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Prime Minister Narendra Modi 14 April released the BJP’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, highlighting his vision for ‘Viksit Bharat’ as he urged the people to give another mandate to his party to shape India’s ‘destiny’ for the next 1,000 years. Named ‘Modi ki...

AAKAR PATEL

Never Forget

Three years ago, on 15 April 2021, the National Taskforce on COVID met for the first time in three months (the last meeting was on 11 January). Cases were now at 216,000 and deaths over 1,100. Two days after that, 17 April, Narendra Modi held...

Land Deal Drama

Abuzz-worthy land deal in Haryana, featuring a senior female IAS officer, her spouse (who happens to be the state information commissioner) and a former additional chief secretary has hit a snag due to some red flags raised by Panchkula revenue officials. It began in September...

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Novel Campaign

As India is gearing up for Lok Sabha polls a few weeks away, a major campaign is being conducted in the electronic media to promote awareness among citizens about the importance of their right to vote. Well known public personalities have been roped in to...

Vanishing Tongues

A most disturbing report has been made public through the collaborative efforts of Australian and British institutions that between 50 per cent and 90 per cent of the world’s nearly 7,000 languages will disappear by 2150. Already, half of the people of the world now...

Rajnath Singh

Boasting Bore

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s latest remarks may be perceived as India’s acknowledgement of assassinations by its intelligence operatives on foreign soil. “If any terrorist from a neighbouring country tries to disturb India or carry out terrorist activities here, he will be given a fitting reply....

Aakar Patel

How Democracies Die

Bangladesh is ‘partly free’ in the Freedom House report of 2024. India and also Pakistan are also classified in the same way. Bangladesh is today, according to the Economist magazine, a one party state. Of course parliament exists and other parties are present. But the...

Babu Under Fire

In the wake of recent directives from the Election Commission, a whirlwind of controversy has swept through Haryana. Just days after the poll panel decided to transfer a senior IPS officer, who happens to be the spouse of a BJP Member of Parliament in the...

Democratic Renewal

In an unexpected turn of events Turkey sends a signal to autocratic rulers of the world that they should not be complacent of their victories and get prepared for reversal of electoral fortunes any time. Turkey’s main Opposition party has got a sudden shot in...

Jaishankar-Modi

Foreign Hand

When two developed countries and then the United Nations react negatively to serious political-legal-constitutional developments in India, it does tend to suggest something is seriously wrong. It is churlish for the Indian government to shrug off such criticism with a swagger that these are the...

 

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