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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Appointment of Rishi Kumar Shukla, MP cadre IPS officer as CBI Chief and state Governor Anandi Ben Patel publicly seeking support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi have caused fierce controversy in the state. During an informal chat with a group of local people including...
Interim Budget Reads More Like A Draft Election Manifesto
By Nantoo Banerjee Full marks to Finance Minister Piyush Goyal for presenting an interim budget that could as well be described as the first draft of the ruling party’s election manifesto. Suffice it say that the political mission of this budget may not be easy to emulate by...
Maduro Gets Strong Support From China, Russia
By Paul Dobson Self-proclaimed “interim president” Juan Guaidó of Venezuela named a number of “diplomatic representatives” to those countries which have recognized him during the past week. The government of Nicolás Maduro, the actual president of Venezuela, along with its international allies are responding to new U.S. oil sanctions...
Madhya Pradesh Farmers Not Happy With Budget
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Central budget evoked mixed reaction in Madhya Pradesh. While BJP termed it as revolutionary Chief Minister Kamal Nath described it as Jumla. Kamal Nath said it is nothing but election budget. With this the last hope for aachhe din is lost. “The general budget...
Modi Has No Choice But To Mellow BJP’s Ram Temple War Cry
By Harihar Swarup Howsoever hard Prime Minister Narendra Modi may try to construct Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, there appears to be no possibility of the temple coming up before 2019 Lok Sabha elections. That was why the PM has stated that the government would abide...
Working Class Feeling Let Down By Modi’s Interim Budget
By Nitya Chakraborty The central trade unions representing both organised and unorganized workers of the country are seething with anger at the step motherly treatment to the entire working class of India in the interim budget of the Modi government presented on February 1. Only the BMS belonging to...
More people becoming homeless in major U.K. Cities
By Ceren Sagir ROUGH SLEEPING rose in most major cities in England last year, government figures revealed on Thursday, with thousands left to languish on the streets as temperatures drop below zero. The findings by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) showed that more than 4,600...
BJP, RSS Going The Whole Hog To Retain Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP-RSS and other organisations are working day and night to retain 71 seats won by the party in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. BJP and Sangh Parivar are working to take on the alliance of SP and BSP on one hand and resurgent Congress with the...
Massive Protests Over Amendment To Citizenship Act
By Dr. C. Sadasiva The North-East is boiling with people there on the streets protesting over the ill-thought out amendment to the Citizenship Act. It is not just the people of north-eastern states but all the democratic and secular minded people of India are genuinely concerned at the way...
Starvation Wages For Mid-Day Meal Workers
By B. Sivaraman They provide food for thousands of children every day in the schools. For this they receive a wage ofRs.1250 per month; or, Rs.42 per day. Unbelievable! In this day and age! But this is the reality of Nitish Kumar’s Bihar. Pointing to 42% of the country’s...
Narendra Modi Has Thrown A Big Political Challenge To Rahul
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister and RSS veteran Narendra Modi has fought many a political battles in his long career but on the eve of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he is facing a big onslaught from the opposition parties, especially the president of the rejuvenated Congress Party Rahul Gandhi...
What to expect from interim budget 2019
Interim budget 2019 is believed to be featuring measures to tackle farm crisis and offer some good tax benefits to middle class. It is not yet clear what tax concessions would be announced on Friday and sources argue some of the sops could be made available during first few...
Falling To The Lure Of Opinion Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Times Now-VMR ‘Tracker Poll’ telecast Wednesday evening projects NDA will get 252 Lok Sabha seats ‘if elections are held today’. The UPA led by Congress will get 147 and ‘Others’ 144. Notably, SP-BSP gathbandhan can hope to notch up 51 of the 80 seats in...
Leadership Tames MP’s Dissident BJP Ex-CM
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Former BJP chief minister Babulal Gaur, who had stirred a controversy last week by disclosing that he has been offered a Lok Sabha ticket by Congress and he may even consider the offer, has been silenced by the central leadership of the party. Gaur was...
Priyanka’s Entry Seen Swaying Urban Voters
By Rahil Nora Chopra Reactions to Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into politics show she is not just a challenge for the BJP but also a message to the anti-BJP opposition that the grand old party still has a stronghold over large parts of the country. With Priyanka’s presence, the party...
Emerging Patterns In Kerala’s Political Kalaeidoscope
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi sounding the poll bugle during their visits to Kerala, political mercury has soared in the state. Consequently, political parties have slipped into the poll mode. Seat allocation talks have gathered momentum. Expectedly, hard bargaining over...
Unemployment Crisis Is Reaching The Stage Of Social Explosion
By Nitya Chakraborty The latest controversial report prepared by the National Sample Survey Office(NSSO) of the Government of India has exposed in a revealing manner the deception game of the Narendra Modi regime which did not allow the survey to be released leading to the resignation of the two...
Shankaracharya announces Ram temple ‘silanyas’ on Feb. 21
Religious leader Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati announced Wednesday at Kumbh Mela the ‘silanyas’ of Ram temple in Ayodhya is planned to take place on February 21 and Hindus are urged to reach carrying four bricks each. Called as ‘ishtika nyas’ (laying of bricks), the planned ceremony was announced at the...
