Tag: india politics
The West Cuts A Sorry Figure On The Great Chinese Scrabble Board
By Anjan Roy The United Kingdom is facing a dilemma. It is not able to issue, for the time being, the regimental badges for its military service personnel bearing the imprimatur of King Charles. The reason: Chinese supplies. The UK issues the badges worn...
Mohan Bhagwat In For A Solid Grilling In RSS’ Palakkad Meet
By Arun Srivastava RSS leaders close to its chief Mohan Bhagwat are seeking to suppress news of a ‘rift’ between RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his “true sevak” remark. But events taking place inside the RSS do not validate the message that ev...
Chandrababu Naidu Makes A Significant Difference To Modi’s NDA Govt
By Kalyani Shankar The swearing-in of Nara Chandrababu Naidu as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister was a significant event for Naidu personally, and to his party and for Indian politics, too. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top BJP leaders witnessed the...
What’s The Hullabaloo Over Jobless Indians Joining The Russian Army
By Nantoo Banerjee The government’s strong reaction to the news of the death of two Russian Army-recruited Indian nationals in the Ukraine war asking the Russian authorities for an early release and return of all Indian nationals serving in the Russian Ar...
Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus Set To Enter Bangladesh Politics
By Tajul Islam On June 11, 2024, Reuters published an interview with Mohammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, which has stirred significant political discourse in Bangladesh. Mohammad Yunus, globally renowned for his contribut...
NDA Government’s Ministry Of Labour Has A Difficult Time Going Forward
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has two tough tasks in hand – employment generation and roll-out of four labour codes that the Modi 2:0 government had been keeping in abeyance for the last four years due to stiff resistance...
Hanging In Balance, Fates Of Naidu’s Amaravati And Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has five years to create a capital city out of Amaravati. This is because elections play funny games and one of them is dashing the hopes of sitting governments dreaming of continuity. Who kn...
Huge Water Shortage In India’s National Capital Turning Worse
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s National Capital Territory Delhi is running a shortage of water to the tune of 50 MGD (million gallon) per day. The Water and Tanker Mafia are minting money. People are undergoing unprecedented suffering. Political parties are t...
Prime Minister Modi’s Clay Feet Has A Name: Rural Distress
By Dr. Soma Marla Rural India limited the Bharatiya Janata Party to 240 seats in the Lok Sabha. And but for the “NDA allies”, Narendra Modi wouldn’t have become Prime Minister for a third time. The BJP now depends on its partners for the simple majority i...
BJP Footprint Increases In All Southern States Except Karnataka
By P. Sudhir The overall results of the Lok Sabha election are certainly a setback for the BJP. Getting 240 seats, it failed to achieve the absolute majority it had gained in the 2014 and 2019 elections. Narendra Modi is now heading a National Democratic...
Will Rahul Gandhi Get His Wish To ‘JPC’ Prime Minister Modi?
By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi will likely start his third term as Prime Minister with an onslaught against him. That is if Raebareli MP Rahul Gandhi keeps faith with his charge that Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, had with their prediction of a po...
Mohan Bhagwat’s Muted Warning To Modi Is Too Little, Too Late
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that the NDA’s return to power after a decade in office was a testimony to the good things that happened on its watch. This is beyond comprehension. How could he claim that the NDA governed the country?...
States Need Faster Devolution For Accelerated Development, Critical Spending
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Centre has authorized the release of tax devolution of Rs 1,39,750 crore to states for June, and has tried to appear as if doing a great favour via a statement of the Union Ministry of Finance stating that this would “enable state g...
Centre In A Fix Over ‘Khalistani’ Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh
By Ashis Biswas Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh is the winner from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib parliamentary constituency, putting the central government in a fix. The government appears undecided on what should be done with him. Speculation is rife over whethe...
Desperate Contests Later, Win-Win For Both BJP, Congress In Assam
By Ashis Biswas At the end of the bitterest general elections in recent times, it is only in Assam that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition, the Congress, are broadly satisfied with the outcome. The BJP won 11 out of 14 Lok Sab...