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BJP ideologue S Gurumurthi, a stout defender of demonetisation, has described this widely criticized move by economists as necessary to resurrect the economy from the brink of collapse but admitted that the MSME sector that accounted for 85 per cent of jobs in manufacturing and 70 per cent of exports were badly hit by demonetisation and rollout of GST.

Only a few days left for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The main battle in Madhya Pradesh is between BJP and Congress, however, BSP, SP and Aam Aadmi Party also hopeful that this time they will also be successful to register their presence in the state assembly. Alike Rajasthan, nobody could confidently claim that who is going to form next government in Madhya Pradesh. In Madhya Pradesh, many factors are working simultaneously due to which it is difficult to guess what will be the mind-set of the public during voting? There has been little doubt about BJP's victory in the last three assembly elections. There was speculation just about the number of seats. But now in 2018, conditions are altogether different from the past. Congress is convinced that this time the people will vote them to power, and on the other hand the BJP is confident about its strong organizational structure.

BHOPAL: Congress is facing a three-pronged attack: besides BJP, both Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party have also mounted severe criticism of the Congress. Both the parties have accused Congress of nearly betraying the anti-BJP voters determined to end the 15 year saffron rule of the state.

CHANDIGARH: To awaken and mobilise the people against the real danger to indian democracy; secular fabric, composite culture, constitution and constitutional institutions like judiciary, election commission, even the RBI, the Punjab units of CPI and CPI(M) have organised Joint Jatha March in almost all the districts an main rural and urban centres of the state from of November 15 to of November 21 as part of state wide campaign to culminate in State Political Rally on January 28 2019.

Mizoram, with one of the highest literacy rates in the country, goes to polls on November 28. The state, which has a legislature comprising of 40 seats, is the last surviving bastion of the Congress party in the north-eastern region. The party is in power for the last 10 years with Lal Thanhawla as the Chief Minister. He is one of the tallest leaders in the state who became Chief Minister for the fifth time in 2013. The party is aware that this time the battle is hard as it is fighting 10 years’ anti-incumbency. In the last elections, Congress won a thumping majority in the assembly getting 34 seats with 44.6 per cent votes.

General elections in Bangladesh will be held on December 30. The opposition had boycotted the last elections in 2014, only to regret it later. The ruling Awami League, won 127 out of 154 seats uncontested and scored a cake-walk victory. This time the opposition is not going to make the same mistake. It is going to take on Sheikh Hasina’s party in the absence of its main campaigner, Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Khaleda, a former prime minister, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment by a court in a criminal misappropriation case.

Now that chaos extends from Punjab to Kerala, tweaking it in Jammu & Kashmir had, it seems, become a political necessity for the Bharaitya Janata Party, the world’s largest political organization by membership. But what good that distinction when the BJP cannot run a government in J&K and cannot afford to let other parties to do so?

The photograph says it all. Six women and one Jackass! The ‘Jackass’ moniker given to Twitter CEO Jack Patrick Dorsey by a twitterati Brahmin incensed at Jack holding a placard showing the sketch of a smashing looking girl holding a placard reading ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’, the girl in the placard clearly the beauty of the lot in Jack Patrick Dorsey’s company.

At the beginning of last month, Justice Ranjan Gogoi commenced his term at the helm of the Supreme Court. He was quick to admit that he was “strict” and that he ought to be accepted thus. For those us who have crossed his path these half dozen years, this comes as no surprise. It is a welcome attribute in fact, if one has to truly retrieve an institution that is creaking under the heavy burdens of its past.

CUBA has been blockaded by the United States for nearly 60 years; Venezuela is battling against a raft of US sanctions choking its economy; and Nicaragua is expecting imminent US legislation blocking loans and requiring it to override its constitution and hold early elections. Is Bolivia, and Evo Morales’s socialist government, next in the US’s firing line?