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By Arun Srivastava Apprehension that Narendra Modi would not provide a level playing ground to INDIA bloc in Bihar for winning the assembly elections has come true. Two latest developments that took place during last forty eight hours are testimony to the plan that Modi and his advisers have...
BSP Supremo Mayawati Aiming To Rejuvenate Party Through Lucknow Rally On October 9
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national President and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is looking forward to her party’s rejuvenation through mega rally on October 9 at state capital on the occasion of death anniversary of founder of the party and dalit thinker Kanshiram. Mayawati has set the...
The Bihar Gig Workers Law, 2025 Is A Bold Step Forward
By Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Madhulika T In late July, the Bihar Legislative Assembly passed the Bihar Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration, Social Security and Welfare) Act, 2025 (‘Bihar Act’) with little fanfare. The Bihar government is now the third state in the country, after Rajasthan and Karnataka, to officially notify...
EAM Jaishankar Is Right: Trump Has To Respect India’s Red Lines
By Nitya Chakraborty Indian foreign policy makers have at last showing some mature understanding of the geopolitics of the post-Trump.2 months if the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s observations at the concluding session of Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Sunday, are any indication. The minister was...
RSS To Focus More On Youth Issues And Indian Culture To Attract Gen-Z To Its Fold
By Arun Srivastava Centenary celebration of RSS has many critical dimensions. While it witnessed a saffron effort to legalise and decriminalise and project the Hindu militant organisation RSS as an organisation truly committed to cultural revival, it also echoed the psychological and philosophical upheaval that Gen-Z triggered in Nepal,...
A Routine U.S. Budget Shutdown Has Turned Into A Major Political Battle
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The fifth day of the 2025 government shutdown dawned over a Washington gridlock in politics, drained of patience, and anxious about the future. What began as a routine budget standoff has now turned into a full-blown ideological battle between President Donald Trump’s populist...
Bihar BJP And State JD(U) Differing On Verification Of Burqa Clad Muslim Women Voters
By Sushil Kutty Bihar is going according to plan for the BJP. The party wants verification of burqa-clad voters for the Bihar election. The demand has been made by party leader Dilip Jaiswal, sparking a row, The RJD has retaliated, labelling the demand as “BJP resorting to the politics...
Kerala Clears Liberal Policy For Investments In The State
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has blazed yet another trail by approving an environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy to implement a governance framework for investments in the State. By doing so, Kerala has become the first State in the country to formulate such a policy, which has been...
India-US Trade Talks On But The Major Irritants Still Creating Deadlock
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In recent months, the prospect of a big trade agreement between India and the United States has been bumped, frozen, tested—and in danger of unravelling entirely. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s public insistence that any deal must respect India’s “red lines” reflects the...
RSS Completes 100 Years After Its Founding – What Next For This Hindu Outfit?
By Kalyani Shankar On October 2 this year, coinciding with Vijaya Dashami, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) celebrated its 100th anniversary, having been founded by Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in Nagpur. The RSS is one of India’s most powerful Hindu nationalist organisations and often faces criticism from the Opposition...
A Week Marking The Worst And Best For India On Global Stage
By K Raveendran It was a week of contradictions for India’s image on the world stage, marked by a curious interplay of critique, affirmation, and manoeuvring. Rahul Gandhi, in his address at Columbia University, painted a picture of India that was dark and distressing, describing the country’s democratic decline...
INDIA Bloc Parties Fear Intimidation And Rigging By NDA During Polls In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava In politically tense Bihar on the eve of assembly elections by early next month, all eyes are set on the hearing in the Supreme Court on October 7 on the fate of the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. The full three member election...
PM Narendra Modi Is Making Political Use Of Job Programmes Before Bihar Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Slowly but surely, joblessness has been emerging as a serious political issue in India, with a dimension that has never been witnessed. Bihar, which is scheduled for poll in November 2025, is witnessing it, and PM Narendra Modi is seen trying to dilute its adverse...
Demand For Two Lok Sabha Seats From Ladakh Is A Tricky Constitutional Issue
By Sant Kumar Sharma The leaderships of Shia-dominated Kargil and Buddhist-dominated Leh district usually don’t have much in common. However, nowadays, the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) have joined hands. They are supporting one another against what is perceived by most of the leaders of...
Will The Two Year Old Hamas-Israel War Finally End By Sunday 6 PM?
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump has set a Sunday 6pm deadline for Hamas to come to its knees after nearly two years of intense warfare, mostly Israeli bombing of the Gaza strip, which has been reduced to several thousand hills of rubble and dust and debris, and buried...
Diplomatic Wins Embolden Syria Interim President To Monopolise Power
By Manish Rai In his maiden speech in the United Nations General Assembly, Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, called for lifting of international sanctions on Syria, becoming the first head of state from Syria to address the gathering in nearly 60 years. This signifies the first appearance of a...
New Pretexts Are Being Added To Rouse Communal Hatred In North India
By Ram Puniyani Communal violence has been the bane of Indian politics. It has been over a century old. The violence is generally a planned one; according to most scholars of this phenomenon. This violence is followed by rise of communal polarization. The scholars have also opined that “riots...
Congress Should Go The Whole Hog With Its Ally RJD In Coming Bihar Polls
By Sushil Kutty There’s this theory going around that the Congress, wherever it has fought elections in recent years, from Haryana to Maharashtra, and now Bihar in the offing, it fought with its INDIA bloc allies more than with the BJP, the party to beat if the INDIA Bloc...
