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The Samajwadi Party has undoubtedly seen highs and lows in these 25 years of its existence. However, coinciding with its silver jubilee celebrations on November 5, it is facing its worst ever existential crisis.

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India in a statement today said that the Modi Government’s decision to withdraw Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes would not help resolve the problems of black economy - rather it would open gates for the manipulators to regularize their dirty black money transactions.

The US election results have surprised many who were batting for the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. This is more so in India where many Indians felt Hillary would be good for India. She is known to many Indians because she was the First Lady for eight years, US Senator for another eight years, and Secretary of State for four and all the time she had been perceived as a friend of India.

With the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) resuming its stir for a separate Gorkhaland state in North Bengal and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) opposing it, observers fear a fresh round of tensions and a possible outbreak of violence in the region.

The far reaching and game changing indirect tax reforms—Goods and Services Tax has the potential to push up India’s economic growth by at least two percentage points. This means that India, which is currently the fastest growing economy at over 7.6 per cent annually will grow by 9.6 per cent or even in double-digit with a small and incremental push in other areas of reforms like labour, ease of doing business, infrastructure in the next decade.

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has strongly condemned the continuing police excesses in Chhattisgarh. In the name of fighting the Left wing extremists the Chhattisgarh, police is targeting the tribal people and subjecting them to unimaginable tortures, the CPI has said.

BHOPAL: The MP government has issued a notification for judicial inquiry into the jailbreak and alleged encounter of eight SIMI operatives, four days after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made the announcement. Justice (Retd) SK Pande will head the one-man inquiry commission in Bhopal.

In a sudden recall of Britain’s historical relationship with India, UK prime minister Theresa May, chose India for her first overseas trip outside of the European Union. As she landed in Delhi on Sunday night, she appears to have run straight into the infamous Delhi smog which had reduced visibility. A similar fog interfered with the clarity in the perception about mutual relations of the two countries. Not to be surprised, from the start, the visit appears to have been marked by this difference in perception and divergent direction.

Having made a mess of the Samajwadi Party’s (SP) electoral prospects in UP by sparking off internecine squabbling, the party’s national president, Mulayam Singh Yadav, is trying to make amends by replicating Bihar’s pattern of a mahagathbandhan or a grand alliance in next year’s assembly elections in the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Better late than never. An unconditional apology from Assembly Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan to Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam for not inviting the latter to the inaugural of the year-long celebrations of Kerala State’s 60th formation day has helped to clear the air.