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Election Commission Is Giving PM More Time To Announce Projects In Gujarat

By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state....

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Azam Khan’s Sentence Is Okay But What About Hate Speeches By BJP Leaders

By Arun Srivastava Only after six days of the Supreme Court passing stringent orders to the police chiefs of Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh to file suo motu cases against hate speeches made by people from any religion, and warned of contempt action if the orders of the court...

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Mayawati Making Serious Efforts To Win Over Muslim Support In Uttar Pradesh

By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati is busy these days to enlarge the support base of her party to face civic polls and later on Lok Sabha polls in 2024. After worst ever performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held in March this year,...

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Christian Nationalism A New Threat To Israel’s National Security

By James M Dorsey The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive...

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Decoding How Mussolini Came To Power In Italy One Hundred Years Ago

By Clara E. Mattei Beneto Mussolini took over effective power in Italy in October 1922Just over a month after the Italian fascists’ March on Rome in October 1922, the parliamentary votes of the National Fascist Party, the Liberal Party, and the People’s Party (or the popolari, a Catholic party...

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BJP Is Using The Electoral Bonds Scheme To Cripple The Opposition

By Nitya Chakraborty   Latest reports that the BJP leadership has offered a few legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti a total of Rs. 1,00 crore has created furore in the state capital Hyderabad and as usual the BJP leaders have denied this. But, this type of move...

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Handing Over Tata-Airbus Project To Gujarat Is The Height Of Partiality

By Sushil Kutty   Prime Minister Narendra Modi has handed the prestigious and precious C-295 Tata-Airbus project to Gujarat, his home state which will go to polls any time before the year is out, but the election date for which hasn’t been announced yet! Could it be that the...

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Tory Party And Its Backers Favour Unbridled Capitalist Practices

By Prabhat Patnaik   The most intriguing question with regard to Liz Truss’ resignation as the prime minister of Britain after a mere 44 days in office is this: what is it about her economic programme that the “market” (read “finance capital”) found unpalatable? At its core after all...

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Tharoor Absent In Kharge’s High-Level Steering Committee

By Rahil Nora Chopra   With Mallikarjun Kharge taking over as the new president of the Indian National Congress, a steering committee with 47 members — including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, AK Antony, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Salman Khurshid and Jairam Ramesh — has been constituted...

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No Sign Of Early Peace In Myanmar As Junta Intensifies Its Attacks

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav   In a meeting of foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries on Thursday, ways to reduce conflict in Myanmar were discussed. The regional block that comprises 10 member countries including Myanmar held its meeting without Myanmar, which has been barred...

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