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By K Raveendran This week was momentous for democracy, freedom, liberty and corporate governance in the Supreme Court, a week that saw a number of landmark decisions that made democracy more meaningful being squeezed into the relatively short period. The first and foremost was of course the decision to...
Raipur Plenary Decisions Signal Small Advance For Congress Compared To Its Task For 2024
By Harihar Swarup In 1989 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party lost the tag of being a “dominant” party. Since then, it has not figured out how to remain competitive in a multi-party, federal polity. As the next Lok Sabha elections are due in 2024, it continues to face...
Factional Battle Intensifies In Congress In Kerala Again
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Recrudescence of the faction war in the Kerala unit of the Congress has taken the shine off the plenary session of the party which concluded in Raipur, Chhattisgarh on February 26. The party in Kerala has clearly failed to imbibe the spirit of the unity...
Shifting Of Muslim Votes To Congress At Sagardighi Bypoll Is Alarming For Trinamool
By Tirthankar Mitra The victory of Congress Left combine at Sagardighi constituency by poll in West Bengal lets the seven year old poll alliance taste electoral success after a long time. For after 2021 Assembly election debacle, bitter taste of failure was its constant companion. The results of Sagardighi...
India’s Unemployment Crisis Set To Worsen Further Next Fiscal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Data from various sources, both government and private, clearly indicate that the unemployment crisis in India is worsening, and is set to worsen further in 2023. Unemployment rate in the country rose from 7.14 per cent in January to 7.45 per cent in February. On...
Taliban Hunt ‘U.S. Collaborators’ Through Biometric Identification
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Finally, Afghan nationals who had joined America’s war on terror and extended cooperation are being hunted-down by Taliban jihadists through biometric identification. It is also learnt that a section of heavily Islamist officers inside Pakistani spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) are also selling information...
Bypoll Results Show Congress Emerging Stronger In The States
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress winning three Vidhan Sabha Constituencies and the BJP and its ally winning two in the byelections held for five seats in four states’ legislative assemblies –Maharashtra, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu – is defeat a clear indication of the Congress emerging stronger vis-à-vis...
Supreme Court Order On Composition Of Election Commission Is A Positive Step
By Sushil Kutty Before the year is out there will be more than one troubling contretemp for the Bharatiya Janata Party. For the Supreme Court, and for the Modi government, too. Both are in the middle of a war over the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and his...
Modi Ecosystem Presenting Distorted Image Of Tripura Poll Verdict
By Arun Srivastava Riding on the back of the regional forces in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the political ecosystem of the BJP has put its entire effort and resources into projecting Narendra Modi as the invincible leader and new face of the New India. The BJP megaphones in the media...
Eye On Lok Sabha 2024 Polls, Congress Renews Focus On Social Justice
By Rahil Nora Chopra In an attempt to revive the politics of social justice before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress made 85 amendments in its constitution at its 85th plenary session, seeking to provide 50 percent reservation to scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), other backward classes...
Suspension Of Start By President Putin Imparts A New Dimension To Ukraine War
By Prabir Purkayastha The Ukraine War has now completed one year. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of the war is that the New START, the last remaining arms control agreement on nuclear weapons and missiles, has also gone into limbo. On February 21, President Putin announced that Russia has...
Trinamool Congress Has Got A Big Jolt In State Assembly Elections
By Ashis Biswas Ironically, opposition parties in India were further divided by the outcome of Assembly elections in three Northeastern states, not to mention the Sagardighi seat by- election in West Bengal. In broad terms, the Left parties and the Indian National Congress (INC) fared much better than their...
DMK Supremo M K Stalin’s Call For Broadest Unity Of Opposition Against BJP Is The Need Of The Hour
By Binoy Biswam The decisive battle is coming closer. In this battle the very idea of India is at stake. The forces, which control political power since 2014, are adamant to prepare the ground in their favour. They have mobilized all their resources to win the battle once again. ...
RBI Is Yet To Find A Viable Policy Of Balancing Both Inflation And Growth
By Anjan Roy The latest GDP figures show that the Indian economy is slowing down. The last quarterly figures indicted national income grew by 4.4%, which was lower than in the preceding two quarters. This was immediately ascribed to the hikes in interest rates by the Reserve Bank for...
New Netanyahu Govt In Israel Has Intensified Attacks Against Palestinians
By Prakash Karat Ever since Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government comprising far-right and ultra-orthodox religious parties, at the end of last year, there has been a spate of attacks by the Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. The Netanyahu government has declared...
Narendra Modi’s Backing To Yediyurappa Signals Nod To Communal Politics
By Arun Srivastava Eulogy of senior BJP leader B S Yediyurappa as the strongest and tallest political figure from the Lingayat community by the prime minister Narendra Modi early this week at a public meeting certainly is an ominous indicator of the political development that would entail in the...
Political Fallout Of Manish Sisodia’s Arrest Does Not Favour BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Getting Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia arrested might have been thought of by Modi-Shah duo as masterstroke to politically finish AAP and its leader Arvind Kejriwal to prevent their emergence as chief challenger to BJP and its leader Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha...
The Bizarre Story Of Gangsters In Uttar Pradesh Under Yogi Regime
By Sushil Kutty India has the most number of gangsters-turned-politicians and one of them is Atiq Ahmed of Prayagraj, who is petrified he will go the way of Vikas Dubey, another gangster of the same neck of the woods, who was killed after the police jeep bringing him to...
