After Bankipur, an Academic Predicts the “Climax” of Modi and the RSS
In the days following the BJP’s loss of its long-held Bankipur assembly seat in Bihar, journalist Umakant Lakhera interviewed Professor Jagdishwar Chaturvedi who served as president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union in the mid-1980s and later retired as a professor from Calcutta University about the political situation facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and […]
BANNED IMPORTED CIGARETTES WORTH RS 1 CR SEIZED IN DELHI
NEW DELHI: Four people have been arrested after Delhi Police seized over 2.82 lakh prohibited imported cigarettes worth more than Rs 1 crore from northeast Delhi in a major crackdown on the illegal tobacco trade, an officer said on Thursday. The seizure was made in two phases, with police recovering consignments from Karawal Nagar and […]
WITH FCRA BILL, BJP RISKS LOSING DELIMITATION BACKERS
NEW DELHI: The corridors of Parliament were abuzz on Wednesday afternoon with speculation over whether the government would push for the FCRA bill this week, or delay it to address the elephant in the room — the delimitation bill. While the government needs a simple majority for the passage of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment […]
RAGE OVER CASTE RESERVATION SPILLS ONTO STREETS
NEW DELHI: From Nagpur to Lucknow to Jaipur and Visakhapatnam, anti-reservation protests are being reported from several cities even as a parallel campaign against caste-based quotas is gathering pace online. With several Assembly elections approaching, the growing chorus against reservation could reopen India’s most politically sensitive fault lines. Over the past few weeks, a series […]
‘No matter how the government tries, it cannot stop me to raise student’s voice’, says Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, 06 August—Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today alleged that the Uttar Pradesh administration has been trying “every possible way” to stop his ‘Chatron Ki goonj’ programme in Prayagraj on August 8 asserting that ‘No matter how the government tries, it cannot stop me to raise student’s voice”. With the venue provider in Prayagraj […]
Cockroach Janata Party to launch nationwide ‘Kya Bolti Public’ campaign focusing on unemployment and other issues
New Delhi, 06 August—Encouraged by the response to its Jantar Mantar protest leading to the resignation of Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on today announced that the party will launch its nationwide ‘Kya Bolti Public’ campaign next month to engage with people across the country, while asserting that […]
DIPKE’S NEW NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN
NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Thursday announced a nationwide public outreach campaign, ‘Kya Bolti Public’, saying the party would travel across the country from September to engage with citizens and make issues such as unemployment, education reforms and social justice central to its political agenda. Addressing the media after a […]
MANY LEADERS JOINING CONG
NEW DELHI: Congress media and publicity chairman Pawan Khera and UP AICC incharge Rajendra Pal Gautam on Thursday welcomed at an AICC press conference a score of leaders joining the Congress, including retired IAS, retired IPS and activists. They are all joining after sensing Rahul Gandhi’s activism. They include Dr Anoop Kumar Ambedkar, who was […]
Shadows Over the Present: Why 1945’s Nuclear Warning Demands Action in a Fractured World
Eighty-one years after the atomic flashes over Hiroshima and Nagasaki transformed two thriving Japanese cities into charred, radiation-soaked wastes, humanity finds itself standing before a dangerously familiar precipice. What was once commemorated as the grim conclusion to a world war has increasingly turned into a haunting prologue to our contemporary geopolitical reality. Today, as active […]
FIRST SP TICKET TO A PANDIT
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has given the party’s first ticket in the UP Assembly elections for Ayodhya seat to a pandit, Pawan Pandey. He announced this on Wednesday at a convention of the Brahmin samaj in Ayodhya. Akhilesh declared the party’s candidate for the high-pofile seat to tej Narain alias Pawan Pandey […]
