keep it accumulating, its brain is made up of trillions of semiconductors. Cars, bombs, phones, refrigerators, even energy systems — today, they all rely on the computer processing power of chips....

Feb 9 · >

India’s Crony Capitalism Thriving With Tacit Support Of State Power

By Arun Srivastava It is for the first time in the history of the RSS, the proponent of politics and philosophy of Hindutva, that it has come out in the favour of a capitalist. The reason is simple: to protect the interest of its political front, the BJP, and...

Feb 8 · >

Can BJP Afford To Depend On Hindutva Campaign For Assembly Elections?

By Sushil Kutty ‘Hindu-versus-Hindutva’, and the ‘casteism’ that plagues Hindu society are the issues for the 2023 9-states’ assembly elections, as well as for the 2024 general elections. Ask people from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and they will agree. Especially after the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi....

Feb 8 · >

Survey Finds Iran To Be Ripest Country In Middle East For A Revolution

By James M Dorsey A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest in Iran, although crisis-wracked Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria may compete. Surveyed in late December by the Netherlands-based Gamaan Institute, an overwhelming majority of the 158,000...

Feb 8 · >

Reversal Of Fortunes For Steel Industry As Price Increase Picks Up Momentum

By K Raveendran Further hikes in steel prices are in the offing as upside risks in the global markets have strengthened in recent weeks. Faced with a decline in global production, manufacturers across the world are raising their prices. Indian steel mills have already effected a 3-5 percent increase...

Feb 8 · >
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