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By Harihar Swarup The Thackeray-Shinde feud has split the Nation. While some commentators are critical of Eknath Shinde’s departure, terming it as a subversion of party politics, others find it to be a correction of Uddhav Thackeray’s departure from the alliance with the BJP in 2019. The dissension within...
Russia Surprises Sanction-Slappers By Exporting More Oil Than Before
By K Raveendran It is becoming increasingly clear that the western sanctions against Russia for its Ukraine invasion is hurting Europe more than these were meant to harm Moscow. While a guaranteed energy crisis is staring Europe on its face due to the stoppage of gas flow from Russia,...
Economic Crisis Is The Main Focus As Tories Choose Britain’s Next Prime Minister
By Arun Srivastava For rightist Conservative Party, choosing a visionary and able administrator as the prime minister in place of Boris Johnson has indeed become a major combative task. This was for the first time that party was deprived of a talented leader. After coming to power three years...
‘Alleged’ PFI Document Makes Some Dangerous Observations About India
By Sushil Kutty Those who wrote the PFI document, currently in circulation, to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047 know their English. The grammar is clean and it took the author just eight pages to conquer India lock, stock and barrel. The long and short of it...
Controversy In Kerala Over CPI(M) Leader’s ‘Anti-Women’ Remark
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming political row has erupted over the controversial comment made by former minister and CPI(M) MLA M M Mani against Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) MLA K K Rema in the Kerala Assembly. The Opposition United democratic Front (UDF) has demanded an apology from Mani,...
Spotlight on U.S. Double Standards In Dealing With Turkey And Middle East
By James M Dorsey US and European acquiescence in Turkey’s long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights came home to roost when Turkey initially objected to Finnish and Swedish membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Ultimately, Turkey postponed potential conflict in NATO by dropping...
Not Bharat Jodo Yatra – Congress Should Campaign On BJP Gujarat, Himachal Choro
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress high command led by president Sonia Gandhi decided at its Thursday meeting to start its proposed Bharat Jodo yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir within next few weeks and this yatra is scheduled to cover twelve states and two union territories measuring 3500 kms in...
Foreign Powers In Full Play As Sri Lanka Moves To Choose New President
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent his resignation — first by email and a hard copy flown in from Singapore. The authenticity of the resignation has been verified and it has been accepted as authentic. The Parliament Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, officially announced the...
Senior BJP Legislator’s Allegations Create A Furore In Party
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: During the last week strange things have happened in Madhya Pradesh. Among these are the allegations by a senior BJP legislator Narayan Tripathi against his own party. Narayan Tripathi, ruling party MLA from Maihar constituency has publicly claimed that government officials are campaigning for...
Ukraine War Has Transitioned From Conventional To High Tech Targetted War
By Anjan Roy The battlegrounds in eastern Ukraine are proving to be prey wars between two weapons systems — old Soviet type weapons and those advanced latest weapons developed in the west. The battle worthiness and the effective of the competing firepower would indicate a lot for the future...
NDA Presidential Candidate Droupadi Murmu Is Set To Win On July 18 Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has so far received the backing of BJP, BJD, YSR Congress, TDP, Janata Dal (Secular), Shiromani Akali Dal, JDU, AIADMK, Lok Jan Shakti Party, Apna Dal (Sonelal), Nishad Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Republican Party. Other parties like India (Athawale), NPP,...
Describing 1500 Hindi Words As ‘Unparliamentary’ A Ploy To Protect Modi
By Arun Srivastava The latest move of the government to declare around 1500 Hindi words as unparliamentary is an attempt to colonialize the language, it is also designed to completely transform the neo liberal and democratic image of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a threatening autocrat. With 2024...
Distinct Signs Of Unrest In Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The more things change, the more they remain the same. This seems to be very true in the case of the Congress party in Kerala. The spectacular victory in the Thrikkakara assembly by-election had given a big boost to the party, which has been languishing...
Spectacular People’s Power Is On Display In Sri Lanka
By Prakash Karat People’s power was displayed in a spectacular fashion in Sri Lanka on July 9 when tens of thousands of people stormed the Presidential Palace, the President’s Secretariat and the official residence of the prime minister and took them over, sweeping aside the police and soldiers guarding...
Indian Exports Are Showing Good Growth But More Potential Remains
By K R Sudhaman The recessionary trends in some of the advanced economies and the prolonged Ukraine-Russian war notwithstanding, India’s foreign trade continues to be on the upswing. After clocking over $400 billion merchandise exports for the first time in 2021-22, the new financial year has begun well with...
New Webb Telescope Of NASA Provides Astounding Details Of Sky
By Prabir Purkayastha The new Webb telescope has shown that NASA’s $10 billion investment and 26 years are finally delivering their promise: pictures of the cosmos in depth, detail and quality far beyond what we had. The first images have captivated the public, and astrophysicists are drooling at the...
Latest Chart Of ‘Unparliamentary Words’ Will Make A Mockery Of Debate
By Sushil Kutty ‘Ashamed’, ‘abused’, ‘corrupt’ and ‘betrayed’. These and other select words cannot be used in Parliament. Against each other and against the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Rajya Sabha Chairman, starting Monday, July 18, the first day of the Monsoon Session. For example, honourable MPs cannot term...
Floods, Farming, And Feni – Indian Monsoon Is Finally Here
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India is making news of rains and floods. It seems the entire country from Kerala to the North-East and from Kashmir to Gujarat, India is wet and inundated. Visuals of the roaring flow of rivers and inundated farm and city areas have swarmed social media...
