- India
Contrasting development of Bihar during Manmohan, Modi tenures
Industry and education are the two sectors in Bihar that received a setback in the last decade, though in five of these years, the state had the double-engine government of the Janata…
- News
How different is 2024 campus protests in US from the one in 1968?
While the 1968 students’ upsurge in the United States was against the Vietnam War in which thousands of US soldiers and millions of Vietnamese perished, the 2024 movement on the campuses in…
- Featured News
Election 2024: Unlike now there was no panic among BJP leaders in 2004 election campaign
Whatever may be the result of the parliamentary election of 2024 the fact remains that unlike the 2004 this time the top guns of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party appear to be…
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Voters’ enthusiasm is less this time than in the mid-Corona election in five states 3 years ago
As the voters’ turnout in the first phase of polling for 102 seats this time is lower than that of five state assemblies which went to poll at the height of second…
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How ‘Seventh Century’ Iran befooling 21st Century West
After the February 11, 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran the West-dominated global media ran a non-stop campaign that the ancient-looking Mullahs would dragged the country to Seventh Century AD, that is during…
- Technology
Total censorship not possible; YouTubers, podcasts, websites giving tough time to establishment
May sound strange nevertheless true. Against the general perception the fact is that the opposition’s point of view is now getting more media attention than during the parliamentary election held in 1977…
- Politics
Poll 2024: Self-appointed champions of Muslim creating roadblocks to give united fight
When the then Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav got BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani arrested on October 23, 1990 and when his Uttar Pradesh counterpart, Mulayam Singh Yadav ordered police firing…
- Elections
Confusion grips AIMIM in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
With the first phase of elections due on April 19 uncertainty seems to be gripping All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Bihar. On the other hand, it is not yet clear as to…
- India
BJP’s ‘master-stroke’ converts disintegrated opposition into united a force to reckon with
The opposition parties’ Save Democracy Rally held in Delhi’s Ram Lila Ground on March 31, the second such show after the announcement of the election date, was different in at least a…
- India
Indecisiveness, chaos grip world’s largest party ahead of election in India
Perhaps nothing can be as ridiculous as the idea of Bharatiya Janata Party-Biju Janata Dal alliance conceived on March 5, but had to abruptly undergo abortion on March 22. This development exposes…
- News
Election 2024: From Patna to Mumbai, message is loud and clear; opposition is putting up united fight
The massive rally of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance in Mumbai on March 17 and in Patna on March 3 exploded the media-created myth that only the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party…
- Politics
Election 2024: Congress-SP tie up more cohesive than BSP-SP-RLD combination of 2019
Unlike the Bahujan Samaj Party-Samajwadi Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance of 2019 in Uttar Pradesh there is little scope for trust deficit in Congress-SP tie up this time. This factor may prove crucial…
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Playing with fire: Congress bigwigs Kharge, Sonia, Chaudhary will not attend Ram Temple opening
Sometimes silence speaks louder than words. At the same time taking no stand in itself is a stand. The Congress party must have learnt this lesson from what can be called as…
- News
Poor do not risk life in Dunki flights to US, Europe; they seek jobs in Gulf States
At the very outset one must make it clear that the person who eagerly pays Rs 60 to 80 lakh to agents and suffer enormous hardship and risk to life just to…
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Likely political implications of ED actions against Soren, Kejriwal
Without questioning the actions of Enforcement Directorate and other central agencies against chief ministers of Delhi and Jharkhand, Arvind Kejriwal, and Hemant Soren respectively, one cannot ignore their political implications. As parliamentary…