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By S.N. Sahu Mahatma Gandhi wrote an article titled ‘Speakers and Politics’ in the Harijan on July 17, 1938. In it he made some illuminating and thoughtful observations. He wrote: “… he speaker’s position assumes very high importance, greater than that of the Prime Minister. For he has to...
Heatwave Becomes A Major Concern Now To Indian Economy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The prediction of normal rainfall in March by India Meteorological Department (IMD) in the range of 83-117 per cent in the country on the basis of the long-period average made the people, the Centre, and the state governments a sort of psychological relief, belittling the...
Momentous Week For Indian Democracy As Supreme Court Orders Course Correction
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...
