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The rise of the Right is not entirely new; it dates from Euroscepticism in the 1980s, but its new manifestation is its presence in governments on its own such as in Italy, Hungary and Slovakia, or in coalitions. In the several European presidential, legislative and Euro-parliament elections scheduled this year, the Right is expected to fare well […]
At the beginning of the Lok Sabha election season a couple of months ago it seemed that the outcome of the 2024 outcome was a foregone conclusion. And, when the Election Commission announced the election schedule, the received wisdom was that the prolonged time-table was designed to enable the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s ace mascot […]
New Delhi: The latest electoral survey done by Kannada portal Eedina has given a distinct advantage to the Congress in Karnataka. Eedina, which was the only media house to accurately predict a Congress victory with 132 to 140 seats in the 2023 state assembly polls, has now said that the state is likely to buck the historical trend of […]
New Delhi: On February 19, Mohd. Shoeb Qureshi, a judo coach from Modasa town in Gujarat, received a phone call from his employer at EduSports, a sports education company that supplies sports educators to various government institutions across the state. He was informed that his services were no longer required. Confused and anxious, Qureshi reached […]
In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, almost the entire global media and pro-government organisations within the Indian industry are lining up to produce documentaries, podcasts, special stories on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his policies, and programmes, besides trying to secure an ever-so-difficult-to-get interview. Unlike when Modi was barred from several western nations, […]
New Delhi: The leadership of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is surprised by the stoic silence of five of its seven Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab since the arrest of party chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on March 21 in the Delhi liquor “scam”. They have so far not uttered a word condemning the […]
New Delhi: In a recent assault on press freedom, the YouTube channel of ‘Bolta Hindustan’, a Hindi news platform which had close to 3 lakh subscribers was suspended. On April 4, the Bolta Hindustan team got an email from YouTube in which it was stated that the video streaming platform had received a notice from the Ministry of […]
Amid increasing questions about the weaponisation of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against opposition leaders and the alleged misuse of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the central probe agency functions in an “independent” manner. “Has the ED been created after we formed the government? No. Did we bring the […]
The clichéd phrase asserted by the Prime Minister of India on every foreign visit, amidst international criticism against his government for alleged human rights abuses, religious intolerance and democratic backsliding in the country is that India is “the mother of democracy”. India is the largest democracy. Indeed the proudest achievement of our nation in its […]
At the Union government’s behest, YouTube has blocked Indians from viewing an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) documentary episode about the government’s alleged role in killing Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the broadcaster said on Wednesday (March 27). YouTube emailed the ABC on Sunday (March 24) saying it had received an order from the Union information and broadcasting […]
The cause behind the accident is being investigated but Maryland’s governor Wes Moore has said the ship’s crew sent a mayday call reporting it had lost power shortly before the collision. All 22 crew aboard a cargo ship that brought down a bridge near the US east coast city of Baltimore on Tuesday (March 26) were […]
New Delhi: Days after the State Bank of India released data on electoral bonds after Supreme Court orders, transparency activist Anjali Bhardwaj has noted that the data shows that the invisible alphanumeric codes on each bond slip was tracked by the SBI – contrary to what the Narendra Modi government had explicitly claimed. In theory, electoral bonds allowed […]
Jalandhar: A letter issued to the Punjab government by the Union health ministry seeking an action taken report over the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment undergone by Charan Kaur, who is renowned Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s mother, has invited sharp reactions from millions of his fans and well-wishers from across the globe. In the letter, which was […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to stay the controversial legislation that removes the Chief Justice of India from the selection panel which will appoint election commissioners. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta heard petitions by Congress leader Jaya Thakur, the Association for Democratic Reforms, and others, questioning the new Chief Election […]
This “update” came after many people on social media pointed out how this colour segregation could be used to target those eating non-vegetarian food. Food delivery company Zomato has come under criticism for its decision to introduce a “pure veg fleet” of delivery vehicles, which will not deliver food from any restaurants that serve egg, […]
Narendra Modi is everywhere this election season; he is campaigning offline, online and would reach the quantum realm in a jiffy if it helps the National Democratic Alliance win those 400-plus MP seats for the upcoming parliament elections. The WhatsApp messages from the prime minister sending us a letter to reply to him with feedback […]
Two of India’s most senior and most highly regarded lawyers have sharply differed over whether the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 (CAA) violates the constitution and also over whether the rules notified on Monday (March 11) should be stayed till the 200 plus challenges to the Act, which have been admitted by the Supreme Court, […]
At least three companies, Kamna Credits and Promoters Pvt Ltd., Innocent Merchandise Pvt Ltd. and Renuka Investment Finance Ltd, that have bought electoral bonds to fund political parties for the elections have featured in the Ministry of Finance’s annual lists of ‘high-risk non-banking financial services (NBFCs)’ for violating rules under the Prevention of Money Laundering […]
Four firms linked to Kolkata-based industrialist Mahendra K Jalan and his family purchased electoral bonds worth Rs 616.92 crore between April 2019 and January 2024, data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI) under the Supreme Court (SC)’s instructions revealed This makes the group the third-highest political funder, after the Tamil Nadu-based lottery firm […]
“SBI in an RTI reply confirmed that these unique numbers were recorded and it is used for audit trail. The finance ministry responded to my story saying that the unique hidden number is a security feature. So both are true, it is a security feature and also used for audit trail.” Even as we try […]
