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By Victor Grossman Beginning from November 3 the day of presidential elections in USA, countless Germans also waited, full of angst, for final numbers from distant Ohio, Wisconsin, Arizona – while many puzzled over the mysteries of the Electoral College. (Does it have dormitories or offer a...
BJP Leadership Is Going The Wholehog In Challenging Mamata In 2021 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar West Bengal is moving towards a personality clash between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Assembly elections. Both have evolved as cult figures. With no tall state leaders in Bengal, the BJP has followed this formula of a...
BSP To Woo Most Backward Castes For Next Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor With the appointment of Bheem Rajbhar as state president of Uttar Pradesh BSP, Mayawati has made it clear that it would concentrate on most backward casts to expand its support base for next assembly polls scheduled in 2022. Mayawati replaced Munqad Ali MP...
The Judicial Standards And Accountability Bill Needs Review
By Yash Agarwal It was in late 1979 when Justice P.N. Bhagwati, in Hussainara Khatoon Vs State of Bihar case, set off the phenomenon that Public Interest Litigations (PILs) evolved to become what it is today. Brought about by a substantial relaxation in the traditional interpretation of...
New Biden Presidency Has To Work For 99 Per Cent Of Americans
By Sen. Bernie Sanders I am very proud of the hard work that the progressive community put into electing Joe Biden as our next president. And let’s be clear: This election was not just a normal election between two candidates. It was much more important than...
Ideological Battle Erupts In Democratic Party After Poor Performance
By Lichi D’amelio After what felt like the longest presidential campaign in US history — amid a pandemic, no less — the Democratic Party escaped defeat. Sort of. The dust has yet to fully settle, but the disasters down ballot point to a House and Senate where...
President-Elect Joe Biden Means A Lot For India
By Nantoo Banerjee India-friendly Joe Biden’s ascendency to the top job in the United States means a lot for India, especially in the area of trade and economic relations as the country is looking for large foreign investments from diplomatic allies to grow its domestic industry and boost...
Nitish Kumar Should Not Have Opted For Chief Ministership After Polls
By Amulya Ganguli The perception of Manmohan Singh as a weak prime minister under Sonia Gandhi’s thumb was a major reason for Narendra Modi’s 2014 success. Now, Nitish Kumar has joined the ranks of feeble leaders who are beholden to a powerful partner who will be calling the...
Bihar Assembly Poll Results Have Lessons For All Political Parties
By Harihar Swarup The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), despite polling almost the same number of votes as the Mahagathbandhan (MGB), has managed to retain power in Bihar. What does this tell us about the state of various political formations in the state? The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)...
Bihar Verdict Has Got Big Relevance At National Level
By Sagarneel Sinha The Bihar verdict has compelled many political commentators to wonder how come the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by chief minister Nitish Kumar of JD(U) was able to come back to power again amid the coronavirus pandemic. After all, it’s a fact that...
Peoples’ Perceptions Not The Ideologies Define The Politics In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Every election has a winner and a loser, but the recently held election to the Bihar assembly has only losers. The first major loser has been the Chanakya of Bihar politics, Nitish Kumar who was today elected as the leader of the Bihar NDA legislator...
Covid-19 Complexities Pose New Challenges To India Govt
By Dr Arun Mitra It is almost a year that the news of first case of COVID-19 in Wuhan in China became known to the world. There has been much research since than about how this virus has grown to spread as a Pandemic. There have been blames...
Exit Of Kodiyeri Balakrishnan: An Opportunity Lost
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is, once again, an unredeeming tale of missed opportunities and timing gone terribly wrong. The reference is to the CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan stepping down from the top party post on health grounds. The party secretary’s exit should have come...
Sitharaman Will Do Well To Learn Some ‘Jugad’ Art
By K Raveendran Jugad is a classic manifestation of Indian ingenuity. The word itself may be north Indian, but both the concept and the practice are pan-India. For centuries, Indians have improvised on simple things to make them capable of handling complicated tasks. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman,...
Modi’s Claim On Success Of Demonetisation Is A Blatant Untruth
By Prabhat Patnaik ON the fourth anniversary of demonetisation, Narendra Modi has claimed that it succeeded in curbing black money. He probably believes he can get away with making this claim because of the passage of time. But most people in the country know this to be...
Indian Economy Is Finally Showing Signs Of Some Recovery
By Anjan Roy In the wake of the pandemic it is the sheer suffering of the most vulnerable sections of society which takes the uppermost priority, the numbers about GDP growth or shrinkage would automatically gets addressed when the activity tends towards normality. In this context employment...
Congress Working Committee Will Now Review Bihar Poll Results
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress party will review it’s poor performance of Bihar assembly election results in the coming Congress working committee (CWC) meeting. According to CWC member Tariq Anwar, Congress party’s weak show prevented the Mahagathbandhan from reaching the half way mark and he said “that there...
Republicans Close To Trump Still Refusing To Recognize Biden Win
By C.J. Atkins When announcing his coronavirus task force on Monday, President-elect Joe Biden forcefully declared, “This election is over.” That reality—already proven in the vote count—is not stopping Republican leaders from joining outgoing President Donald Trump’s dangerous game of refusing to recognize the results. Secretary of...
