Nadda repeats charge of Cong bid to divert quotas to Muslims
BJP president J P Nadda on Friday accused the Congress of seeking to...
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Akhilesh files papers from Kannauj, Tej Pratap stays away
Amid much fanfare and chants of “Abki Baar Pichhda Dalit Aur Alpsankhyak (PDA)...
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Govt counters Kharge by detailing promotion of Buddhism
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a follower of Buddhism, lashed out at...
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Stakes For PM Narendra Modi And NDA Are Very High In Third Phase Of Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With second phase of Lok Sabha election 2024 held on April 26, the focus of election campaigns has shifted to the third phase election scheduled to be held on May 7. Significance of this phase of election is that a total of 285 out of...
Low Turn Out Of Voters In Kerala On Friday Favours Left Democratic Front
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a bruising battle for the mind of Kerala’s voters for 20 Lok Sabha constituencies on April 26. The poll campaign saw no quarters being asked for and none given. But the enthusiasm witnessed in the run-up to polling did not reflect in the...
Gold Prices On A Tear Forcing Discounted Domestic Prices To Keep Demand Going
By K Raveendran Gold prices have been scaling record levels and the momentum and magnitude of the price rises have been unprecedented. According to World Gold Council sources, while it took nearly a year for domestic prices to rise from Rs 50,000 per 10g to 60,000/10g, the next band...
What If BJP Wins 370 And INDI-Alliance Lodges 740 Complaints…
By Sushil Kutty “Supreme Court dismisses all petitions seeking 100% verification of VVPAT slip” did not come as a shock. By the time the top court declared the verdict “reserved”, the jolt was a spent force. The big news was the Electronic Voting Machine was here to stay and...
Controversy Over Sam Pitroda’s Inheritance Tax Talk To Hit The Congress Has Little Basis
By Anjan Roy The controversy over re-introduction of the inheritance tax, mooted by none other than yesteryears technology buff, Sam Pitroda, has landed the opposition Congress in a big dilemma in the current course of campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. However the furore created by the Prime Minister...
India Aims To Be In The Top Group Of Global Space Powers By 2047
By Girish Linganna India’s space programme has been in the spotlight ever since the Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the Moon’s southern hemisphere on August 23, 2023. The mission—costing a meager $75 million—covered everything, from the rocket launch to the propulsion system and the lunar lander and rover expenses. This...
BJP’s Election Manifesto For 2024 Lok Sabha Has Special Focus On South Indian States
By Harihar Swarup The central leadership of BJP including the party’s think tanks spent a lot of days in imparting some new dimensions to the election manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha. The Sankalp Patra moved beyond traditional ideological promises to embrace new objectives like infrastructure development and enhanced service...
Rafah Becomes A Break Or Make Proposition For Embattled Netanyahu’s Future
By James M Dorsey An Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gazan enclave of Rafah is a question of when, not if. Not because Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is oblivious to US and international pressure but because it could prove to be make or break for Israel’s embattled leader....
Election Commission Of India Degrades Itself To Modi’s Own Commission
By K Raveendran The Election Commission has forfeited all claims to be the national guardian of constitutional democracy by soft pedalling on the complaints against alleged hate speech by prime minister Narendra Modi in what the whole country was watching as a litmus test for the independence and integrity...
RSS Getting Worried At The Trends Of Voting In Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava The electoral fate of Narendra Modi is in the hands of Lord Ram. But it seems that Lord Ram isn’t too keen to bestow his blessings on him. It is this realisation that he would eventually lose the election that has compelled Modi to rush to...
