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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Electorate of the country has been tossing Congress up and down for quite some time, and the trend is more pronounced in the last one and half year ever since Karnataka elections in May 2023 when people brought the Congress with overwhelming majority throwing the...
Rahul Gandhi’s Political Narrative Has To Be Finetuned To Meet BJP Challenge
By Arun Srivastava Merely an ideological rhetoric for fighting the rightist forces is not enough to motivate the people and build a robust and uncompromising public opinion against these forces, instead the struggle should have an indestructible ideological base. Rahul Gandhi has been consistently describing his new narrative, his...
Bitter Fight For The Udaipur Palace Is A Lesson For Sambhal And Ajmer
By Sushil Kutty Every human has a funny bone. But people fighting among themselves doesn’t bring smiles. The Royals of Rajasthan used to fight. And who hasn’t forgotten the Battle of Haldighati? Nowadays, there is the Battle for the mosque and the temple. There is Sambhal and Ajmer. There...
Uncertainty Over The Appointment Of New BJP State President Damages Party In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Ruling Trinamool Congress and principal Opposition BJP camps in West Bengal are studies in contrast. Apart from the former being on a winning streak, party supremo Mamata Banerjee has the last word in TMC while dissenting voices are being raised in the state BJP unit seeking...
BJP Soon To Pick Nadda’s Replacement, Possibly From OBC, SC Community
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is proceeding and progressing with its internal organisational elections. By the end of this month, states are required to complete elections for booth, district, and division presidents. Following this, new presidents will be elected in half of the states by...
Supreme Court Has Opened A Pandora’s Box Through Its Ayodhya Verdict
By Rashika Bodh On November 25, 2024, the Supreme Court of India upheld the inclusion of the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble of the Constitution. The court, while dismissing a batch of petitions in its seven-page Order, observed, “In 1949, the term ‘secular’ was considered imprecise, as...
Exposure Of Bolsonaro’s Plot To Kill President Lula Shows The Fascist Nature Of Far Right
By Olavo Passos de Souza NEW YORK: Last week, two major events dominated Brazilian public discourse: the G20 summit, and the exposure of an assassination plot that targeted the country’s president, LuizInácio Lula da Silva. Taking place from November 18 to 19 in Rio de Janeiro, the latest summit...
The Rise And Rise Of Another Dynast Priyanka Gandhi Vadra In Indian Politics
By Sushil Kutty Another Nehru-Gandhi made her presence felt in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on November 28. — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with her mother Sonia Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi, also Members of Parliament, she makes up the Gandhi trio, a rare constellation, except that...
Sambhal Events Underline That Supreme Court Must Uphold Sanctity Of Places Of Worship Act
By P Sudhir The recent events in Sambhal and the deaths of five young Muslim men underline the importance of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, l991 enacted by Parliament in that year. This legislation prohibits “conversion of any place of worship” (Section 3) and provides for “the...
COP29 Agreement Has Left Many Gaps In The Final Agreement Needing To Be Tackled
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The UN Climate Conference (COP29), world’s largest climate conference that brought together nearly 200 countries in Baku, Azerbaijan, wrapped up with a hard-fought agreement on climate finance but uncertainties over the climate crisis mitigation still looms large. Tripling finance to developing countries from $100 billion...
Mamata Overrules Abhishek Plan On TMC Revamping Through ‘New Wave’
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Buoyed by a clean sweep in the November 13 by-elections to six assembly constituencies, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has reposed faith on veteran leaders. It puts on ice for the time being, the party’s unofficial number two, chief minister Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee’s rejig...
Increasing Share Of Unpaid Workers Among Labour Force Is Ominous
By Krishna Jha Indian economy, which is passing through one of its worst phases in history, seems set to get another major hit in the coming days. The rating agency Crisil has said the GDP growth is likely to fall to 6.8 per cent in FY25 from 8.2 per...
Lessons Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Should Have Been A Part Of Our Constitutional Ethos
By Navsharan Singh On this Constitution Day November 26 how do we reflect on the world’s worst industrial disaster in Union Carbide, Bhopal as we approach the 40th anniversary of this carnage on December 2 and 3? It is a tragedy every Indian is familiar with, but over the...
How Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders Proved Right On His Pre-Poll Views?
By David Moscrop NEW YORK: As the United States — and the world — prepares for another Trump administration, revisiting the question of whether Bernie Sanders could have defeated him in 2016 may seem unproductive. Eight years ago feels like ancient history. Yet reframing the question “Would Sanders have...
INDIA Bloc Has To Vigorously Focus On Seven Assembly Elections In 2025 And 2026
By Nitya Chakraborty The last round of the state assembly elections of the country in 2024 along with the by polls ended on November 20 with the results declared on November 23. The massive victory of the BJP led Mahayuti in Maharashtra polls has given a new confidence to...
A Modi Trump Card Might Come To The Aid Of The Embattled Adani Group In U.S.
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has settled for good the question whether the addition of ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the Preamble of the Constitution was in order. It was immaterial that the Constitutional amendment to do this was passed during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. The court’s decision could not...
Killings Of Four During Sambhal Violence Is Now Wrapped In Mystery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Killings of four on November 24, 2024 during people’s violent protest in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh and subsequent police firing is now wrapped in mystery. A selective leak of the Postmortem report has ruled out ‘police firing caused deaths’, though the report is not made...
Bihar Bypolls Defeat In All Four Seats Reveals Serious Gaps In RJD’s Functioning
By Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to construe that the results of the bye-elections to the four assembly seats in Bihar do not reflect the changing economic and social relations at the ground level and point to the emergence of new political equation. In the just concluded Lok...
